That your stated attitude while on the job (I'm going home safe, no matter what) leaves a lot of room for errors. For instacne, what if the guy in your situation came out of the car with a cell phone in his hand? What if he had a dark colored wrist brace or a cast?
That your stated attitude while on the job (I’m going home safe, no matter what) leaves a lot of room for errors. For instacne, what if the guy in your situation came out of the car with a cell phone in his hand? What if he had a dark colored wrist brace or a cast?
It was dark. I ordered him out of the car with empty hands. I am supposed to risk that he (a murder suspect) disobeyed my order on accident?
Let alone that policing is not even in the top ten dangerous jobs in the U.S. and barely in the top 15 by accounting for injuries which include wrecking their own cars, tripping on ice, going to the ER for being overweight and having a heart attack while training (All three of these are the cause of death of the 4 local “heros” in the area I now live, and the only deaths in over a dozen years).
Being a cop is not a dangerous job. Being an officer going into a dangerous area, say South Central L.A. is...