What is it with US drivers?

[LDB]

Originally Posted by trollbait

Some jurisdictions have removed police from traffic enforcement. Instead, they have a force of unarmed traffic enforcement officers that do not have arrest powers. All they can do is issue citations for infractions of the driving and vehicle code. It's all that is needed to keep the driving public honest, without bringing the potential issues of interactions with an armed police force.

This is what people mean with the 'defund the police' slogan.

You can do everything right, and still be shot by a cop.

That may be a small part of what people mean, but they mean a lot more and none of it good.

The odds are infinitesimally small that will happen. You can do everything right and still be run over by a bus as well.

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Originally Posted by LDB

That may be a small part of what people mean, but they mean a lot more and none of it good.

The odds are infinitesimally small that will happen. You can do everything right and still be run over by a bus as well.

If you follow police activity on YouTube, they release body cam footage, and it's quite shocking how many civilians are murdered. You hear the phrase "I thought he had a gun" or "from over there it looked like he had a gun". 250,000 people a year or 5000 people a week are injured by police, and between 600-1000 are killed annually. Some police are armed here apparently, major cities maybe. I've never seen a gun, never want to. We don't need police to be armed because the public are not armed.