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[–] exohuman@programming.dev 82 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is crazy. Basically, 2 cops arrive and open the door and see the suspect with a gun at his side that was not raised or pointed toward either cop. Without any provocation from any party involved the rookie runs in the opposite direction firing over his shoulder without even looking where he was firing and hit the other cop. After that the suspect fired too.

What a friggin mess. When are they going to start training cops to handle situations like they have a brain and not just fire at everything threatening?

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And it was the cop whose rights were violated, not the guy who they were shooting at for no reason.

[–] exohuman@programming.dev 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, they just gave that guy an attempted murder charge he has to fight off.

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AND they fired the cop who was shot because she apparently forgot to turn on her body cam before going in. The shooting cop experienced no professional repercussions, but the other two people involved did. It’s really special.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nepotism. It's always nepotism. He'll turn out to have a link to higher ups, they always do.

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Nepotism is not required for police union nonsense. He’s just the white guy in the situation, probably

[–] whatisallthis@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Average police officer salary in the US is 60k.

Do you know the average salary in the US? Also 60k.

Wouldn’t you rather have an average job instead of an “I could be killed today” job? We all would.

And so the only people that actually want to take average salary at the risk of death are people that are power-hungry and murder-hungry.

You aren’t gonna get better training at this salary level. You aren’t going to get a system that pays Walmart Manager salary that also has some rigorous hiring and training process that teaches you how to make split second life or death decisions.

This isn’t the secret service. It’s Walmart Managers with guns.

[–] JBloodthorn@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“I could be killed today” job?

Pizza delivery has a higher fatality rate than being a cop.

[–] Ds4zkMjT@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the average salary for jobs that require no education?

[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Delivering pizza is more dangerous than police work.

[–] bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world 2 points 1 year ago

Also they are dumb. Remember multiple us police orgs have iq caps. Not minimums. Caps.

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

like they have a brain

There's your problem.

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shooting people is their job. They're an occupying army and we're the enemy

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

An army is trained, cops are more like a government sponsored gang.