Poll Do You Feel Safe Around Law-enforcement Officers?

[Marie E.]

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.

 

[Weemie]

do i call 911 if i have to? yup. do i feel safe around cops? nope. they trigger me. deeply. too many bad apples one after the other.

 

[Blackbird89]

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.

 

[Deleted member 19804]

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.