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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
around 40 cops were shot and killed in 2019, they shot and killed around 1000 citizens in the same period,
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Ok. But we were talking about the job and what they’re paid to do.
If the job of being a police officer was ten times more dangerous in the UK, and it still paid the same money, do you think that might affect the makeup of who chose to become police officers?
And if police in the UK were
130 times more likely to be killed by guns than they are currently, do you think that might change how they approach dangerous situations?
U.S. law enforcement clearly need better training and a change in culture. But as long as the U.S. has hundreds of millions of handguns in glove boxes, under seats, and stuffed into the pants of half the people in the country, policing in that country will be fundamentally different from policing anywhere else in the developed world.