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Poll Do You Feel Safe Around Law-enforcement Officers?

Do you feel safe around law enforcement officers?

  • Yes, and I have had good experiences with them.

    Votes: 23 23.2%
  • Yes, even though I've had no experiences with them.

    Votes: 1 1.0%
  • Yes, even though I've had bad experiences with them.

    Votes: 11 11.1%
  • No, I've been abused/treated badly myself by them.

    Votes: 28 28.3%
  • No, they have abused or badly treated people I care about.

    Votes: 11 11.1%
  • No, even though I've never had an encounter with one.

    Votes: 9 9.1%
  • No, even though I've had neutral or positive experiences with them.

    Votes: 12 12.1%
  • I have trauma-related fear of them

    Votes: 26 26.3%
  • I am or once was a law enforcement officer.

    Votes: 2 2.0%
  • I work directly with law enforcement officers.

    Votes: 8 8.1%

  • Total voters
    99
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With minus the plain clothed officer who owned a house next to my 2nd abuser and I, I tend to get flash backs from direct contact with officers. It has to do with things my 1st abuser did to me while talking about cops. Something horrible. Today I am physically safe and abuse free.
 
I don't trust cops on the basis that they lack empathy a lot of times and assumptions are made. Otherwise,in my experience they do their job well.
 
I've only ever talked to police officers twice and they seemed nice. I have heard bad stories about them, though. About their behaviour in my country and in the US.
Apparently it is allowed here for police officers to go undercover during a legal protest and to provoke fights, so that they have an excuse to arrest people. That really disgusts me.

However, things like people getting killed by the police are very rare in the Netherlands, thankfully. Whenever a policeman uses his gun for a warning shot, it already makes the news. And when they have to shoot a suspect, they aim for the leg.

It does scare me a little that they are allowed to do certain things, but I am never afraid that one of them will seriously hurt me.
 
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