And so much of that thread had no connection with the over all reality because the people posting there got their "experience" from a headline and youtube. Look at those isolated incidents in the face of almost 800,000 uniformed police in the US. Then you see just how much of a wasted exercise that thread was.
Long story short, the vast majority of criminals don't even think about the fact the cop has a gun. If they did fear that there would be no such thing as resisting arrest. The magic wand would have every crook stop the minute a cop shows up. Hell I have pointed a taser at sober angry suspects, when I had time to draw it, told them I was going to tase them, and I was still forced by their actions to deploy it because of the culture they live in. Its a sad culture, where I work. I will explain why I say that in a moment. Where I work it is a high crime area where there is a culture on the street that says "if you just threaten force its a bluff" and they call it because if you meant to use force you would have just done it. So the gun doesn't matter, sometimes even when it is drawn and aimed. Where I grew up however is a "bedroom community" vs a high crime community. There mere officer presence, tools and all, usually causes an immediate deescalation with some rare exceptions.
They don't want to go to jail yes, but they will beat the living crap out of a cop to make that happen. The stats I posted regarding assaults against, and documented injuries to, LEOs in the US make my point for me, even if you want to avoid the stats because it is inconvenient to your narrative because your narrative doesn't address the high-crime vs bedroom community issue, nor the fact that a majority of physically violent incident incidents involve the suspect being under the influence of drugs or alcohol (where they aren't thinking straight period) etc.
