That's easy to say when they're not your "material items."
More evidence that cops are just gang-bangers with badges.
“Again they were after material items that could be replaced and again our biggest fear is that somebody would have gotten hurt, injured and possibly even died.”
How does morales know what all they were after? They could have abducted her or killed for the fun of it. The only thing she did wrong was to miss.
John Lott has done research indicating that most real policemen don't agree with this oily affirmative action flunkie mouthpiece "spokesman."
Most real cops know that in the crunch you will need to protect yourself. If they have to show up later at a crime scene, they'd rather the corpse be the bad guy than the citizen.
Notice the assumption that the robbers want nothing
more than material items.