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Originally Posted by Captain Otto
I would think the 32,000 police officers in the MET alone makes this possible.
Police here deal with thousands of mentally ill people every year without shooting them. All, with a few exceptions, are "nuanced" and "de-escalated" and the public never hears about it.
Sometimes space and time isn't on your side and someone does end up getting shot. That is obviously not the goal of any police officer. It is just the reality.
I get that it's fashionable to hate the police at the moment. It's just disappointing that a few have tarnished the reputation of the thousands that do good everyday. And it's a shame that a few seize on those few incidents to push their own beliefs.
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I draw a huge distinction between Canadian police who I have great respect for and the cops in the US who are mostly morons, I dont even blame the US cops, they are little more than untrained security guards with a licence to kill, they are hired by thousands of disparate states and towns and municipalities as cheaply as possible, there training is done as cheaply and quickly as possible, is therefore all but non existent and mostly consists of a lot of phys ed and shooting guns led by ex military for a few months