The videos you see are curated to showcase police brutality. In a country with 300 million people and as many guns, its not hard to come up with a video a day depicting things going wrong. That is not the norm though. No one is going to post videos of polite, professional interactions, even though those are, obviously, the vast majority of cases.

There are 700,000 human police officers in the United States. This is a huge bell curve of behavior and interaction. The most reasonable suggestion I have heard is a federal database for police complaints and firings, to help identify patterns and bad actors.

Sure, but the police unions and departments protect the bad police and the prosecutors refuse to prosecute them. If we had a video of a teacher groping a student a day and nobody did anything about it, we'd lose our minds.

It's because these cops are bad people and there is no accountability. I'm sure in some departments this sort of thing is encouraged, many it's excused. We can agree that bad police should be fired and charged right?

I don't get the gun angle, people have always had guns in the US. There are fewer households with guns now than there were since the 1990s.

Someone did a survey of 15K police officers and gun restrictions in 2013 here:

https://www.police1.com/gun-legislation-law-enforcement/arti...

And when it comes to finding ways to reduce gun violence and large scale shootings, most cops say a federal ban on so-called “assault weapons” isn’t the answer.

More than 91 percent of respondents say it would either have no effect or a negative effect in reducing violent crime. This is an overwhelming response by those whose job it is to actually deal with this issue on the front lines.

More than 91 percent of respondents support the concealed carry of firearms by civilians who have not been convicted of a felony and/or not been deemed psychologically/medically incapable.

A full 86 percent feel that casualties would have been reduced or avoided in recent tragedies like Newtown and Aurora if a legally-armed citizen was present (casualties reduced: 80 percent; avoided altogether: 60 percent).

This is easily explained by the fact that police are better educatied about gun violence statistics.

Most gun deaths are by handguns, not "assault rifles". They also know that a federal ban can be negated by 2 minutes of work with a drill bit.

Similarly, police aren't afraid of people pulling assault rifles out of their glove boxes and pockets.

It's a biased sample. American police forces attract gun enthusiasts who want to carry and use guns on people. Go to a police forum and see how often they share and gush about weaponry and moan about what their jurisdiction won't give them. It's like kids in a playground. These are people who write "you're fucked" on a gun they use to kill an unarmed person.

> The videos you see are curated to showcase police brutality

What videos did this person see, that you are referring to? Are you saying there isn't evidence of a problem of police brutality? I recall a survey of Black NY city police; most of them had been harassed when off-duty.

Cops must be under incredible amounts of stress, operating in an environment where anybody could be (legally!) armed. Maybe they start out wanting to improve the world and throw that thought out the window once the first bullet goes flying pas their heads.