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In the US you have the constant threat of gun-violence, which basically processes all police into a army-band-of-brothers troop in what feels to some of them li
by OneTimePetes 5y ago
In the US you have the constant threat of gun-violence, which basically processes all police into a army-band-of-brothers troop in what feels to some of them like a low level civil war.
You can not remain good police in such a environment and stay alive till retirement unless you are outside of the urban areas.
- ashtonkem 5y agoThis is what cops want you to believe, yes. The statistics do not back this up. Roughly as many cops are dying per year from 9/11 related illnesses as gunfire. In 2020 5x as many cops died from Covid than died from gunfire the year before. The fact that cops demand the right to use lethal force without consequence and the ability to not get vaccinated from something that’s killed 5x as many cops as guns have kind of gives the whole game away. It’s not about public safety or the cops safety; it’s just about power. In reality the group that should be really terrified of everyone is pregnant women, who are much more likely to be shot to death than a cop is. Given the prevalence of domestic violence among cops (estimated as high as 40%), being a pregnant woman married to a cop is probably more dangerous than being a cop.