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tf

This is why we don't overuse initialisms. I can't tell if this is meant to be "the fuck," "trans-femme," "type:fox," or some other thing.

bob_lemon is spy!

One more potential "tf" to the pile, then.

Yeah I'm agreeing with you and disagreeing with people like SaveTheTuaHawk who want politics to be black and white.

Then maybe you shouldn't rely on your extremely rare and unverifiable situation to make assertions about the entire US.

On an unrelated note, I am paid $5,000,000 per second in a job that totally exists and is extremely common but I can't prove because it would dox me.

Why do you think they need tailored Linux?

Open source word processors usually support Windows file formats.

I think it's time I block you.

There are too many rage-baiters out there these days, and you're one that does it virtually full-time.

You get all of it in one. Pretending anything in politics has no downsides is silly at best.

Because the balance of the Pros and Cons of unions is better than it isn't, I'm pro-union.

It seems yours is the politer version of the same sentiment.

"The worst workers" are criminals, like DUI people, like this cop. The union had his back, because even "the worst workers" deserve a competent defense in court and in employment action.

I don't think anyone thinks Police Officer is the most dangerous job, even cops.

Your entire comment is very clearly bad faith and poorly-written.

The vast majority of it is a straw man and you would get an F if it was a 1st grade English writing test, indicating either that you struggle with basic (English) writing or you just can't be bothered to devote effort to this topic.

I don't think I need to waste anyone's time further by responding to it.

I can't tell if you're confused or intentionally arguing in bad faith, but I don't think I can fix either.

Best of luck to you.

Holy Red Herring, Batman!

Oh okay, we're adding the "rifles are assault rifles" issue to the pile of topics you've abandoned too?

Patrol officers shouldn’t all be SWAT. That’s a specialist designation that should be reserved for extreme cases.

It seems like you're conflating SWAT with riot police.

When someone has a warrant because they forgot to pay a speeding ticket, they shouldn’t be breeching doors

I'd be shocked if you could prove that's happened, let alone it happens often enough that you're asserting it's normal - for your local agency or US law enforcement more broadly.

When someone threatens to kill themselves, they shouldn’t respond with armored vehicles and sniper rifles.

Likewise for this claim.

I'll skip over the soapboxing because it's predicated on your very unlikely assertion that your local agency is set up the way you claim, let alone that the vast majority of agencies in the US are set up that way.

As for timing, right now if there were an emergency, our police would travel to go to a scene, gear up behind the cars, and make plans for a response, then engage. A SWAT team from a nearby agency would gear up and make plans while en route in the back of the van and be ready to engage just as quickly while being better trained for the job.

My county agency has a SWAT team, but they're distributed throughout the county so their response time is around an hour. I think you'll find that's more often to be the case than this Hollywood scenario you're suggesting is both universal and guaranteed.

If pizza delivery people were allowed to be armed and trained to fight, there'd be a lot less pizza delivery driver injuries/fatalities.

It's a shame you can't bring yourself to share them with the class.

i don’t see the guy biting the medal and shooting champaign everywhere in the meme saying he got first place.

You're moving the goal posts to a new, pedantic position, but fair enough:

Who's the woman in the meme declaring it's the most dangerous job? I see you struggle with basic English so maybe you missed the "MOST DANGEROUS JOB(S)" on the top and bottom.

Nurses don’t get special murder privileges.

Nurses act under the authority of doctors, who do get special murder privileges. Medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death in the United States, killing around 250,000 people per year, according to a Johns Hopkins study.

But before you say "any time doctors kill someone it's by mistake, but any time cops kill someone it's murder," I hope you chew on that bias for a minute, and then I hope you discover that medical malpractice deaths follow the same racial bias trends that law enforcement killings do.

In other words: Yes, they do get special privileges to murder people.

Kinda annoying that you drop this vague accusation and then heck off. Do you want to elaborate or are you comfortable admitting by omission that you're just trolling and I should block you?

I know what an assault rifle is. I used to work in the firearm industry and own over 50 personal guns. The police have select-fire rifles built on the Armalite platform. They’re assault rifles. The guns used by our department don’t have an M designation because they’re not US military spec or military issue. It’s like the difference between an M9 and a 92FS.

I sincerely doubt 25/25 of the LEOs at your city's PD have select-fire rifles, or even 10/10 of the patrol cars or whatever it works out to be with the following:

They have riot shields, tear gas, etc in the cruisers. They carry the heavy body armor and the weapons back and forth because they are sized/kitted out to the officer’s size and preferences and they share cruisers between shifts.

Are you asserting they're donning these at every call? Otherwise what difference does it make if they have them available in seconds versus 20-minute drive to get the gear and a 20-minute drive back to the scene of a riot? Gas expenditure going towards oil barons or giving nasty people 40 minutes to do their thing before the cops get there rather than 1?