• @Allonzee
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    In some developed nations, even the beat cops are disarmed and only their equivalent of SWAT response teams are.

    Law enforcement are seen as community emmisaries, you can walk up to a British cop in a corner with no fear of them shooting you over a misunderstanding.

    This actually helps those police to be seen in a positive light by society.

    I see this as an appropriate compromise. Mitigates the potential for casual police shootings with only 1-2 law enforcement witnesses.

    But American police, while paid a lot for very little education, don’t want to take ANY risks despite explicitly being paid to. They aren’t even in the top 20 most dangerous professions in the US.

    https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-united-states

    They use their militarized equipment to shoot until everyone’s dead, then ask the corpses questions, instead of doing their jobs and protecting citizens with their lives if necessary. That’s why you get paid booku bucks with a high school diploma, at least in theory.