There is a difference between legal and morally right. Cops serve a necessary function but are not all heros and certainly don’t risk their lives every day. Nor is everyone out to kill a cop. Cops also aren’t out to kill people, at least not the vast majority of cops.
Some cops are looking to add a notch to their gun, and I’ve spoken face to face with them. They are trained that every encounter could be their last. Some (including federal) use targets of little children and pregnant women for shooting practice to desensitize themselves.
People here defended the SF cop who shot the guy laying on the ground handcuffed. People here will defend every cop in every cop shooting or story about police abuse.
The kill or be killed training, rambo mentality, and tendency to support a fellow cop regardless of how corrupt or immoral has got to stop.
That garbage is part of anarcho-tyranny:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_T._Francis#Anarcho-tyranny
Sam Francis wrote: What we have in this country today, then, is both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny – the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes; the criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent through exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulation, the invasion of privacy, and the engineering of social institutions, such as the family and local schools; the imposition of thought control through "sensitivity training" and multiculturalist curricula, "hate crime" laws, gun-control laws that punish or disarm otherwise law-abiding citizens but have no impact on violent criminals who get guns illegally, and a vast labyrinth of other measures. In a word, anarcho-tyranny.
And he also wrote: The laws that are enforced are either those that extend or entrench the power of the state and its allies and internal elites ... or else they are the laws that directly punish those recalcitrant and "pathological" elements in society who insist on behaving according to traditional norms – people who do not like to pay taxes, wear seat belts, or deliver their children to the mind-bending therapists who run the public schools; or the people who own and keep firearms, display or even wear the Confederate flag, put up Christmas trees, spank their children, and quote the Constitution or the Bible – not to mention dissident political figures who actually run for office and try to do something about mass immigration by Third World populations.
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See, if we didn't have this state of affairs, what few police that we needed would have the FULL SUPPORT of the citizens, not peasants.
Malefactors who laid a hand on what would then be the true protectors of the populace would be dealt with swiftly, without all the shilly-shallying that goes on now.
This is what happened in the past, when we had less police, and there was no Managerial State using the police as gunthugs and revenue collectors.