>>Correct. I left that unsaid because I now we all understand the situation.
Many of us do, but there’s still a lot of badge-kissers here.
I refrain from broad-brushing the cops; it’s like everything else: ya got good apples, bad apples, and all kinda apples in between. I know a few LEO’s personally, and all of ‘em are good guys who — if they got an order like this; they’d be sick to their stomachs and thinkin’ about a career change rather than follow like lemmings.
But, on the other hand, yeah you do have the “duds” in the ranks. I remember listening to the scanner feed the night they bagged that terrorist who’d been part of the Boston Marathon bombing. No sooner had they confirmed the guy was in custody than some bonehead member of the rank-and-file came on open freq with something like, “We oughta get that pension increase after all this.”
The weeds and the wheat grow up together ‘n’ we oughta try harder to separate ‘em before we just toss it all into the flames.