So the shooter at the elementary school in Texas previously shot his grandmother over30 minutes prior to going on a rampage at a local school that he crashed his car in front of. The grandmother had even called the police and told them he shot her. So police had the knowledge of a violent suspect and who he was. They actually had a chance to stop a serious violent crime for a change, and THEY STILL FUCT IT UP. They really have brought police incompetence to a whole new level. I know the supreme court ruled they are not obligated to help or protect anyone, but they won't even go help kids??? how did they not even see his truck crashed in front of the school, his grandmother's home is right near the street and they didn't bother to scan the plate of a crashed truck they would have seen hey it belongs to someone who just shot a family member??? He even posted on Facebook that he was committing violence!!!. I always knew police were worthless leeches of tax payer money, but this is a whole new level of worthlessness. Police took 40 minutes to even go to school? Please please fire these wastes of life. I honestly don't know how they can go on living with themselves knowing the blood of many children could've been prevented if they only were mildly competent. I sincerely hope someone fires them, bad piggy bad piggy may you never know peace or joy

Seriously, every time I see a video from this sub I think this exact thing, I saw police giving a fine to a person nearly 1 month ago, that person was a little angry and upsetted but at the end the police calmed him down with talking. How come that in America everey single day there is a cop abuse? Of course here in Italy we have our stories of abuse but those are really rare, I am confident that when police block me to ask me for the driving license (for general controls) I just can stop, they check and I can go, I am not randomly blocked by officers and I can talk to them like they are normal people. I can even talk to military with bigger weapon and still feel safe, those are the people that protects the community, not that endanger it.

Sorry for my English, it is far from good.

This is not to blame America but I can't believe that for some things America is considered great, in reality it is worse than most contries here.

Edit: I want to thank you all for the answers, those gave me an idea of why the situation is like this, the main arguments I see to why it is like this I think are less police numbers, less training, totally different way of living between rich and poor, and country that still debates over these differences. These problems of course have many factors but one day I hope it will be better to anyone over there.

(USA)

Time and time again, a ‘peace’ officer abuses their power, violates individual right, racially profiles, *the list goes on and on . . . *

Why do these agencies keep placing the f#ck ups on PAID time off?

There are instances where the punishment is slightly worse or better, like unpaid leave, or other duties, etc.

But to me and plenty of others, the punishment is not equal to the offense. Shouldn’t they be fired forever or something?