I always question the motives of any person who becomes a law enforcement officer. It seems counterintuitive to me that a person would feel the calling to serve their community while at the same time thinking violence is the best way to to do it. I think a law enforcement career tends to attract certain kinds of people: people who are morally lazy and need a set of clearly defined rules of right and wrong, people who want to break the law and get away with it. We all have anectodal evidence of a police officer using their lights to run a red light, or have see a police cruser drive recklesly in traffic just to get to the head of the pack, or know of an incident where someone was struck by a police car, where the cop was at fault and the victem was ticketed. There are of course other incidents of police using their job as a camoflage for drug dealing or acting as a black market fence.
I am not saying all cops are crooks, I am just saying there is ample evidence to be suspicious of the motives of a cop when they act.
I also want to be clear that I am friends with several law enforcement officers, mostly sheriffs deputies, and they make it clear that the job itself changes you and your perception of the world. When you deal with the underbelly of society all day every day it can lead to some preconseptions. Most of which are probably helpfull in the course of the job and make sure the cop lives through his shift.
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I can't wait to hear the tawdry affair behind this horrible shooting.
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