(April 23, 2022 at 5:27 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:And even if it was true it's an extremely poor defense of the police(April 23, 2022 at 5:02 am)Jehanne Wrote: Cops deal with dangerous criminals on a regular, if not daily basis, and so, there is a selection effect going on here. Imagine buying a pair of handcuffs. You as a private citizen could carry them around with you all day; you'll never use them as part of some (legal) citizen's arrest.
Cops deal with dangerous suspects on a sporadic basis (while you didn't explicitly say it, I just want to note that I'm fed up with the notion that copping is a dangerous profession).
But I'm not sure the reasons for shooting people is germane to the OP's point, which seems to be that you're less likely to be shot by a cop than by a civilian, full stop. That's simply not true.
Boru
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