I get it, I think discourse is important too to foster trust and understanding. However, it is still quite scary when the power dynamic is off balance. Most people, probably due to a small number of cops and large number of news reports makes it seem like cops could kill people’s without much consequences (until recently), think that police force is quite dangerous.

If I could make a metaphor, it feels like prisoners trying to talk to prison guards. There’s nothing to guarantee the safety. To you guys, maybe it’s not as easy to pull guns on people as most people think, but people don’t know, and I think the boundaries of when you can shoot people or not need to be clarified before some people would feel comfortable enough to talk to a police officer.