I did the job for a decade. Vehicle accidents and heart attacks/strokes were the killers. If you want a dangerous job work the night shift at a convenience store.

While everyone on the right was warning about the mythical “antifa”, an Air Force Staff Sergeant stationed at Travis AFB associated with the Boogaloo Bois was wondering around Northern California shooting cops. He was apparently trying to start a race war. In order to “prevent bus loads of antifa from raping and pillaging” in Oregon and Ohio local “militias” and bikers gangs are taking up arms and clogging the streets of small towns.

It is odd how the local police were able to arrest a white man who was armed and shot a protestor without killing him, but black men who are sleeping in their cars in Wendy’s parking lots have to be gunned down.

I think part of the problem is that training for police officers is a joke in much of the United States. The state of California requires a total of 664 hours of instruction and a high school diploma to become a police officer. Most jurisdictions require more, but none require more than 1000 hours of training. Hairdressers, btw, require 1600 hours of training in California before they’re allowed to wield scissors. Yet we require less than 2/3rds that before we allow officers to wield deadly weapons. WTF?

And the nature of that training is also pretty suspect. Today they watch film after film after film of cops being murdered via dash cam and body cam footage. Dead cop. Dead cop. Dead cop. Dead cop. I’ve watched *one* of those training videos and it was enough to give me nightmares for a week even though the officer died off-camera, just the *sound* of a man dying was enough to do that. Do that with impressionable 21 year olds and the impression they get is that everybody is out to kill them and their only choice is to kill anybody who makes the slightest wrong move before that person kills them. And 21 year old males being 21 year old males, the inevitable result is false bravado and brutality, since they feel brutalizing people is the only way to keep themselves safe. Thus the lawsuit by 10% of the cops in Seattle, who sued the city saying they had a constitutional right to violate the constitutional rights of citizens in order to protect themselves.

Of course the numbers don’t support that assertion, nor does the Constitution, but if all you’ve seen is video after video after video of cops being murdered and you’re not exactly well educated to begin with, well.