Although I'm the last one to give cops a free pass I agree that there are situations where they have to shoot. For example, there was a rise in the numbers of people shot by police after Katrina and the storm flushed out the sewers of NO and the residue came to Atlanta. From what I could tell most if not all of these were justified. However, when there are no consequences to the individual officer for the unjustified ones, that is what leads to the rise in shootings.
For example, recently one of the dickless Tracys shoot and killed a teenager who had the poor judgment to answer her knock at the door with a Wii contoller in his hand. She was serving a warrant on his father, but didn't identify herself as a cop. Just killed the kid when he opened the door. This happened in Feb, and to the best of my knowledge the cop hasn't faced any charges yet. At first the police lied (big surprise eh?) and said the kid pointed a gun at her, but since no gun was found (guess she wasn't organized enough to carry a throw away for such occasions) and none of her fellow officers got there in time to plant a gun, plus there were whitnesses who said he had a Wii controller not a gun, that lie didn't fly. The shooting is currently being "investigated" by the GBI. Look for whitewash in large quantities.
You live in West Mogadishu (Atlanta)?
I have to commute to this sewer almost every day.
I agree with pretty much everything you wrote.
You remember the Erik Scott case in Nevada? The POS that pulled the trigger is now a two-time offender. Which is exactly what you’re talking about.