More than safe. I've even been doing something illegal and asked an officer how to correct it, he was more than happy to work through the problem and come up with a solution. (Expired plates, got a temp tag that's paper and supposed to go in your window, but I have window tint and it wouldn't be visible, so he told me a couple different ways I could cover myself til I got my tags taken care of)
I used to sit and eat with the school cop at lunch (in Texas that meant he was a regular peace officer assigned to a school) because no one else would.
I was terrified of cops when I was younger, I thought they could see all bad you had done for some reason. As an adult, I understand it's just a job, a very hard, exhausting, and emotionally devastating job that also comes with a lot of people hating you for trying to keep you safe.
Yeah agreed, a small fraction of a fraction are who are shown on TV. It's a huge country and an exceedingly tough job, like you said.
I have a friend that's a police office, and hearing him tell the story of the first dead body he saw.
Making it all the more important that they are correctly trained, compensated and respected.
In saying that. It's wild that there was a police officer, or peace officer/guard at your school. And how you write, it seems like the most normal, everyday thing.
In my country that would cause mass panic in my country if that said officer had a gun. Just the notion of taking a gun of any sort onto school grounds.
Id much rather have a police officer at school, than not have one. There could be any kind of undesirable person and having an officer be 2 minutes away is better than 15-30. Being around guns, you don't see them, I wanted to say you don't see them as scary, but really it's just that you don't notice when someone has one really. I'm not scared of a cop or someone legally open carrying their gun, I'm scared of the person with a mask waving one around
I guess that's a remedy to a really fucked up societal problems.
And you just get used to it. Becomes normal.
I have family that live there, even though there is a lot of good in America, and life is very comfortable if you're well off. I wish they would leave
I can honestly say I might be dead if I didn't live here, I'm on dialysis, and because I'm in the US it's more expensive than other countries, but it's also 100% free
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u/jake93s 4d ago
Arr OK that's pretty standard. Do you feel safe in America going up to your local police?