Law enforcement once had a mission of protecting and serving a public who paid well for that service. It was not perfect but it worked fairly well.
Today the militarized police with their SWAT and armored vehicles have a mission of going after the supposed bad guys and taking care of their own in the process, and if innocent citizens get caught up and die while this occurs, so be it.
Protecting and serving appears as no longer a prime LE consideration. It needs to once again become the prime mission and those who fail need to be held to account. The change needs to start at local government.
Concur; else police are another criminal gang/cartel trampling the liberties of our citizens and need to be disarmed and have their pensions stripped at a minimum.