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Originally Posted by pylon
Police officers in the UK diffuse situations like this all the time without fire arms.
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In North America, I think firearms have become a substitution for having stones and being physically fit.
I'm always surprised at how many police officers I see that are terribly out of shape and likely couldn't chase a suspect or avoid an attack if they needed to, without having courage in a holster.
Honestly, police should only be accepting applicants that are both in top physical shape, able to stay in shape and can show that they are mentally strong enough to be in danger without automatically resorting to using a firearm. And to be fair, they should probably pay them more to.
A little while ago when that officer shot that suspect in the back when he was fleeing, that officer looked pretty out of shape and didn't even attempt to catch him. I was also surprised when they made his job application public, how amateur it looked. It looked like a highschool student applying for a job at Wal-Mart.