Comment by keybored

Armed cops actively escalating the situation will help someone suicidal?

The cops in my country do work that is not about catching criminals, like leading search and rescure operations. Apparently not a problem. Apparently now these particular police have started carrying weapons as a matter of course. So that’s a bad development for a regular, peaceful presence. But overall we seem okay with the regime.

So I don’t have some personal feeling that violence is about to erupt because the police are nearby.

But I don’t see how this helps for those particular locales where the population (or segments of it) only associate active police involvement with escalation.