Why are American cops so trigger happy?
411290
They have good reason. Look at the condition of our country. Now, that's not saying that I agree with rogue cops who like to use their badge as power.\n\nBut think about it, if you were a cop and you were approaching a car (stopped for violation) or breaking up a brawl somewhere, wouldn't you be wanting to pull your gun too. Just about everyone, it seems, carries a gun. Sadly, many are minors..but anyway...a cop has to protect themselves and anyone (civilians, fellow officers, etc.) around them.\n\nBelieve me, cops see much more than what we see...they are lied too, they are attacked, they have guns pulled on them, etc. They see the violence on a day to day basis and I don't think you'd ever get used to that. It'd make you leary and cynical and frankly, I'd imagine, scared. It makes them very skeptical about entering any situation without their hands on their guns. AND you said trigger happy...but drawing a gun, doesn't necessarily mean that they are going to pull the trigger.
1001999
No, I think cops choose that profession because they're lacking control in their lives, and they're trying to compensate.
940076
Your right, there not all the same. But the ones that have been total jerks, and have taken advantage of their position-have given Police Officers a bad name. The ones who beat up people while they are arresting someone, the ones who get off using their tazers more than once on someone, the ones who treat people inhuman while you are jailed-I could go on and on. I have talked to people, and heard the most ugliest stories-It's a CONTROL factor for some humans using their job to hide behind! BUT, God Bless the good Officers!  They put their best foot forward, and their life may be in constant danger protecting us. They are Angels sent from Heaven!
710763
Rotten apples are everywhere mate. But i know for sure that the US has the best police corps in the world, be proud of that. A good cop isn't a good cop if he allows mal practices from partners. Internal affairs would kick both asses and the so-called good cop would be sanctioned too...
382104
The police department.  They have a tone of them.
129504
Police brutality exists in the U.S. for the simple fact that, they do not give proper screening of individules\nbefore they give them a badge and gun. They give these\ngung-ho I-can-do-whatever guys who think they can get away with it cause Im a cop people a job.  Also, factor in the race card, because most of the cases are white on Black crimes.  they fear the black man so they automatically resort to violence to solve the issue.  It sickens me that\nthey allow them to get away with it.  This country prides itself on freedom, what about the freedom to walk or drive\nand not have to worry about the people who are supposed to be protecting you.  Stop Racism, stop police brutallity.\n  And this is being written by a white man, so dont think im a complaining Black man.
1148127
Of course not, lots of cops let the power go to their head and become real jerks and do bad things.  Its the few bad ones that give the good ones who are still human beings such a bad rep.
894454
Because, you know, they are just sooooooo important that every cop in the world has his or her eye on them all the time.  \n\nI also chuckle at people who drive sports cars and complain about the cops allegedly singling them out.  They never stop and think that people driving sports cars are more likely to speed than are people with other cars.  \n\nHonestly, if I drove a sleek car with a high-powered engine, I can bet that I would be more tempted to speed than someone driving something with a 4-cylinder engine.
156003
It is really a much smaller per centage than the media makes it out to be.  Most good and law abiting citizens \nappreciate most of the work the police do for us.\n\nThe one that complains are the ones that have a chip one their shoulder, and would complain about anything......
144097
i'm with you.\ni don't care too much for cops.\nhad bad experience with these clowns who think just because they got a gun and a badge they are above the law.\ni'm a law and order citizen but still have a disdain for cops.\ni go out of my way to avoid them; even if they need help.
330436
You know, it's probably best for me not to vocalize on this subject but I'm going to take the plunge and do so.\n\nI have had the same problem so far in my life.  I find that the Police are very arrogant and misuse their authority.  I know policemen that break the law regularly: smoking pot, taking steroids, and blowing off illegal fireworks on the 4th.  Yet, turn around and give me a ticket for going 5 miles over the limit.\n\nTruly, someone needs to do some undercover type work and expose many of the corruptions in the police force.  They are in a position to abuse authority...and they do so, and don't get caught.  They don't seem to view the public the same as other people do.  They have exalted themselves, in some way, above the public.\n\nIn the average cop, you'll find a good portion of Arrogance.
660894
I think it is because power and authority corrupts some people. Police officers have a lot of power over citizens and citizens have little recourse if you have no witnesses if a cop does something wrong to you. Many other people have power and authority that abuse it. Politicians, doctors, teachers, military personnel, supervisors, managers, big company CEO's, etc. Just to name a few. That's just the way it is.\n\nThe only way we can protect ourselves, is to protect our rights. Particularly the right to keep and bear arms, the 2nd amendment, ensures that we as Americans can protect the other rights that we have.
700382
I work in a populated city's police department, and i know that i sometime treat the richer harder, then the people that i have seen before! I know where you are comming from, it makes me mad to! I am trying to do my part in equality!
1074601
look, if you know you are not a cry baby then just don't listen to them. People attempt to piss you off any way they can, god, everyone knows that! People just say that just for the hell of trying to aggravate you. I am a 24 year old police officer and I cry occasionally, and i'm a man, there is nothing wrong with crying occasionally.
362235
If you take a close look at history, whenever the police started the behavior they now exhibit, violence, military style tactics, etc., this is how governments take control away from the people. It is called police terror.Have you noticed they now call us subjects? What does that imply? We are in trouble.Every time one of those bastards gets shot, I cheer.You can have no respect nor faith in an organization with the agenda that they now have. Screw the government and Screw the police.By the People For the people MY A.S.S.!!! Bring on the revolution
1184034
Many of those people like to feel others pain. Because they have a shitty life, or, because ,they are either too lazy or too stupid to fix it. So they feel better about themselves when they act like they care, and many of them do care, its just that they don't know why they care, and after a very short period of time they change their definition of "caring"  from, actively finding a solution and implementing it, to something like pointing the finger and blaming others. The great thing about most of those people (for them) is that when they point the finger at the "problem"  (i.e. America is the Devil) it looks (to them) like they are pointing the finger at them selves (thus they can appear to be truly selfless) and can act like they are fighting for a solution, when really they are just trying to make themselves feel better for being incompetent in creating a solution -and in their lives for that matter-. Unfortunately Failure and self loathing are considered greatness for many.\nThat is why (at least why I think) American  wanna-be-do-gooders\nalways find the fault in America, it is too painful to find the fault in them selves, and, it is too hard to "fix" the injustice they see.\n  I, fortunately, do not suffer from this malady.\n"I do not want to feel others pain, but, I would like to cure it"....If I don't already have something better to do....
378949
Yes! Americans are uptight about everything.