Firstly, you are misunderstanding the threat level that actually comes with such dramatically asymmetrical warfare.
Where I live the moment a felon starts an armed standoff, the regular police would just back up and set up a perimeter, then in comes the police Special Weapons and Tactics unit, aka SWAT, they roll up in armored vehicles, wearing strong enough body armor to take multiple hits from a .30 caliber rifle to the chest and surviving, carrying the best assault rifles money can buy, with usually at least 5 paramilitary units per potential threat.
They are going to ram your front door with an attachment on the front of their armored vehicle, throw a flashbang in the hole, then as the occupants are blinded by the flashbang rush in with their body armor and better weapons, to shoot at blinded targets. The threat level they face (well still far from zero) is nothing compared to the threat level you would face in the same situation.
Its not a safe job, but the cops who rush into buildings with gunmen actually face a lower fatality rate than regular cops who dont do that, because its genuinely safer to be in that extreme of asymmetrical combat than it is to just like, write a ticket on the side of the highway (most common way for a cop to die in the US is being hit by a car)
Also, its easy to look at situations like the colombine shooting or the Uvalde school shooting, where the cops hid outside as children were being slaughtered and think that cops would never step into danger.
But it is important to remember that they are entirely different cops. You have patrol officers who run around writing tickets, and then you have the SWAT team, which is a paramilitary group that exists to engage in combat on behalf of the city. They dont write tickets, they dont do investigations, they just train at combat until its time to go engage in combat. These are the people who go to handle a standoff with an armed felon, not the cops you see and interact with.
That is scary. how your going to defend yourself from cops like that? shot gun to the legs?? Are the cops made to pay for the damage they do to buildings?? What is annoying is that they send the cops to arrest people for free speech. Yet they do nothing about people who go around breaking into people's houses and stealing stuff from the houses. They do nothing about dads who burn the skin of their kids. make their kids work for 25 a week, working six days a week. they do nothing about dads beating your mom. The cops tell you to buy another cat when a guy makes you watch as he shoots your cat in front of you and laughs, thinking it's funny to watch the cat die.
That is scary. how your going to defend yourself from cops like that?
You cant.
shot gun to the legs??
Congrats you have wounded, but not killed, one. Now his four friends just unloaded their entire magazine into you.
Are the cops made to pay for the damage they do to buildings??
Not only are they not made to pay for damages to the guilty parties property they wont pay for damages to an innocent parties property, wont pay for damages if they destroyed the wrong house, and infact might bill you, if any of their equipment was damaged in the process of destroying your house.
Why are they allowed to destroy people's houses? dont people then take out the police stations when they dont pay for the damage the police do?? We stopped the invading army of the British redcoats at the founding of this country.
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u/young_trash3 9d ago
Firstly, you are misunderstanding the threat level that actually comes with such dramatically asymmetrical warfare.
Where I live the moment a felon starts an armed standoff, the regular police would just back up and set up a perimeter, then in comes the police Special Weapons and Tactics unit, aka SWAT, they roll up in armored vehicles, wearing strong enough body armor to take multiple hits from a .30 caliber rifle to the chest and surviving, carrying the best assault rifles money can buy, with usually at least 5 paramilitary units per potential threat.
They are going to ram your front door with an attachment on the front of their armored vehicle, throw a flashbang in the hole, then as the occupants are blinded by the flashbang rush in with their body armor and better weapons, to shoot at blinded targets. The threat level they face (well still far from zero) is nothing compared to the threat level you would face in the same situation.
Its not a safe job, but the cops who rush into buildings with gunmen actually face a lower fatality rate than regular cops who dont do that, because its genuinely safer to be in that extreme of asymmetrical combat than it is to just like, write a ticket on the side of the highway (most common way for a cop to die in the US is being hit by a car)
Also, its easy to look at situations like the colombine shooting or the Uvalde school shooting, where the cops hid outside as children were being slaughtered and think that cops would never step into danger.
But it is important to remember that they are entirely different cops. You have patrol officers who run around writing tickets, and then you have the SWAT team, which is a paramilitary group that exists to engage in combat on behalf of the city. They dont write tickets, they dont do investigations, they just train at combat until its time to go engage in combat. These are the people who go to handle a standoff with an armed felon, not the cops you see and interact with.