“Why can’t the police expect to do likewise?”
Because they’re police. Even if every cop does everything right and every police department does everything right, some of them are going to get hurt, and some of them are going to die.
If that is unacceptable to you, you should choose a different line of work.
“Why can’t the police expect to do likewise?”
“Because they’re police. Even if every cop does everything right and every police department does everything right, some of them are going to get hurt, and some of them are going to die.
If that is unacceptable to you, you should choose a different line of work.”
Why did you ever assume that I was a policeman. I earned my living as an engineer. I have the utmost respect for all of those that are willing to, as you said, get hurt or die. I am old enough to remember when it was extremely rare for a policeman to get seriously hurt while doing his job. I can remember when it was almost unheard of for one to be killed.
Now it is common place. Please pay close attention to my reference to a “common denominator.”
I think that it was John Adams that said (and I am going to paraphrase because I can’t remember verbatim), “Our form of government was intended only for a moral people. It will work for no other.” If it wasn’t John Adams that said this, then whoever did was a very wise man with a very keen vision for reality.
I asked a sheriff friend of mine once what his biggest challenges was. He shared with me that it was hiring men smart enough to be deputies yet dumb enough to do it for the pay. We may be about to see a mass exodus from the profession of law enforcement.