[dickbasedregex]

Lucky you.

Even with family as law enforcement, I've never trusted police. As a vet I'm disgusted by their lack of training and quickness to shoot first and ask questions later. Last I checked the average is 32 dogs shot by US cops a day. I don't even need to delve into the refusal to wear body cams, race issues, etc. etc. American police have not given Americans any reason to assume they are ever on the same side.

Eighteen year old infantrymen, who have an infinitely greater chance of danger, have more resolve and professionalism than American cops. I'd trust that 18 year old ground pounder over a cop any day over any thing.

[peteretep]

I get the idea that people who join the police in the US do it for the authority, where police in the UK are well aware that 95% of the authority they have is "by consent" of those they have authority over.

[dickbasedregex]

As an American that's always been my feeling. Bullies and petty people seem to be drawn to police work in the US for that "authority."

An idiot with authority is a bad time for everyone.

[jiojfdsal3]

32 dogs shot a day? There are 1,100,000 police officers in the USA. The vast, vast majority of police officers aren't shooting dogs.

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The vast, vast majority of police officer aren't shooting blacks under super fishy circumstances but it still happens.

You tell me how many dogs, blacks, children, wtf-ever. is required before it's OK to 1) Earnestly hold police and the system accountable and 2) To have a healthy wariness, if not outright distrust, of cops and LEOs in general.

Seems to me like we've passed those thresholds and then-some a while ago.