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>>dtagam+(OP)
There needs to be a psychology study done with cops to understand why they act the way they do. I believe there's an underlying problem in how they are trained or something else because police brutality is kind of a global phenomenon. When someone kills or severely hurts the people they are supposed to protect, it seems like there's something else going on. I've been in a few protests and I can easily say that I have never seen more hatred in someone's eyes other than the cops that were beating up people.

>>lorthe+mz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...

The rate of police killings is vastly higher in the US than any other Western country. So something is going on there that is not a universal phenomenon.

>>tprice+vB
People in US have too many guns. Cops are afraid for their life and use preventive violence.

>>vbezhe+fD
Yet police have one of the safer jobs in the USA. Loggers, fisherman, roofers, truckers, farmers, and construction workers all hold more dangerous jobs than police. A police officer is more likely to die in an accident (car or otherwise) than by violence.

And despite this, it's continually hammered home into their heads that they have a very, very dangerous job. Yeah, you're correct, it's fear from the lies told to them.