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Topic	Why are so many cops such incredible cowards?
CTLM 01/07/20 7:05:30 PM #5:	Dreaming_King posted... It's not ok. I promise you if a cop ever approaches me with such a piss poor attitude, short of me being covered in blood of a person laying at my feet or something, I'm not going to take it. I'm going to demand I be treated like a human and addressed in a reasonable manner before I follow any orders they try give me. I'll do it on principle alone. Good luck with that. Let me know what getting tasered feels like. Most cops aren't bad people. Most cops DON'T want to pull their gun. Nor do they pull it. But why does it seem like cops like to use civilians for target practice? The media. People don't care to hear about the mundane things. People want to listen to the bad stories. The city closest to me has a total of 44 officers. That is including K9 units, FT/PT officers, civilians sworn in to act as officers in some capacity and DEC officers. Excluding the DEC, they cover an area of 4 sq miles and 18k people. There have been 0 shootings by police as far back as I can find. People have shot at the cops, including one who barricaded himself in and had two hostages. He killed himself after an 18 hour standoff. People have fought with cops, including a former friend of mine. He stole a car, broke into some homes to steal things, then led cops on a chase when they caught up to him. He crashed his car into a house, got out and started trying to fight them. 0 shots fired. Cops are taught about "conflict escalation" and often just the appearance of an officer in uniform can bring it down a level. However; coming in already screaming mad to a bad situation only makes things worse. You can easily increase the levels in a conflict. Can't lower them that way. There's definitely bad cops. There's cops who are good people and make bad decisions. There's good cops who make bad decisions. Any rational person is not in a hurry to possibly kill anyone. Look at the suicide rates on police who have taken a life. Even if they don't succumb to depression of taking a life, it is often the loss of a career. Many aren't allowed to be officers anymore. All that training, everything they worked for is gone. The stigma is carried with them forever. The cop in your story may have panicked, but you said the elderly man allegedly shot someone before. He may be old but bullets don't discriminate on who fired them, they'll kill equally. Just because it was in the leg doesn't mean he wouldn't turn around and put one into the cop. Watch some of the videos of cops being shot. See how fast you can react, even if you know it's coming. From concealed to firing takes about a second. Remember: they have the drop on you <cite>CTLM posted [p:932605268] in Why are so... [t:78313110]...</cite> <quote>Dreaming_King posted... </cite> <quote>It's not ok. I promise you if a cop ever approaches me with such a piss poor attitude, short of me being covered in blood of a person laying at my feet or something, I'm not going to take it. I'm going to demand I be treated like a human and addressed in a reasonable manner before I follow any orders they try give me. I'll do it on principle alone.</quote> Good luck with that. Let me know what getting tasered feels like. Most cops aren't bad people. Most cops DON'T want to pull their gun. Nor do they pull it. But why does it seem like cops like to use civilians for target practice? The media. People don't care to hear about the mundane things. People want to listen to the bad stories. The city closest to me has a total of 44 officers. That is including K9 units, FT/PT officers, civilians sworn in to act as officers in some capacity and DEC officers. Excluding the DEC, they cover an area of 4 sq miles and 18k people. There have been 0 shootings by police as far back as I can find. People have shot at the cops, including one who barricaded himself in and had two hostages. He killed himself after an 18 hour standoff. People have fought with cops, including a former friend of mine. He stole a car, broke into some homes to steal things, then led cops on a chase when they caught up to him. He crashed his car into a house, got out and started trying to fight them. 0 shots fired. Cops are taught about "conflict escalation" and often just the appearance of an officer in uniform can bring it down a level. However; coming in already screaming mad to a bad situation only makes things worse. You can easily increase the levels in a conflict. Can't lower them that way. There's definitely bad cops. There's cops who are good people and make bad decisions. There's good cops who make bad decisions. Any rational person is not in a hurry to possibly kill anyone. Look at the suicide rates on police who have taken a life. Even if they don't succumb to depression of taking a life, it is often the loss of a career. Many aren't allowed to be officers anymore. All that training, everything they worked for is gone. The stigma is carried with them forever. The cop in your story may have panicked, but you said the elderly man allegedly shot someone before. He may be old but bullets don't discriminate on who fired them, they'll kill equally. Just because it was in the leg doesn't mean he wouldn't turn around and put one into the cop. Watch some of the videos of cops being shot. See how fast you can react, even if you know it's coming. From concealed to firing takes about a second. Remember: they have the drop on you </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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