I disagree with the original phrasing, but not necessarily the point being made. A cops job isn't to "get home safe", but rather to make sure everyone gets home safe. If in trying to make sure everyone gets home safe, they reduce the chance they do... well that's the job. It's not for everyone, and there's no shame in it not being for you (there's a reason I'm not a surgeon or physiologist, despite those being actual careers I considered), but if it's not something someone is capable of, we shouldn't be putting them in that position.
Way back in my first year of college as I was getting ready to leave for class I saw a guy in my bushes. Needless to say I hesitated leaving, then I noticed a cop car up the street. I called 911 and told them about the guy hiding from them, and put the dogs in the back yard. A few minutes later, they chased him away from the gate and he started messing with the front door. I went out the back, hopped the fence and headed for the cops through my neighbors side yard, where I was met by one of them. He was naturally suspicious (remember he's just received reports of a guy in the bushes) but after explaining that I was the one who called (and I think showing him my ID that I lived there) we went to look for his partner. At no time did he so much as reach for his gun. We found his partner at the end of the driveway, she had seen him hide behind me car, and he had been ignoring her instructions to come out, so she was waiting for her partner. With him there she proceeded to walk behind and car and bring him out. She was maybe 5'2 and 120 pounds I'd put this guy at 6'. Obviously she had no way of knowing if he was armed, he could easily have had a gun in his cargo pants. Despite that, she too never drew her gun. Just walked back there, told him to turn around, and put the cuffs on him.
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I disagree with the original phrasing, but not necessarily the point being made. A cops job isn't to "get home safe", but rather to make sure everyone gets home safe. If in trying to make sure everyone gets home safe, they reduce the chance they do... well that's the job. It's not for everyone, and there's no shame in it not being for you (there's a reason I'm not a surgeon or physiologist, despite those being actual careers I considered), but if it's not something someone is capable of, we shouldn't be putting them in that position.
Way back in my first year of college as I was getting ready to leave for class I saw a guy in my bushes. Needless to say I hesitated leaving, then I noticed a cop car up the street. I called 911 and told them about the guy hiding from them, and put the dogs in the back yard. A few minutes later, they chased him away from the gate and he started messing with the front door. I went out the back, hopped the fence and headed for the cops through my neighbors side yard, where I was met by one of them. He was naturally suspicious (remember he's just received reports of a guy in the bushes) but after explaining that I was the one who called (and I think showing him my ID that I lived there) we went to look for his partner. At no time did he so much as reach for his gun. We found his partner at the end of the driveway, she had seen him hide behind me car, and he had been ignoring her instructions to come out, so she was waiting for her partner. With him there she proceeded to walk behind and car and bring him out. She was maybe 5'2 and 120 pounds I'd put this guy at 6'. Obviously she had no way of knowing if he was armed, he could easily have had a gun in his cargo pants. Despite that, she too never drew her gun. Just walked back there, told him to turn around, and put the cuffs on him.
This is what I expect from police.