My issue is the way cops are trained now. The concept of being a “Peace Officer” has just gone out the window (i.e. that the cop’s job is to “keep the peace”).
Now I think they are being trained as some sort of quasi-militarized enforcement squad. The kind of police you have in hard left regimes and/or dictatorships. I think cops are now taught to “over-react” - to do “takedowns” no matter what the situation. This is extremely creepy behavior. This ‘us vs them’ mentality cops seem to have nowadays is also a bit twisted. That’s the attitude in a dictatorship - not in the United States!
I went looking through news about it - here’s what they say about the Marine:
“A Marine shot to death by an Orange County sheriff’s deputy in a high school parking lot was deeply religious and regularly took early morning prayer walks with his daughters, a supervisor said.
Sgt. Manuel Loggins Jr. was a devout Christian who walked at the San Clemente High School track with his family early in the morning, Maj. Christopher Cox told the Los Angeles Times”
“Loggins’ wife usually walked with the family but had stopped going because she is pregnant, Cox said.
“He was a mentor, somewhat of a father figure, to a number of the Marines,” Cox told the newspaper. “He was very soft-spoken, very nonconfrontational — very, very respectful. He was just the epitome of respect.”
“Loggins received multiple medals and commendations from the military.”
Sadly I believe you are right.
I had a talk many moons back with a cop who had been asked to join a SWAT Team in a large town, and both of us had the same opinion back then -- SWAT should only be under State control, not the individual local forces. Make the Governor and Legislature fully responsible for their actions in our neighborhoods, and keep the locals as Peace Officers. (He turned it down.) I'm not a cop, but I've known quite a few from years past and none I knew of were bad apples.