# Police prioritizing their own personal safety over that of the public **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 16, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-prioritizing-their-own-personal-safety-over-that-of-the-public/1033900 "2026-10-16T20:24:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 84
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-prioritizing-their-own-personal-safety-over-that-of-the-public/1033900/84 "2026-10-17T20:29:09Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@robby](#): > > > > Nearly all of them. > > Cite? I addressed this. You defined “criminals” as everyone killed by police (all 20,000 of them according to you) except for the 35 “innocents” in which the police officer was charged and convicted. That is obviously nonsense, as a perusal of the half-dozen or so cases I’ve cited in the thread shows, and the larger omnibus thread here: > [@Controversial encounters between law-enforcement and civilians - the omnibus thread #2](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread-2/912531): > > The first thread was locked due to post-count limits. I think that a thread about interactions between civilians and the police in 2020 is at least as relevant and necessary as it was when I started the first one back in 2014, so here’s the new thread --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-prioritizing-their-own-personal-safety-over-that-of-the-public/1033900)._