It’s easy for a cop to blow off the loss of others’ feelings of security, privacy, freedom as just a mistake at the hands of your brothers. After all, that’s what you do every day. The rest of us don’t feel that way.
I spent most of my adult life as a police officer, my primary objective in getting out of bed in the morning was to protect and serve. That was drilled into me in training and reiterated all through my career as a police officer. I like to think I did a pretty good job matching the expectations of the police credo “protect and serve”. Most of my colleagues thought the same way and yet we are all condemned my mistakes like this. Go figure.