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They also take part in community pickup games and are trained to interact with the community. 99% have never fired a weapon in the line of duty. There are man
by ipaddr 3y ago
They also take part in community pickup games and are trained to interact with the community. 99% have never fired a weapon in the line of duty.
There are many more people who would kill you because they don't care or think they will be caught or forgot it all in the moment. You would be surprised how little your life means when someone needs a fix or a lot of money is available.
What we have here is the tv effect. Every cop show features a bad cop. Cop murdering black guy results in huge protests where 10 times more people get murdered by other protestors.
Your chances of getting killed at the protest is much greater than being murdered by the cops who everyone is protesting against
- woodruffw 3y ago> 99% have never fired a weapon in the line of duty. This is a misleading fixation: the police can beat, brutalize, and kill people without ever firing a gun. In fact, mistreatment at the hands of the police is probably overwhelmingly physical in nature. The fact that your community has sporty cops does not meaningfully change this truth. By and large, the police in the US are subject to extremely positive media portrayals. I, like millions of other Americans, grew up watching Law and Order (the good one, not SVU); the police in these shows are shown, with sparingly few exceptions, to be virtuous public servants. Such positive fictionalized portrayals have been instrumental in the public's overall opinion of policing[1], even through real-world evidence to the contrary. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230609092852/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/197060.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20230609092852/https://www.ojp.g...