> Grow up.

Excellent advice.

It's time we stop living in or creating a fantasy world where every encounter with the public is an opportunity for a gun battle. Perhaps if they were trained in deescalation and not told to fear every person they encounter as potential threat then they wouldn't be perpetually afraid for their lives while performing routine interactions with the public?

We don't need to be investing heavily in training cops for an exception encounter, we need to be providing them the training and tools necessary for their day to day duties. As a follow on, the public wouldn't be afraid for their own safety when having to interact with police.

> a fantasy world

that's the world you're living in, where these selfless, fearless (and also defenseless) people go out to sacrifice themselves every day.

> training cops for an exception encounter,

yeah, except the "exception" means you don't come home to your family that day.

> yeah, except the "exception" means you don't come home to your family that day.

So I guess we should be giving every citizen that same paramilitary training because they have a higher chance of being killed by a cop than a cop does by them.

Uvalde, TX disagrees.

meaning, what? Some cops and chiefs betray their oath to put other people's safety above their own?

would you like some examples where they didn't?

There's more examples where they did at this point.