bilby
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So basically you need to treat cops like you would treat dangerous predators?And almost all such situations can be avoided by not being confrontational and not doing sudden moves. You get trouble when you force an officer to make a split second decision about what he's seeing.Police are human. They make mistakes. That said, instances of "someone reaching for their registration" or similar getting shot are very rare. Armed and/or mentally disturbed people can be dangerous, however, so I do not see why you are lumping these two very different scenarios together.They seem to have little problem against unarmed individuals when they feel scared of a mentally disturbed person or someone with a knife or someone reaching for their registration.
If your neigbourhood were crawling with mountain lions, you would probably be well served to try to remove them to a place where they have less interaction with humans.
It astonishes me that you can say shit like this and not grasp that you are describing a police force that neither serves nor protects the wider public.
The public should not have to fear the police; The entire point of having police is to reduce public fears of becoming a victim.