A Sheriff’s spokesperson just made a comment that “If you help someone escape, you are just as guilty as the other person. We will hunt you down just like we will hunt down someone who shoots one of our deputies and justice will be served”.
I think I got the quote exact.
I think it is great they will “hunt them down”. But, do we always have to make it a major-capital-crime-worse-than someone else’s murder or shooting when a Cop is shot?
I mean, it’s wrong to shoot a cop, granted, but they are doing a job they volunteered for. Definitely a “hero’s job”.
What about innocent people who aren’t doing those jobs who get murdered, or shot? Don’t they deserve the same “anger”?
I think they do
However and unfortunately, we have had a rash of deputies shot here in FL this year.
Read any of my posts (and even my tag line) and you'll wuickly see that I am ANTI JBT, but very pro-LEO. Sounds like a contradiction, but it really isn't.
The justice for killign a LEO or a civi should be equally as swift and certain. The perp should get a fast trial right before his hanging. To hell with life sentences.
A lot of has to do with “one-of-our-own†mentality. However it isn’t restricted to police officers. If a taxi driver is robbed and killed on the job you will see fellow drivers take to the streets demanding justice. If a firefighter dies in a home illegal converted into apts for 20+ individuals, you will see fellow firefighters demand the landlord’s head. Etc.
I think they do
You're right, and most innocent people who get murdered do receive the same outcry from the public. But for the most part, most person's killed are not "innocent."
They run in the circles that violent death is a high risk factor. Their families are just as sad about them being murdered as you or I would be if our brother got killed. But the general public couldn't care less.
A bigger deal is generally made of a cop being killed because he/she represents our efforts at order in society. It says that disorder is winning when someone assaults a police officer and killing one is the hightest symbol of disorder.
It scares most folks because, "if that person would kill a cop then he'd have no problem killing me."
The biggest problem is when a community is in denial about how the evil folks are really there every day and the cops are trying to hold them at bay.
When that happens you end up with "shocking" news stories. Shocking news stories that come one after another but for some reason nobody wants to connect them into a pattern of evil that lives among us. They are "outlyer" events and people tsk tsk the story and move on.