I have made several previous blog posts about how the United States police officers are complete cowards, who put "officer safety" well above the safety of innocent bystanders, even schoolchildren who are being killed by an active school shooter.
While probably nothing will ever surpass the absolutely astonishing and disgraceful level of absolute cowardice that was that event, there are myriads and myriads of more minor examples that nevertheless show how cowards they are. A couple of previous examples here and here. The examples, big and small, are in fact so numerous that I might make this into a series.
In this particular instance a police officer was called because, allegedly, some old man was hitting or threatening to hit people with a golf club. As far as I know that wasn't actually the case and the report was false (I'm not going to speculate on the possible motivations of the caller) but anyway, when the police officer arrives, she's too scared of the elderly man with the golf club that for several minutes she doesn't dare to approach him and just yells at him ordering him to put the golf club down.
What's most hilarious about this incident is that many bystanders just walk by with zero concern, some of them looking at the police officer as if thinking "what is she blabbering about? Is she crazy?"
In another example a dozen or so police cars are in pursuit of a suspect driving a vehicle in the middle of a busy city. The driver seems to be under the influence of drugs or something, and is driving erratically and potentially very dangerously.
What's so special about this?
The fact that the suspect was driving quite slowly, stopping at each traffic light. In fact, and quite particularly, in the moment that the above screenshot is from, the driver had stopped at that intersection for several minutes, and the police cars (most of them out of view from this perspective) just stand there doing nothing, waiting for the driver to keep going on.
Note that they are trying to stop the driver. They are trying to box him in, or somehow else disable the vehicle, yet several times the driver just stops at an intersection, sometimes for minutes on end, and the police cars do nothing but also stop and wait.
Why don't they surround the vehicle, box it in, block all of its exits? After all, they should stop this person who is driving very recklessly, probably under the influence of drugs, and who is a danger to bystanders. Who knows how he will react if allowed to continue, he could crash into another car or pedestrians, killing someone. Why don't they try to stop him as soon as possible, especially given that he just stops for minutes on end at intersections?
Because the police officers are cowards, that's why.
As mentioned so many times before, to them "officer safety" goes well above the safety of innocent bystanders. They do not dare to put themselves at risk, even if it would be to stop a potentially dangerous person from hurting innocent bystanders.
They are scared that the driver may be armed, or that he will ram his car into theirs. That's why they are following him from a distance and only attempting PIT maneuvers from a safe distance and speed. They are too scared to just take advantage when the car is stopped, and try to incapacitate the driver before he hurts anybody.
Much of the behavior of American police that seems incomprehensible or strange can often be explained by realizing how cowards they are, and how they put "officer safety" well above the safety of civilians (who they are supposed to protect).
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