the tendency of police officers to use immediate lethal violence can most likely be explained by the aforementioned Puritan "punishment" mentality
It must be horrible to be an American cop. All that training, the weapons, the body armour, the radio to immediately summon a whole squad of armed goons who may or may not even have a tank, and they regularly feel so terrified by women in pyjamas or pet doggos that they must immediately resort to lethal force.
It must be horrible to be an American cop. All that training, the weapons, the body armour, the radio to immediately summon a whole squad of armed goons who may or may not even have a tank, and they regularly feel so terrified by women in pyjamas or pet doggos that they must immediately resort to lethal force.