>>43745559Law enforcement takes care of itself first and foremost. Even at the training stage, handling violent offenders is done entirely from the perspective of keeping the cop safe. They will teach them to be deeply afraid of anyone with a possible weapon, doubly so if they're in a neighborhood of typically high crime rates. Which many poor, black neighborhoods tend to be. And that's why many of them are so trigger happy and claim fear for their life. Because many of them do.
I'm sure if you dig hard enough there's a race problem here, but the root of the issue entirely is in the police mentality. It needs to change. But getting any positive change in law enforcement is like pulling teeth. Look at how much they opposed body cams, which are objectively good for both law enforcement and the public.