The vast majority of interactions with the public can be taken care of with non-lethal means, tasers, etc… (if any are even necessary).
Lethal weapons should be in a remote lock holster in their cruiser, and must be unlocked remotely by a supervisor on a per-case basis depending on the facts at hand (suspect’s history, potential risk, etc…)
Maybe that’s pie in the sky optimism, I don’t know.
what does that have to do with being a cop though? plenty of civilians face that reality every single day and we’re just supposed to deal with it.
that’s really just a ‘shit happens’ scenario that just happens to involve the police.
it would make more sense to examine why this is an everyday reality in the USA and take steps to fix the underlying issue.
but, you know…even when a problem doesn’t involve the constitution you aren’t allowed to fix it. we’re the best, don’t question it.
I loathe the way things are in this country. Please don’t put words in my mouth to the opposite effect. I don’t own a firearm and veyy deliberately choose not to.
However, you go ahead and convince cowboy hat wearing rednecks with more pickup trucks than teeth that the system is fucked and their guns are part of the problem.
And adding barriers to voting is also very obviously not the answer either. Its not that I don’t want to change the system or think it can’t or shouldn’t improve. I’m living inside the shit hole. I smell it every day.
There’s also still reality, and we must all accept it like it or not. Decidedly not here.