If this doesn't make you feel safe, what does??

30 states in the U.S. put untrained police officers on the street. That is pretty awesome.

"Here you go new police officer. Here is your gun for you to legally shoot people. And here is your badge. Your training? Haha. Good one. Now go out there and stop crime!"

It allows departments to put new hires on the streets right away, without waiting for them to go through police academy training, which is usually a full-time, weeks- or months long exercise during which the officer is not on duty but still on the payroll. In some places, there are waiting lists to get into the academy.

This either says that it is so easy to be a cop that you don't need proper training, or that the cops that are on the street probably should not be there in the first place. Either way, it should make you feel safe! I just became a cop while writing this last sentence.