Why are you so quick to come to the defense of a 'government' organization? Last time I checked, police were part of government. Is it because they "protect" us? Did they protect the girl? Did they protect the neighbors from GUNs (oooohhh, shiver...)?
Cops are people and make mistakes. Unfortunately, the police ranks are filled with immature males that need some aging to ripen. They are capable, fit, and have a good head on their shoulders, but the macho instinct can often lead to things like this. These people are lucky they don't live in Atlanta w here they shoot 88 year old women and then try to cover it up...
Because I try to read articles critically for facts, not just the spin the writer wants me to take. And because when we give cops a ~duty~ to go out and enforce law in places that aren't always safe and aren't always pleasant, we owe them some measure of respect and benefit of the doubt. Cops don't get up in the morning and decide to go kill some girl's dog, they're put in difficult situations sometimes. This writer is spinning it for sure, but even through that, I could see a lot of room for the officers having a different perspective than this family on what happened.
I'll bet you dollars to donuts that there were far, far fewer problems like this back in the days when the vast majority of cops came out of the military.
ops are people and make mistakes. Unfortunately, the police ranks are filled with immature males that need some aging to ripen. They are capable, fit, and have a good head on their shoulders, but the macho instinct can often lead to things like this. These people are lucky they don't live in Atlanta w here they shoot 88 year old women and then try to cover it up...
The problem is that by the time many of them are mature enough to be a good police officer, they have their twenty years in and are retired.