This may have been sarcasm, but it's true.
Why do you think more and more warrants are being served by swat teams?
I'm sure you watched Boston go into paralysis over a teenaged "terrorist" on the run.
These guys are trained to look after their own and to stay safe. There are LEO's and there are civilians.
There was a time that when they were paid to risk their lives for the safety of the citizen.
Now the only targets they use for training are "citizens" and "perps", both of them "civilians".
Well they are called “safety officers”. It’s their own safety that they are concerned with, and I think being unionized has a lot to do with it. Imagine if the unions could get our military unionized? They succeeded with the TSA.
The police dept is increasingly populated with bullies who are also cowards.
Police departments do not want the general public to know how much of the department would run away if faced with opponents just as numerous and as well armed as themselves.
Look at what happened with the police during Katrina and the Rodney King riots.