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In most cases, the officer never pulls his weapon. In fact, in 5 years in law enforcement, I pulled my weapon a total of 5 times, I have known officers go 20 years and pull a weapon maybe 10 times total.
So it clearly is not a dangerous job.
However, that was some time ago.
Today, unfortunately, things are different.
True the killing of cops is at a 40 year low. What is your point?
This year alone, over 10 officers have been killed in ambush situations and the year is not over. Last year, 16 were killed in ambushes.
Perhaps some people are taking revenge for cops murdering the people they are paid to protect.
The problem is two fold, cops who are on edge because they cant be sure a call or minor traffic stop is not going to escalate, and people who are just plain stupid and try to run over cops with cars, pull guns on an officer who pulled them over for a routine traffic stop.
Perhaps if sandra bland had been armed she would not have been murdered in custody for being a mouthy black woman.
Then there is the final problem, police departments are under staffed. Where two officers were assigned to patrol units in many major cities, you have one. So you have a single officer, first on the scene and has to act not only to keep himself safe, but to protect the public.
So what? You have told us already that being a cop is not all that dangeous.
Hence the rise in dash and body cams, which does a fat lot of good if the officer comes up on a bad situation alone and is killed in the process.
The cameras are to help prevent cops murdering the people that they are paid to protect and planting evidence.
Finally, there is a good reason there seems to be more bad or trigger happy cops. The pay sucks.
Once again you are full of shit. A high school graduate with an agressive attitude and no marketable skills starts out at about $30 per hour in los angeles.
Good cops can make more in the private sector than working for a police department.
Really???where in the private sector do they start out at $30 per hour. Security at the mgm casinos in vegas start out at $12.50 per hour.
Rookies that meet the minimum standards in all respects are getting badges while people with the best qualifications are going elsewhere.
Then you get situations like we seem to be having a epidemic of.
So when people are screaming why cant we get better people in the job, the answer is simple, when the city says they need to raise taxes to pay cops a decent salary, the citizens say NO.
How much do you think a high school grad with no marketable skills besides an assertive attitude should make?
The reason I left law enforcement was the pay. Straight salary and after figuring the hours worked, it boiled down to less than minimum wage. Officers routinely work 50 or more hours a week and the pay is just not worth it.
Which cop shops pay patrolmen a salary? The irs is pretty clear about who can be salaried and who must be hourly?
You got seven hours on patrol, then you got pa[pper work, training sessions, briefings, etc. By the time a day is finished you may have put in 11 to 14 hours.
Again which jurrisdictions pay their cops a salary?
Of course, when one cop screws up, every cop is a screw up, maniac with a badge and a gun, etc.
Stop making shit up
Sorry, but to be honest, many cities and towns get EXACTLY what they deserve.
Like furgistan? Like los angeles that had the doj put the whole lapd into recievership because they were classed as an ongoing criminal conspirqacy?
Like the los angeles sherrifs department that has the assistant chief and the top tier of commanders in the joint? Where the sherrif, lee bacca, is trying to decide if he wants to go to prison for ten years of swallow a .38 cal pill?
No one ever holds rallies for a cop that saved a life, went out of his way to help someone, but one screw up by one bad cop and suddenly you have a riot.
You are full of shit. When a cop actually does their job they are treated like heros for doing what they are paid to do.
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