re: Video of the 12 y/o shot by cops last weekend

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Police isn't even in the top ten of most dangerous jobs.

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But one thing that I'm getting increasingly fed up with is this sentiment that police officers can't be expected to be faced with any amount of danger. It's absurd to me.

That's kind of the point of having them. I always kind of thought that when you became a police officer, you were consenting to the possibility of being faced with a certain amount of risk. That's the reason why you start so many sentences with "I PUT MY LIFE ON THE LINE EVERY DAY...!".

But, if all you can be bothered to do is shoot someone immediately with no attempt to diffuse a situation, than you're not really putting your life on the line. If you're given license to kill any man, woman, child, or dog that looks at you sideways because you wanna make it home at night, then your job *really* isn't all that dangerous.

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