“They believe they are above the law and they feel this child was simply collateral damage - despicable.”
That is the problem. We are only collateral damage. Collateral damage is fine during military operations. That is war, and war is ugly. But LE is not war. The issues that cause collateral damage are not present.
While I believe in fighting drugs, it was a serious mistake to allow police to adopt military terminology. Quite frankly, they need to drop all the military crap. Ranks, ribbons, medals, terminology, etc. They are in a civilian environment, and they need to behave like it.
Letting them play soldier, with 4 start ‘generals’ and more fruit salad than Patton is not going to get them to remember where they are.
‘While I believe in fighting drugs, it was a serious mistake to allow police to adopt military terminology. Quite frankly, they need to drop all the military crap. Ranks, ribbons, medals, terminology, etc. They are in a civilian environment, and they need to behave like it.’
Interestingly in many PD’s such as Chicago actually being competent with firearms and having a real interest in use of various guns is discouraged by the administrative culture of the department. It is called being a ‘gun nut’ and by inference being a ‘right wing Constitutionalist nut’. Go figure what that says about those who run these departments.