Probably because cops are exposed to more lethal situations than your random armed citizen.
No, we are talking about the specific situation where citizen in his own home arms himself not knowing the prowler or the knocker or the invader is a cop.
The citizen hesitates to fire, trying to assess the situation further, or hoping that the sight of his weapon will deter the attacker.
The cop is much less likely to hesitate.
Maybe police training should include the idea that cops creeping around a house at night looks suspicious and scary and that it is not obvious that they are cops in the dark.
Also that someone in a house is likely to be a resident of the house, and is most likely not in a hurry to shoot anyone, AND has a constitutional right to bear arms in self-defense.
Oh, that’s radical.
That applies to numbers, not percentages. Percentage wise armed citizens are much more circumspect with regards to brandishing and/or shooting.
Again: Armed citizens are much more circumspect with regards to brandishing and/or shooting.
No mystery why that is.
They may indeed be exposed to more incidents, but they perform worse on a "per incident" basis. Armed citizens are far LESS likely to do an erroneous shoot than cops.
Cops have been brainwarped by all the mass assault "no-knock" hoopla. They need more and better training, and to get back to actually investigating better instead of ramboing ad-lib.
...and sometimes the police facilitate lethal situations such as the botched raid on a so called heroin house in Houston...that wasn't actually a heroin house. One of the lead officers fabricated intelligence that led to the drug raid that ended up with the homeowner attempting to protect his home against government invaders.
Came out of the back room with a .357 mag after intruders busted into his home. He managed to shoot 4 officer invaders before he, his wife and dog were murdered.
No heroin or paraphernalia were found. Furthermore, after the gun battle, someone discharged another round from outside the home attempting to alter evidence as to how the battle went down.
Houston police dept., instead of being transparent, they closed ranks, slow go’d releasing investigation details. To this day...still not being totally transparent.
One of the lead officers was fired and I believe faced charges. Another officer was caught falsify info.
Mess up.
“ Probably because cops are exposed to more lethal situations than your random armed citizen.”
I doubt that. Being a cop isn’t even in the top ten of dangerous jobs.
And even if it were true that’s no excuse for shooting people who don’t present a lethal threat.
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