Police firearms are used far more often as a threat to force compliance thannthey are to defend life.

True That’s highly debatable, especially considering the ‘force compliance’ circumstances are usually in life-threatening scenarios, but you’re still almost certainly vastly overestimating either use.

By disarming most on-duty officers like a civilized country we’d have a more peaceful society because the police wouldn’t feel as empowered to escalate conflicts.

It’s possible, but in the interim there’d be a lot of deaths. The “civilized countries” you’re referring to don’t have the Second Amendment, a culture of violence, or (usually) as much distrust of government as Americans do.

Being a police officer isn’t a particularly dangerous job.

I never said it was.

Honestly I’m not going to bother reading the rest of your comment because you are repeatedly jerking the wheel into a conversation that you prefer to have rather than the conversation we were having and I’m getting bored of it.

So you dialed in the last slice of my comment to argue the one point you wanted to pounce on because you sensed you weren’t winning the original argument. That’s interesting, but not surprising.

I’m not particularly violent, scared, little, or a bitch, but if you’re going to stake the entire rationale and funding behind the equipment and training modern law enforcement has on one guy who had zero say in even one agency, I think that’s pretty funny and also pretty typical of ACABers.

I think I wrote maybe one speeding ticket every two years or so? That was an extremely tiny slice of my job, but again, it is pretty typical ACAB perspective to have no idea what law enforcement does; that’s a fundamental building block of that kind of person - having no idea what you’re talking about but being enraged about it.

The funny part is you kinda answer your own perceived mystery on that bit. Yes, the gun is useless in 99.9% of police contacts (or more); that’s not what it’s for.

The difference is every single place I go that isn’t a police station people talk shit about cops.

Someone who is employed to strategically and often deceptively visit consequence on you - while rarely helping you - will have no shortage of haters.

But at the same time, there are plenty of more adult and rational people who realize law enforcement isn’t worthy of universal and unconditional contempt.

You’re hated, and it’s not the unjustified hate of racism, intolerance, or ignorance. You’re hated because you actively choose to drain society’s resources while stimping on people’s rights. You should be hated.

Only by people that really haven’t thought it through, i.e. people that think “cops” is a monolith and they’re ideas rather than people - antagonists in the game of Fun Crime.

I’ve met plenty of ACABers and without exception they go from “omg u r evil” to “Oh, you’re a human being and law enforcement is more complex than I realized.”

Yeah - you may occasionally do something useful, but you’re a net drain on society and you should be ashamed of yourself and your entire profession for what you’ve become.

There isn’t really any political philosophy that thinks that way other than anarchists, and I view that “society is best when there are no laws” perspective as incredibly naive, so I shrug at your opinion.

Definitely not ashamed of what I did - hope that doesn’t trouble you.

I’m sure they talk shit about you behind your back too; it’s part of the culture of employment alongside radically different positions.

That’s just how people are. You’re neither a visionary for figuring it out, nor particularly insightful for not realizing it doesn’t apply to you.

Again, I think you’re just vastly overestimating how much people hate the police because of the company you keep; echo chambers and such.

Nah, most people aren’t hostile towards the police. That’s a fantasy of yours.

People generally don’t say that kind of thing to cops in the flesh, no. It’s mostly an internet thing.

Never minded being called a pig; pigs are very intelligent, sometimes cute, and usually friendly.

Never minded being called a racist; it’s always out of nowhere based on virtually nothing - because I happen to not be a racist.

The point is parking close to rapidly respond to calls for service.

At least that’s my interpretation, anyway. I never considered people might want to park there off-duty just to shop.

Wal-Mart was a huge generator of calls for service in my patrol area, so much so that our county government had hash things out over multiple meetings and eventually write an MOU with them to stop calling us over $20 shoplifting cases.

His logic is based in the notion that Party must be placed above Country or Principles.

… which is insane, and arguably exactly how the worst governments in history got so bad.

“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”

But as I’m learning lately as I get settled in on Lemmy, some people here will take any opportunity to stretch things to their soapbox.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to defend myself against the accusation from a mod that I’m anti-socialist because I said the USSR wasn’t perfect.

Frankly, I very much believe this is a reading issue more than a writing issue, but I do agree the solution is “give it another pass.”

Right now we have a data set of 1/1 that had issues comprehending what I meant. When both sides of that number tick up, we can talk about the data tending towards that it was poorly written.

Wait, being directly cited as not being akin to the three states I listed is a bad thing?

I couldn’t disagree more.

Don’t let your kids wander into the wilderness unattended and they won’t get preyed upon.

If Rhodesia, the Confederate States of America, and the Third Reich can live forever in the hearts of the far right, PizzaKentuckyBell can live forever in mine.

I want to get off Mr. Reagan’s Wild Ride.

I want to get off Mr. Reagan’s Wild Ride.

I want to get off Mr. Reagan’s Wild Ride.

I want to get off Mr. Reagan’s Wild Ride.