I’m afraid you don’t just sound like a liberal.... I’m afraid you think like one, too. Did you ever read any “Dick Tracy” comics from the 1940s or 50s? What happened to crooks who shot at cops? Look some up on the Internet and tell me Grady Judd has some radical new idea.
Sometimes even the proverbial blind squirrel gets acorns too.
“Conservative” has itself become a caricature. It has embraced things, like the futile frontal assault “war on drugs” that were introduced to America by, yep, the “Progressive” set.
Way back when, it used to mean being Godly which also entailed the patience that God called for.
The very idea of an elite police is itself “Progressive.” Tell me this, did Cowboy Dick ever assemble a posse even ONCE?
No, he did not. He was the Rock Jawed Single Handed Hero.