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Cops have a stressful, often life-threatening job, no doubt. But so do a lot of people. My family has a history of working in psychiatric lock-ups with extremely violent mentally ill and developmentally abnormal patients, most of whom are being held because of murders and rapes they've committed (usually of their own families), and who would murder you if they had the chance/inclination to do so, because they simply don't know any better. The nurses don't carry firearms, they're trained with a few restraining grappling technique and a lot of deescalation tactics. They don't even have tasers. Put an armed cop in that situation and you'd have a ward full of corpses within a few days. Hell, put a regular prison guard in that situation and you'd have a similar outcome. But my family members aren't MMA experts, and have never been [seriously] injured in their job. They've been properly trained, that's all. Cops are trained like they're being shipped off to 'Nam in 1969 to fight an unseen, non-uniformed enemy.
"Often life threatening" is not likely to be true. Sometimes, yes. Often? No chance.
‘Being a cop isn't in top ten deadly professions.’
Yeep. It's in the 20s
https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/civilian-occupations-with-high-fatal-work-injury-rates.htm
https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-united-states
This was interesting. Most of these jobs are dangerous because they increase your exposure to car accidents it looks like.
I had heard that most police officers deaths are from car accidents, but this says "violence by other people or animals". Must be just their category name, not because animals are a significant danger. That category is shared with one other profession in the top 25 most dangerous, supervisor of mechanics at number 19. I guess bossing around people with a lot of potentially dangerous tools at hand goes bad fairly often.
Reddit comments mention that something like a third of policemen deaths in the USes are from car accidents.
P.S. And that the stats are inflated by listing cops that had heart attacks or whatever while on the clock.
Dutch cops often walk around without guns.
Definitely a boys club and training issue in America.
The Netherlands doesn't have more guns than people though. The US does.
Edit- this is not excusing cops shooting people, I am just saying that gunless cops makes more sense in a country where everyone isn't armed to the teeth
Delivery drives have a more dangerous job than cops
I'd probably carry a gun as a delivery driver in some neighborhoods too
Ironically every corporation bars you from doing that because they would be liable. There are probably some small mom-and-pop places that advise drivers to carry. And of course plenty do despite the rules against it.
Switzerland has almost as many guns as people. But they are treated as a tool, no one really wants, not like a dick extension
And why is everyone so obsessed with guns in this same US of A? I wonder if one begets the other. People have been fearing the police in America for a looooooooonnnnnnng time. Also, see the post you replied to. Just because you're in the shit, doesn't mean you need all the guns and ammo on the planet to do your job. If it's a serious violence threat, then send in the swat. Patrol should be using guns as an absolute last resort, not a first inclination. The mentality is skewed, but no surprise there given the rest of things going on down there.
That makes it more dangerous for the us cops but doesn't excuse shooting people without guns.
What happens when restraining/de-escalation tactics don't work and the unarmed civil servant gets raped and/or murdered?
A lot of people never see the inside of a psychiatric ward because their behavior is too dangerous for them to be brought in safely. If it was up to a nurse to apprehend them, some people will just take advantage of the opportunity.
Fuck cops. No sympathy for traitors