American police shoot suspects far more than British or French or German police do. I don’t think this is due to bad training, although that may be a factor. Rather it is due to the prevalence of guns. When a British officer arrests a suspect, she or he assumes that suspect won’t be armed. It is the same in Germany or Italy or Japan.
On the other hand, when an American police officer arrests as suspect, it is quite possible, even likely, that the suspect will be armed, often with very dangerous weaponry. How many times in the past few months have you read about armed individuals threatening cops American civilians own as many guns as civilians in all the other countries in the world combined.
If you really “Back the Blue,” then you ought to be backing gun safety requirements and gun limitations. Instead we are getting people pushing “2nd Amendment sanctuaries.”
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