Do police make mistakes? Yes. They are human. But no where in their job description does it say ‘required to die on duty’.
That’s what a Grand jury is for. They can protest. But to come out and declare that they will not abide by an ‘interpretation’ that doesn’t jive with their view. That, my friend, is when the shark was jumped.
We had an unfortunate incident near here in Beavercreek. The Police received a call about a man in a Walmart carrying a weapon. The two officers that responded had just be at a situational training that enforced every 5 second delay costs a life. It went down fast according to the video. It turns out that is was the store’s stocked MK-177. The Grand Jury did not indict. And good ol’ Al Sharpton was here. They can’t seem to get the juice goin’.
My beef is against the cop who shot a 5 foot man for jaywalking while sitting in his car. He had yelled at the jaywalker and when he turned towards the car, he said he felt threatened. He shot him in the gut and he survived. The guy was a homeless bum who hadn’t ever hurt anyone. But because the cop said he was threatened. Well,he was not indicted. Really mixed messages there.
I have mixed feelings about cops asa well, but living on the frontier of the Newark NJ Welfare Hatchery I’m glad thet’re here (though they are highly overpaid - and some retire in their mid-40s with high pensions). Cops want to go home to their families just like anyone else.
I think they should function more like the military in terms of four year enlistments; as budget cuts hit municipalities here in NJ we’ve been left with an expensive, middle-aged police force that isn’t very effective (as the younger, cheaper cops were laid off). The system where we end up with so many chiefs and so few braves is breaking the NJ taxpayers, and they are responding by fleeing.