re: #305 Political Atheist

Of course cops are people. But unlike most of us they have been screened, trained and in terms of retired cops, have the benefit of decades of experience. I hope I don’t need a citation to show the validity of training and experience.

You do. You’d need a citation to show how much training, for example, a guy who’d worked the evidence desk for twenty years before retiring really had. Most cops don’t routinely get into ‘tactical’ situations. It’s rare. Cops are much more about investigation than they are about active deterrence, and that’s what they’re mostly trained for.

Trained in the law, trained with the guns, means we will have fewer bad incidents, but to expect a zero incident rate is silly.

I’m not expecting a zero incident rate? I have no idea what you’re talking about here.