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For what though? That's the problem. They have to do a lot of different things, and they're not trained well in any of them.
They have to deal with homeless people who are trespassing. They have to deal with people having mental issues. They have to deal with domestic disturbances. They have to deal with violent crime. They have to investigate thefts. It's really a grab-bag of different jobs, and they're not trained well in any of them.
Making it worse, the training they do receive focuses on violent crime. And, in particular, the training is how to survive the most violent possible criminal who is actively trying to kill them. That's what the TV shows are all about, but it's not what the job is about 99.99% of the time. Only 27% of officers say they have ever fired their guns in their entire careers. If they're always thinking about this worst-case scenario, they're not going to be doing very well at any of the other jobs.
My city actually has a whole segment of cops who are unarmed that focus on the less risky aspects of policing. This specialization could help.
And from what I've been lead to understand from people who discuss policing issues in the US, cops are made to feel terrified of those 'worst case scenarios'. Fear is instilled deep, deep in their psyches and it is pervasive in every facet of their work.