And that makes killing someone acceptable? I wish officers like that could talk to the brave peace officers working 20 or so years ago.

I was recently watching COPS and was paying attention to the officers responses when confronted with violent or aggressive behavior. I only watched episodes from the early 90's.

I could not believe the things suspects did and how not once did an officer draw his or her gun. It was basically watching boxing matches as one officer was being bit and repeatedly punched so much that his nose became one big bloody mess, yet his partner (standing right over them) calmly took out his baton and hit the suspect in the shin with enough force to get the suspect to give up and not cause any major bodily harm to him. That was it, then they arrested him and the one officer sought minor medical treatment.

That segment was followed by one which involved an incident with a woman who concealed a knife until she abruptly grabbed it from somewhere and fully lunged at the officer with it, but once again no gun was drawn as the officer engaged her head on in which he swiftly brought her down to the ground.

He escaped without a scratch on him, but the woman fell directly onto the knife which is unfortunate, but it was her choices alone that caused that. The officer didn’t make the conscious choice in whether she lived or died.

That was the way that officers handled and respected each life back then and that’s even when they were dealing with career criminals. It’s pretty awful that I was literally surprised each time that the officers didn’t use lethal if at least excessive force in every violent situation that I watched during the show.

Taking a human’s life without hesitation is so common that I was conditioned to feel that it was only natural for those officers kill those suspects and expect to actually see it happen, so I was caught by surprise to see the opposite. That in itself expresses a truly disturbing reality in America.