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A US Police Officer isn’t bound by duty to risk their own life.
If they're not expected to do anything while a gunman is shooting children, what's even the fucking point of them then? Emergency services sometimes have to risk their lives to protect, that's part of the whole deal.
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They are a deterrent.
Given the lack of decent training you don’t really want one police officer with a pistol firing in a school, the chances of adding casualties is very high.
Pistols are inherently short range weapons and not incredibly accurate, running into a crowded situation and hitting an innocent bystander is quite likely.On top of that they are not paid a premium wage to risk their lives, that is not part of the deal. On the basis of the failed prosecution it appears anyone who worked at the school could have been prosecuted for failing to intervene.
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Cops are in schools to brainwash kids into ratting each other out. They search kids and kids’ lockers. They get kids to submit fingerprints and DNA samples.
They get kids they don’t like “into the system” ie they arrest the kids for something trivial to create a criminal record. Even if the kid gets off the charge, there is now a record of an arrest in the system.
Cops in schools have nothing to do with safety.BTW that cop’s pension is over $100k/year.
Not bad for a job with such minimal standards of education and ethics.
dancing james
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A US Police Officer isn’t bound by duty to risk their own life.
Subjectively, I’m not sure how I feel. But objectively it’s unsurprising he hasn’t ended up doing porridge just because he wanted to go home to his family at the end of the work day.