Bullshit. Its more dangerous to be a trash collector in the USA than a policeman.
On average, 60,000 officers are criminally assaulted each year while performing their duties, with about 12,000 assaults using a weapon. That doesn't count the officers assaulted multiple times, which could easily put the total instances of assault on officers closer to 90,000 per year. There are 900,000 sworn officers in the US, and about 1/3 of those are largely desk cops or work in areas like courts, or other government buildings, etc.. That means among the patrol officers who respond to calls, etc.. and get almost all the assaults, there is is about 4 assaults for every 30 officers per year. Sounds pretty dangerous. The fact that many don't get seriously hurt or that there are not more assaults is directly due to the cops being trained to defend themselves and that they armed and do sometimes use their guns.
This also does not include any other serious injuries not directly caused by assaults, but by random accidents on duty, or accidents while pursuing or restraining a suspect.
In addition, cops get hurt in situations where the high probability of injury is predictable and not a random accident but the intentional acts of perps. That is starkly different than professions where all injuries are random and largely unpredictable accidents that you cannot defend against.
In addition, for every actual assault or injury, each cop encounters hundreds of situations per year where they are interacting with people where violence is highly plausible, people who either have in the past or are or appear likely to currently engage in violence. Nearly every single arrest even for non-violent infractions is an act of physical aggression in which they are restraining people physically against their will. IOW, all arrests entail physical encounters with people who an incentive to fight back, and a large % of arrests are of people who also have a disposition toward physical confrontation. In every such situation, even if only a small % actually entail such aggression against the cop, they inherently are and should be mentally prepared for it and anticipating their response should it occur. No other profession come anywhere near that type of constant need to prepare for a potential physical confrontation or threat of violence. Thus, your reliance on mere injury stats is completely invalid as a basis to evaluate either the actual danger cops face but the more relevant mental readiness for danger and violence inherent to encountering the type of dangers they face.
And there are plenty of other countries that have much, much lower crime rates, less harsh justice systems and where officers rarely use their weapons.
Um, sure, but how does cops using less force in countries with fewer violent criminals and much much fewer armed criminals support your claim that US cops who encounter far more criminals and more weapons should use less force?
You are ignoring the fact that crimes are not primarily caused by the actions of the cops in response to (and after) the commission of the crimes.
If your bullshit were true, these countries would be lawless hellholes with heaps of dead policemen because they hesitated to use their weapons.
Um no. That only follows if the sole causal determinant of crimes and especially use of weapons in crimes was how the cops respond to the crimes. No one but you is making that absurd assumption.
The problems of the USA are not normal.
Correct. We have an abnormal number of people that are armed with lethal weapons and ready and willing to use them against others, including cops. The cause of this problem is NOT that the US cops are especially brutal.
They are the product of our specific system, where police officers are untrained, police organizations have been inifiltrated by white supremacists, and where guns are so common that people jump to the conclusion that anything that looks vaguely like a gun actually IS a gun. The problem is not toy guns, it is real guns.
This underlined part is the only valid part of your post. But it isn't just the prevalence of guns in general, but especially among the people that US cops encounter every day and in the neighborhoods that cops patrol due to high crime rates. IOW, US cops have very rational based expectations and thus fears about encountering criminals with guns.
There is also the problem that ex-military are invading police ranks in unprecedented numbers and being given special affirmative-action style treatment (i.e. hired when unqualified). They will tend to react to threats with more aggression and less de-escalation efforts. That is also a problem, but especially so because cops do in fact encounter real physical threats and dangerous situations on a daily basis, which brings their reactions to threats into play.
