Originally Posted by
Wesley Mouch
Good balanced post.
I do think we've moved beyond the 'good ole boys network' days. But the lynch mobs demanding cops heads aren't satisfied even by pre-chosen grand juries, as we've seen in Ferguson.
Rogue acts by cops, I assert, are pretty well handled today. The much bigger problem for our urban safety is the second-guessing brigade who don't see the video of the armed car-jacking, and have never been around a cop trying to get a non-compliant suspect to comply [[as is the law). They just see the video of a cop thumping on somebody -- and then think there's always a better, magical way to do this. Well, there isn't. The guy's got a gun. And it takes just one bullet for you, a fellow officer, or a camera-phone totting cop hater is dead. Should you kick the guy with your knee to get him to give up, or do you just let him stand a grab his gun? What would you choose? What's best for our city?