"Dealing with the police is easy:

Keep your hands in plain sight, and avoid making sudden movements. Being polite helps. "

"They are already people with a badge and a weapon. But what are you basing your opinion on?

If there is *anyone* in the world whos training allows him to withstand the stress of a weird situation, it could be a police officer. The difference between a cop and an ordinary armed person is hundreds of hours of realistic shoot/no-shoot training, stress inoculation training, ethics indoctrination, and physical conditioning.

When comparing the two, I would say that an ordinary person would snap much, much sooner than a cop.
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"They are already people with a badge and a weapon. But what are you basing your opinion on?

If there is *anyone* in the world whos training allows him to withstand the stress of a weird situation, it could be a police officer. The difference between a cop and an ordinary armed person is hundreds of hours of realistic shoot/no-shoot training, stress inoculation training, ethics indoctrination, and physical conditioning.

When comparing the two, I would say that an ordinary person would snap much, much sooner than a cop.
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"Exactly. In New Orleans after Katrina you had cops looting stores same as the other guys.

I would say that at that point they weren't acting like cops but criminals."

"You guys are mistaking "snapping" for something else. Greed can get the best of anyone.

All I was arguing was that cops are better equipped through conditioning to retain their composure in stressful life-or-death situations.

The kind of training I am referring to is not about decision making: it is operant conditioning to provide an aotumatic response when the front-brain is too scared to react appropriately (AKA fight-or-flight response) and the midbrain takes over.

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I am watching burn notice, learning to become a better spy. "