I believe most are going to agree this is a yes. I wish they were trained more appropriately in how to defuse sticky situations. I believe many tragic situations would be helped with better training.
It has nothing to do with training. You cannot train someone to deal with a crazy physco. Like I said in a previous post the nicest person in the world can go to the most evil b*tch physco in .02 nana seconds. The split second things do not go their way. You do not know what people are thinking or what they will do.
I don't think it is no more dangerous for the Police than it is for the citizens of any given state. So many Police persons have gotten away with actually getting away with killing people and they walk away unscathed.
Exactly. Thus the reason so many have lost respect for law enforcement. Even law abiding citizens. A local officer in the town I grew up in posted a rant on facebook about how "people needed to respect him" blah blah blah...
I am thinking YOU need to do something to earn that respect. For the most part the cops do not respect the people they deal with. And it is not always a criminal. I read a story about a cop that walked into a man's home and shot him, the home owner, because he THOUGHT he was at a home invasion. The door was unlocked so he assumed the first person he saw broke in. Turns out the cop was at the wrong house. The person who called 911 was just a passerby walking his dog and thought it was suspicious that a man knocked on the door and stepped out into the yard to wait for the door to be opened. The police responded to the wrong house, and their was not anything to respond to anyway. Anonymous calls to 911 such as this one do not need to be taken seriously.
As for the home owner who was shot, I would sue for millions. The cop - he needs to be fired. If his response is to answer a call and shoot the first person he sees then obviously he cannot handle the job.