Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access to military-style gear

Re:Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access ... by Retric on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:30PM (#23396546)

The number of actual cops shot in the US is extremely low. Logging is five times as dangerous as police work and the most dangerous part of being a cop is the amount of driving they do.

Even miscellaneous agricultural work is more dangerous and they make 24k/year.

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Re:Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access ... by bananabreakfast on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @06:42PM (#23397357)

And yet cops in the bay area always pull over everyone with two to three police cars and don't leave their car until the backup arrives.

This happens every single traffic stop.

Clearly getting their head blown off is on their mind.

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Re:Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access ... by Gibbon1 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:12PM (#23397640)

> And yet cops in the bay area always pull over everyone with two to three police cars and don't leave their car until the backup arrives.

As someone that has spent 55 years in the Bay Area this is false.

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Re:Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access ... by tharne on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:33PM (#23396585)

I'd say that any number over 0 is not Ok. That would be like saying only a very small percentage of the population gets killed by cops. Again, anything over 0 == Not Ok. And just because you can cherry pick a dangerous job that happens to be more dangerous than being a cop doesn't make being a cop any less dangerous.

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Re:Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access ... by Retric on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:42PM (#23396682)

If you want to save lives, then armed cops are killing far more people than cops are being killed every year. So, removing guns from a cops normal uniform would very much save lives.

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