- You have the advantage of being able to legally carry a gun pretty much wherever you want
- You have the advantage of broad and sweeping immunity from prosecution if you use that gun to take another life
- You have the advantage of an entire police department ready to back you up or come to your assistance at a moment's notice
- You have the advantage of a criminal justice system that is largely supportive of and deferential to police in general
All of those things give you a distinct advantage in dealing with criminal elements of society, and they do so by design. The members of the general public, by contrast, have none of those advantages when they encounter criminals. So instead of whining about the purported "risks" of your job be thankful for what it gives you. The rest of us don't get to enjoy the privileges you do.
So in order to protect the right of the murder suspect to NOT follow the orders of a policeman, the policeman should be prepard to die, rather than shoot?
“So instead of whining about the purported “risks” of your job be thankful for what it gives you. The rest of us don’t get to enjoy the privileges you do.”
I respectfully acknowledge the validity of your point about the advantages that cops enjoy, but I think it’s only fair to consider the risks that they must (unlike the general public) endure on a routine basis. For example, cops must frequently deal with domestic disputes, which can be very unpredictable, and can quickly get very ugly and dangerous. Near where I live, we recently saw this in Lancaster Texas, where, last month, David Brown Jr. (who happened to be the son of the Dallas Police Chief), fatally shot one bystander, then fatally shot an officer arriving at the scene. The officer had all of the advantages you listed, but this wasn’t enough to save him. Fortunately, other officers shot the suspect to death before he was able to kill anyone else.