Thank you for your service. The comment stands I doubt all doing the sniping here are combat veterans. I would also guess there is a difference between military service and engagement and police engagement. Not saying one requires more courage or training than another just different
Just because we wouldn’t do the job doesn’t mean these cops aren’t doing the job poorly. Cops have had an us vs them mentality for a long time, many get trained that they are the Thin Blue Line, the only thing holding society together. This causes them to live in a world where there’s cops and there’s scum. And since they go out that door seeing all of us as the enemy they act accordingly, and we get killed.
Just look at the story, guy did WHAT THE COP TOLD HIM TO DO, and got shot. That is quite simply not right at all ever. Whether or not I would ever take the job has no impact on the simple fact that that cop is a murderer.