About 50 years ago at the end of the 60's police training changed to the assumption that survival of the policeman if the most important factor in gun use, it was a result of social changes in the US that set up an 'Us versus Them' feeling within the police, the rise of SWAT training in LA and Vietnam probably didnt help, taking cops of the street and putting them in cars was also a factor
At this point in most of the US the cops are an army of occupation doing what any occupying force needs to do, cowing the population into submission
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