Law enforcement officers are killed and injured too often!
What's the deal???
2007-11-08 22:26:30 · 3 answers · asked by jfl 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Police work is dangerous. One of the things that makes it so dangerous is that 99% of the people they deal with are fine upstanding citizens who mean them no harm and only about 1% or less would ever set out to hurt them. The 99% rightfully expect to b treated like the good people they are. The problem is a Police Officer generally can't tell from a glance whether the person falls in the 99% or the 1%. Add to that the people in the 99% who experience a mental/emotional trauma of some type often fueled by alcohol or drugs which will move them briefly to the other side creating a circumstance likely to involve a police response and the fact that police officers are trained to use force as a last resort you have a very high danger potential.
Basically we ask police officers to walk through a human minefield where it is not only nearly impossible to tell which ones will explode they can't even be sure that the mine that was safe 10 minutes ago is still safe. During this daily trip through the minefield we expect them to be polite public servants.
Over a 20 year career the number of times a police officer is attacked with potentially lethal force may generally be counted on the fingers of one hand. When this rare event happens he has to be absolutely ready, or he dies.
Imagine knowing that at sometime during the next 20 years that lightning was going to strike close enough to hurt or kill you and that you had a magic lightening rod on your belt that would save you, but you could only take it out when you were going to be struck by lightning.
If you use the lightning rod and you aren't killed, dozens of people will be allowed to look at your reason for using the lightening rod and if they decide that you wouldn't have been struck by lightening after all, then they take your house, your car, your savings, and your career away from you. Now imagine NONE of these people know anything about weather or what it is like to worry about being struck by lightening.
Now take a walk with your lightening rod on a stormy day and try to figure out whether it is worth your life or livliehood to pull it out. While you are trying to decide hope that you aren't struck by lightening.
2007-11-08 23:25:55 · answer #1 · answered by E V 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No one should be injured, or killed, often.
2007-11-08 23:12:04 · answer #2 · answered by CGIV76 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Like volunteer soldiers, that is a risk they accept to protect us. There are a lot of evil people in this world, sorry.
2007-11-08 22:31:42 · answer #3 · answered by Yo it's Me 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋