This is in fact what officers actually believe. Especially if the body is black.

I’ll use my youth as a comparison since some commenters have little sense of history or their own youth. I grew up in the 70's and early 80's just outside of NYC in a suburban middle-upper middle class fairly Rockefeller Republican town. Think of a version of Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused”
Suburban NYC as…