Too many cops. Too many laws. Cops should be held personally financially responsible for incidents like this, or shooting dogs, breaking down the wrong doors. Not the FOP, not the city. Force a few of these thugs into personal bankruptcies, fire them and blacklist them from law enforcement. That way they can’t move from city to county. Make them jobless and without prospects.
Without the magical police officer shield they can’t misbehave.
Personal financial and criminal responsibility will make cops more careful. They are real good about looking out for their own skin. We just have to make it advantageous for them to use the Grey matter first and the muscles second.
Perhaps there are “too many cops” in some places (cities and surrounding areas) but where I am there aren’t enough. At any given time there are only 2 local, 2 county, and 2 state on duty. Quite often every day or night we are all backed up on service calls and do minimum traffic enforcement because there aren’t enough cops to cover our city/county/district. It’s not unusual to have county or state ask us local guys for help and then see us 10 miles from town because it’s an emergency call and they (county and state) are 30 miles away.
So I don’t know what to tell you. In the big cities there are too many cops I guess but it’s not that way everywhere.