Most cops are good people. Some are either stupid or evil and are willing to shoot a Golden Retriever that has reached adult height but is still clearly a puppy. Only a small proportion of cops are bad, but that’s enough to tarnish the reputation of the entire profession with many people. A Golden? Really? This shooting was inexcusable.
If only a small proportion is corrupt, then why then has the officer not been treated as an non-police officer committing the same crime would be?
Would the police permit *your* employer to hold an internal investigation about whether you had committed a crime?
Would the police decide not to arrest you after you had shot another citizen’s golden retriever?
Until the “good” ones do everything in their power to get the bad ones off the force, they deserve to be painted with the same brush.
Cop, soldier, politician, lawyer, teacher, pastor, I don’t care, you deserve to be judged by the worst behavior you tolerate in a peer. Everybody on the other side of the ‘blue line’ is responsible and no better than the worst cop they don’t do everything in their power to get off the force.