Geezus, no wonder so many cops gun down civilians and their dogs, and walk away with little more than a reprimand. People with this attitude enable them.
Just what makes the cop's life more valuable than the citizen that has committed no crime, or believed to have committed one?
If this cop is so frightened of making it home, he should maybe see if the city has an opening in refuse disposal. Maybe crime prevention is too threatening for him.
I feel that way now. It used to be we gave extra respect to cops because they put their lives on the line to protect innocent citizens.
But after a couple of decades of watching armed officers sit around outside a building while a random gunman kills a dozen people (because they are worried they might get hurt going in), and shooting dogs just to be safe, and shooting kids with airsoft guns, or the incident in california where cops shot up innocent peoples’ cars simply because they THOUGHT the cars looked like the car driven by a cop-killer, It is now clear that the cops are using their armed status to ensure that they are protected, not the innocent citizens.