While talk about police reform consider that Game Wardens and such deal with obviously armed people on a daily basis and they don't shoot a whole lotta folks. I don't they walk up to folks with their weapons drawn. I know, from having worked with many of them, that they do encounter all sorts of hairy situations but they don't kill that many.

Not saying that the situations are identical, but it seems to me that police( in a broad brush sense) are way too hair-triggered.