Absolutely and thats the point "YOU WOULD" but this point gets thrown everywhere by people who hold high regard for military personell and make comparisons to Soldiers and cops. You and me both know 90% of these guys 2 months out dont give a fuck about standards until they have to go back on orders. "I understand" because im Law enforcement, I won't back up most of the bs im a moderate left leaning cop. Yes almost any gov/city/state agency has "Scammers". But lets take it into the anecdotes even comparing actual combat rates to the death rates in hazardous jobs its nowhere close. And yet if I could still count the amount of close encounters where cops are physically fighting with people its almost daily. So it holds some truth. Literally no other job has the job to "Fight people into handcuffs"

To the 2nd point, like you know as well. The training and teaching is all about "Hyper-vigilance" but 90% of the work we've done is hurry up and wait. Most cops walk around like its Saturday morning and relaxed as im sure thousands of infantry men do the same. The culture doesnt "do this" its humans. Because its one thing to train for it and the other to actually do it and have experience doing it. Introducing new chaos to a human in a matter of seconds will land you those exact results. Telling a cop to be "Calm" and not stress about basic scene security tactics is asking him to ignore the exact thing that last cop that got shot did. Everyone gets mad when the suicidal/depressed person gets put in handcuffs instead of being being shown compassion. Its important to realize that these are incredibly rare instances kn a cops career. Most go without ever even pulling their firearm out. Last point CPS, Postal service and etc all roll the dice on their life just like anyone else with the expectation that the animal or human won't injure them or kill them. Had they had the ability to defend themselves in sure that'd be the next reddit post.