It’s not about value. It’s about risk. That if the perp was willing to kill a member of LE, the perp was a greater risk to the public at large.
as opposed to
Mr. Remeta, who is 33 years old, has been convicted of killing six people in a succession of robberies and shootings that stretched from Michigan to Texas to Florida in 1985. He is awaiting execution for the murder of one of them -- Chet Reeder, a 60-year-old convenience store clerk in Ocala, Fla., whose cash register yielded $52.this person and manyother like him?
Your post contradicts itself. You say its not about value its about risk. Then you go on and justify it by saying the perp was a risk to the public at large......
Allow the common citizen to defend himself, with anything at his disposal, and the need for police would reduce.
Also, it is a myth that police are there to protect you. Legally they are not charged with your protection.