denverpilot
Tied Down
Very sad. I will shed a tear for the police slain today, but no more than I shed a tear for those the police have slain.
In both groups of people you mentioned, there are a few who I'd happily **** on their graves than shed any tears. Just like any labeled subset of humans...
The NM cop who blasted the homeless camping guy with an AR, comes to mind as ****-worthy.
And plenty of criminals who've been blown away.
(On the criminal side, sure is a lot cheaper than feeding them for 60 years, and paying for the multiple court cases as they go in and out of the system.)
I'll save the tears for the ones worthy of them. There's plenty. But all of them? No. There's some real azzz-hats out there, both in and out of uniforms.
Like I've suggested before, make the pay commensurate with application of deadly force, including the necessary liability insurance payments, and remove the taxpayer funded liability safety net underneath them, and the bad ones will be bankrupt very quickly, or be cowardly enough to quit and find something safer to do, and not in the job anymore.
Our society is stupid to pay poorly for LE, and even stupider to pay for their legal defense. We don't do that for other dangerous professions where the profession wields the ability to kill.