The Uvalde police did not do their jobs. How can you screen for cops that will confront a gunman? I think that is as important as more spending on equipment.
After listening to his perspective and the accounts of what happened it’s obvious now there was a lot of indecision and no leadership. His final point was people will scoff at police spending 20% of their time training and he counters with would you rather have 10 hardly trained police show up or 8 well trained police show up to an event like that. His reaction to a lot of the “arm teachers”, etc ideas was also “they need to be trained”.
devil's advocate but like... maybe the general public incorrectly assumed that public servants like police officers making $60k/yr are going to risk getting killed?
like... i do 9am-5pm in my house, for a lot more than $60k/yr. you could not pay me $60k/yr to run into an active shooting situation. why would i expect somebody else, regardless of their job title, to risk dying to protect others?
heroes are cool and amazing but... why are we expecting somebody earning a median salary whose main job is like... traffic stops, domestic violence disputes, noise complaints
it isn't even about money. i don't think paying somebody $250k/yr magically ok's society to say "well... it's your 40 hour a week duty to risk getting killed"
idk, i'm sure i'm wrong. i'm just being play-contrarian/devil's advocate/fake edgy
In more general terms, there's a whole bunch of jobs out there where the pay is higher because of risk to life and limb too.
But the reality is that a lot of cops just want to exercise power over those weaker than themselves