No Knock SWAT Raids

[Savannahmann]

33. Let's say that they are.

Just for the sake of argument, let's say they are a threat to police. So now, all drug users that they search for are gang color wearing homicidal maniacs? Seriously? That's your argument?

The bad guy wasn't even there. http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/a_swat_team_blew_a_hole_in_my_2_year_old_son/

But the baby got in the way, and that's just the sort of thing you have to do as a cop. Oh, no drugs, no bad guy, nothing but wounded innocents.

Kathryn Johnston. A little old lady who lived in one of those neighborhoods, thought that the banging on her door in the wee hours of the morning was gang members busing in to rob or murder her. Instead it was the cops. She had no drugs,

So we're talking Officer Safety. How many cops died in the line of duty last year? 30 died from gunfire in 2013.

How many were killed by police? 46 people died at the hands of police in January 2013. I didn't have the stomach to count the other months, perhaps you could help. Was January a good month, or bad month for people killed by police? Did the over or under win on the bets?

So in one month of the year, more people died by police, than police officers died from gunfire all year. So far, it looks a lot safer to be a cop, than a civilian who deals with cops.

A grand total of 105 cops died in the line in 2013, More than 40 died in automobile related incidents including pursuits, automobile accidents, struck by vehicle, and assault with a vehicle. Yet for some reason they don't wear bright colors like the rest of the people who work around the roads. Why not wear a safety vest and oh I don't know, perhaps we could come up with some sort of restraint that would hold the occupant of the vehicle in the seat. I see cops all the time, and never see one of them wearing a seat belt. Despite the fact that they are more likely to die in a vehicle related incident, they all want to wear black and look bad instead of bright colors where the driver of a car might see and avoid them while driving down the road.

OSHA requires that people who work alongside roads wear bright safety vests and all that. Cops, not so much, it might make them easier to see, or something.

So what have we established as fact? It is far safer to be a cop than a civilian who deals with the police. The police are more likely to die by automobile related incidents instead of gunfire, but still won't wear their seat belts. Now, are there any other questions or excuses about how tough it is to be a civilian who deals with a cop?