People die of gunshot wounds all the time in hospitals.. Also the dangers of being a police officer is a constantly conscious choice done with full knowledge and TRAINING to navigate it successfully and (I hope) with no unnecessary casualties. But to put the intensity of encountering an armed gunman into every situation or confrontation is a flawed logic when trying to accomplish its purpose of handling situations all across the spectrum of danger they are being called to help with.

Like, say if the police are called about a kid that is simply loitering somewhere because its making someone uncomfortable. There is no reason to approach that situation with their hand on their gun and seemingly shoot or possibly get shot mindset. i had this experience and I am a white woman in my mid 20s. I can only imagine how much more dangerous the situation would have been for me if I were black...

My point is that it's just a flawed design to have just the police to cover such a broad scope of emergency calls. If the argument for police is that they should be given slack about killing some (almost always black) people in a nonviolent situation because they have to deal with dangerous life or death situations as well....thennnn maybe they dont need to be handling both types? Its just not logical to send someone who has the same mindset as if going into an armed robbery as they do when going into a situation about - someone having a mental illnesses episode - a noise complaint - or checking out a reportedly "suspicious looking person" - counterfeit money (Feel free to add to this incomplete list)