If you don't want people to be hostile towards police, might I suggest not murdering people and creating an increasingly hostile environment? Would this man have shot these cops if police hadn't murdered Eric Garner? Truth is we don't know, the man murdered his girlfriend before anyone else, so it's clear he's got serious mental health issues.
Of course, when it comes to police faking like they're in constant danger, we have to point outpolice are statistically more safe than they've been in decades:
Policing doesn't even make it into the top 10 most dangerous American professions. Logging has a fatality rate 11 times higher, at 127.8 per 100,000. Fishing: 117 per 100,000. Pilot/flight engineer: 53.4 per 100,000. It's twice as dangerous to be a truck driver as a cop—at 22.1 per 100,000.The most recent shootings might sway the statistics for 2014, but it won't be anything like it used to be. On the flip side, police are killing more people than ever.
Another point to bear in mind is that not all officer fatalities are homicides. Out of the 100 deaths in 2013, 31 were shot, 11 were struck by a vehicle, 2 were stabbed, and 1 died in a "bomb-related incident." Other causes of death were: aircraft accident (1), automobile accident (28), motorcycle accident (4), falling (6), drowning (2), electrocution (1), and job-related illness (13).
Even assuming that half these deaths were homicides, policing would have a murder rate of 5.55 per 100,000, comparable to the average murder rate of U.S. cities: 5.6 per 100,000. It's more dangerous to live in Baltimore (35.01 murders per 100,000 residents) than to be a cop in 2014.
Nonetheless, if one actually cared about the safety of police, rather than model themselves after an occupational army tasked with enforcing anti-human drug laws and thousands of other idiotic non-crimes deemed unacceptable by the political class, they'd advocate ending the war on drugs and repealing the lot of stupid laws on the books for which the enforcement of such puts police in danger.
No one's life is worth dying over a $50 sale of marijuana, yet police take such jobs, serve armed raids over such petty issues, and kill people and occasionally die in the process over such stupidity.
How come no police union came out after the Garner murder and asked why are the police serving as a goon-squad for local businesses to shut down their competition? Can they not see how murdering someone for selling untaxed cigarettes gets people angry with them and makes their jobs more dangerous as a result? Do they not see how throwing a flashbang into a baby's crib then accusing the innocent family they just raided of being "domestic terrorists" makes people dislike them?
Surely they do, they just don't give a damn, because they're acting as rulers, not as public servants. Putting their boots to peoples' throats is their priority, not their own personal safety.
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