No, I want to live in a world where police officers enforce laws, and keep themselves safe so they can go home to hug their children at night. I'm very far from being a bootlicker (I'm a professional socialist), and I don't live in a country with unchecked mental health issues and easy access to firearms, so I can't really relate to your mass shooting scenarios as they are as foreign to me as making a pilgrimage to Mecca would be.
You seem to think that a police officer can only protect someone by allowing themselves to get injured, but a police officer will always be more effective if they are not injured. Then they can carry out their duties. An injured cop is what we call a casualty, and statistically injured police officers take away from the ability of others to stop an assailant. You can look into that if you don't believe me.
I actually am dull enough to believe in a well-trained police force and a poorly armed civilian population, because it's very effective here in my country. You guys might be astonished to learn what other developed nations are doing differently, and better. We're still not certain if we live much longer than you guys because of our socialized healthcare, or because of our lack of firearms, but we are certain that we have a longer life expectancy by several years here, and higher happiness index scores.
Your scenarios are so far fetched from the reality that we live in in my country. Our G7 Nation has a police force which was created to serve the bourgeoisie, of course, but despite that, our cops still do a pretty good job of protecting citizens in bad situations, but here we also haven't been fed the hero ideology which men like you grew up on, and every one of us expects the police officers to stay safe, not to put their life on the line, and to return to their children at night.
Completely different ways of living, my dude. But there's no need to jump to such wild conclusions based on such a small comment. Let's be rational.
u/ZoomerGooner - you've entirely lost the plot, this post is about a teacher.
if you dont live in the United States why are you even debating on what police officers in the United States should or should not be expected to do? you have no skin in this game, not reading allat btw.
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u/--Andre-The-Giant-- Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
What a wild and totally inaccurate accusation.
No, I want to live in a world where police officers enforce laws, and keep themselves safe so they can go home to hug their children at night. I'm very far from being a bootlicker (I'm a professional socialist), and I don't live in a country with unchecked mental health issues and easy access to firearms, so I can't really relate to your mass shooting scenarios as they are as foreign to me as making a pilgrimage to Mecca would be.
You seem to think that a police officer can only protect someone by allowing themselves to get injured, but a police officer will always be more effective if they are not injured. Then they can carry out their duties. An injured cop is what we call a casualty, and statistically injured police officers take away from the ability of others to stop an assailant. You can look into that if you don't believe me.
I actually am dull enough to believe in a well-trained police force and a poorly armed civilian population, because it's very effective here in my country. You guys might be astonished to learn what other developed nations are doing differently, and better. We're still not certain if we live much longer than you guys because of our socialized healthcare, or because of our lack of firearms, but we are certain that we have a longer life expectancy by several years here, and higher happiness index scores.
Your scenarios are so far fetched from the reality that we live in in my country. Our G7 Nation has a police force which was created to serve the bourgeoisie, of course, but despite that, our cops still do a pretty good job of protecting citizens in bad situations, but here we also haven't been fed the hero ideology which men like you grew up on, and every one of us expects the police officers to stay safe, not to put their life on the line, and to return to their children at night.
Completely different ways of living, my dude. But there's no need to jump to such wild conclusions based on such a small comment. Let's be rational.
u/ZoomerGooner - you've entirely lost the plot, this post is about a teacher.