The Covid-19 Info thread (keep politics out please)

[StateDawg44]

Yeah...officers here start at $14/hr....smh. As long as you employ humans to do police work or any type of enforcement or mitigation you will have the issues and problems that come along with being human. Police officers arent' robots. They have bad days. They have family issues. They have financial stress. Just like everyone else. But they are one of the few positions from which the public expects perfection at all times. It is an impossible standard. The stress is unbelievable. The average age of death for a male police officer is 66 years old. That is almost 25% below the national average. It is due largely to stress impacts on health.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4734369/

This is, again, why I think many officers struggle with PTSD. You pile what's going on nationwide right now to that it gets worse. Imagine literally sacrificing your health and life to try to make the world just a littl ebit better and maybe protect some people only to hear "all cops are dirty" and "all cops should be killed" due to a few idiots who abuse their power.

And the thing is, the disbanding of departments would take the few idiots off the streets and remove their authority. I guess it would take the immunity part away from them also.

But it's for damn sure that those idiots would be replaced with more idiots 10 times over with no real authority to reel them in.