[Hedonistic Traveler]

(11-19-2014 10:38 AM)Alpha Wrote:  

(11-19-2014 10:26 AM)Goldfinger Wrote:  

Police officers jobs are hard,

No. Their jobs are dangerous, but they aren't hard.

I always thought the dangers of being a police officer were overstated. It is ranked as the 10th most dangerous job in the US, but it's behind roofers, farmers, and drivers. They're also more likely to die in a traffic accident than from being shot.

You'd never guess this was the case though. Police officers view themselves as this ridiculous "beacon of justice" who risk their lives everyday, but really the majority of them are just assholes who get off on being in a position of power.

Here are the list of killings by police in January 2013(a random month), you can go through the list and see that a huge amount of them are killings of unarmed civilians, who usually weren't involved in any serious crime. No one should be suffocated/shot over a DUI or drug sale but it happens at an alarming rate.

I'm sure most police officers wouldn't go quite that far, but a lot of them are excited to be a para-military officer who gets to live out their fantasies once in a while by abusing some civilian, before going back to busting up high school parties and ticketing speeders.

So pretty much...