Back in the Golden Age of “wooden shampoos,” if a Chicago cop was shot, the CPD would turn the entire neighborhood upside down until the perp was identified, located and then received his just desserts while resisting arrest. All before the sun rose the next morning.
Everyone knew the rules and things like this didn’t happen often.
Yes, when officers were killed all the others and brass turned out in uniform to show solidarity. Not sure if that happens now aside from Blue Bloods.
A few years ago, City of Detroit. “The reason why he targeted and shot and killed the police officer was he needed a gun quickly and he told his lawyer later that he remembered all cops carry guns so he killed him to get his gun.”
Opposite of fear of reprisal for killing a cop.