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What made you go into law enforcement?
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It will depend on where you work. Where I work, even the calmest least aggressive officers are occasionally pulled into pursuits or high risk traffic stops, i.e. suspected armed felons. We also get a ton of business burglary calls where having your weapon out while searching is normal.
Agreed. Another critical factor is the assignment an officer has.
You are one of the lucky ones then. Good for you!
I do not believe this is the norm. Working in a major metropolitan area for over 30 years, with 9 years in tactical operations, display of leathal force is a justified decision according to most policies I have seen. That said, I cannot correlate the statement of pulling a weapon with police shootings.
Good for you. Because as what I can see from the news, police are drawing their guns even without the necessity. For what? Aesthetic purposes? To show authority or power?
That's true - officer-involved shootings are actually relatively rare, despite their high visibility in the media. In the United States, for example, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, there were 60 law enforcement officer fatalities in the line of duty in 2021, and of those, only 8 were due to firearms-related incidents.
This is true. I hate how the media fear mongers and intentionally only publicizes the incidents across the country where police officers use excessive force.
I've been on the force for 5 years and I have yet to have ot draw my gun
It's sad the some officers are trigger happy and give us all a bad rep. There should be more digging into people's intentions when joining law enforcement.
I haven't even used mine once. They are just some officers who want to ruin our good reputation.
Same here! All thanks to the media's misinformation and the use of excessive force by other officers. No doubt our reputation is bad.
Yeah, I agree. Good for you though if that is the one-time you had to pull out your weapon. It's a much better place if we don't actually.
This is what I tell my students. De-escalation should always be our first response, but you have to be quite fast in order to determine if a certain situation needs the use of a firearm or not.
Respectfully, always should really be replaced with option, in my opinion. It is okay to descalate while lethal force is displayed if the circumstances can be justified.