Quote Originally Posted by Maroonthirteen View Post
This is true. People maybe had bolt action hunting rifles, shotguns or a revolver. We have way more automatic pistols and rifles on the streets than we did back decades ago. Also people are much quicker to use their weapons and blame the police. The odds of police being shot at traffic stops and domestic calls are far far greater today.

Just walk into any gun store now a days. I go to a popular gun store in Desoto County occasionally. The long guns and carbine (of aol calibers)inventory they had in there.... it made me feel like buying a pistol was pointless.
Fun fact: being a police officer is actually the 22nd most dangerous career field after things like being a garbage man, roofer, traffic cop, USP delivery driver, etc. (https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748...-united-states)

FBI places it as the 18th most dangerous job. (https://usafacts.org/articles/how-ma...-line-of-duty/)

The number of people shot to death by police has been steadily increasing (https://www.statista.com/statistics/...olice-by-race/) despight the public not getting more violent -based on homicide data at least (https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s...ta-table-8.xls).

Police are more than 20x as likely to shoot someone to death as they are to be killed themselves, and that rate has been climbing for years. About 16% of people shot and killed by police were unarmed (https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom...-as-in-whites/) which comes to roughly 160 a year.... which is 3x the number of cops killed by gunfire.

if you have different stats please share. I'm not a liberal and I don't trust a lot of stats I see because our media is awful. However, when it comes to policing I truly can't even find stats that make it seem like cops are actually justified in "fearing for their life", or that they're always exercising enough caution before pulling the trigger. I also see no evidence that things are "getting worse for cops" over a 5, 10, 30+ year timeperiod.

If a roofer is scared of heights and is violent with others due to the stress of "fearing for his life", we say "sorry, but you should probably get a different job". But cops? Despight their cob being significantly safer than the roofers, we DO allow the cop to be violent as a 1st response due to that fear. And we call then heros for doing it too. I'm saying we need to hold our cops to a higher standard. They get away with behaviors we'd never allow from those working in the ACTUAL dangerous professions. UPS drivers are more likely to die than cops. But if a UPS driver pulled a gun and shot another driver because "I feared they were going to swerve into me" we'd say they should go to prison. When a cop shoots someone unarmed, "he made a motion that seemed like he might be going for a gun" is accepted as valid reason. It's ridiculous