• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    ACAB and all that, but you are right on the money. Most cops will never draw their service weapon. Of millions and millions of daily police/civilian interactions, no problem.

    They get up to some serious bullshit, been on the wrong end many times, and I’m a white guy, but shootings are rare given 340,000,000 Americans, many of whom are fucking nuts.

    As with any shocking news, and I can’t stress this enough, you only see it because it shocking. An entire family can get smeared off the interstate, hardly worth mentioning.

    tl;dr: Humans are shit are evaluating risk, didn’t evolve to navigate this huge and complex world.