[Captain Otto]

Originally Posted by 81MC

Absolutely.

The rate of these terrible outcomes to tots police/civilian interactions is very, very low. Painting the thousands and thousands of officers with the same brush is totally unjust.

And sure, an officer wants to serve and protect. But the idea that they have a hero complex and deserve the risk of their life being less valuable than those they interact with? That’s ####ed.

Like, do firefighters also have some sort of hero complex and deserve to run into death trap buildings that don’t meet fire code because, we’ll, they want to be hero’s they can lay their life in the line?


I take serious, serious umbrage with someone disparaging all the people who take on these exceptionally difficult roles in society. It’s really easy to smack talk these people I suppose, but I’m sorry, there are people who are just more important, more valuable, and more serving to society than most of us. If that’s an affront to you, deal with it.

Police, fire, EMS, nurses. People who generally don’t get to drive around in S-class Mercedes for their efforts, but routinely deal with situations most of us couldn’t handle. A little bit of empathy for those masses if you can’t muster the respect, is in order.

Great post.

I know you've explained it before but damn, hard to connect this post with your user name!!