Police need to stop shooting dogs, civilians in no-knock raids, and for that matter assembling SWAT teams for anything and everything. They have militarized to the point that to “protect and serve” is laughable, and their conduct is no different than that of paramilitary death squads, assassinating citizens. (For example, shooting on the two vans seen as possibly holding Dorner, to say nothing of Guerena and many others.) Police also routinely support gun control, e.g. the cops arresting the soldier who had 5 normal-cap mags in his car in NY.
My question about how many cops were on scene where 7 of them shot at the (wrong-make-and-model) blue pickup truck was never answered. But just in case there were only 7 there, then 100% of those officers are “bad apples.” There would need to have been 700 there for the 7 who actually did shoot to have made the bad-apple content be just 1% of the force, statistically. But I’d bet there were a lot fewer than 700, meaning, the bad-apple fraction is very much more than 1%. If it’s 10% or 99% I don’t know, but it sure isn’t 1%.
And the police officers involved in the shooting of the pick up with the newspaper deliverers have been suspended and I believe at least one has resigned.
Your post suggests that you think that ALL police do this SALLthe time. My experience is indeed different than that.
My question to you would be....with a murderous psychopath on the loose how long should you wait before you shot?