So what level of police mistakes (or malfeasance as in the recent Atlanta case) are acceptable to you? 1 in 3? 1 in 10? Or is it always Ok as long as it happens to someone else and not you?
What is acceptable to me personally is irrelevant. Again, I did not say killing an innocent was OK. What I am saying is mistakes happen. People screw up.
Welcome to the real world.
Things don't always go as planned and sometimes people get hurt or killed. If it were a perfect world, we wouldn't need law enforcement because everyone would obey the laws. But it's not a perfect world, so we have law enforcement who, like everybody else on this planet, are human beings who make mistakes and screw up. Some are corrupt, like in any organization, but not all.
Up until recently, this forum had a steady flow of cop bashing and a lot of people seeming to claim that all cops are just jack booted thugs with a badge and a gun who are out solely to screw with the lives of the law abiding citizens of this country. I'm glad the moderators got tired of that paranoid BS because "The man is out to get me" statements just make people, who just happen to come across the forum while surfing, think we are all just foil hat wearing nuts who have dangerous guns and its only a matter of time before we use those guns to shoot at random people.
Police officers screw up like everybody else. They have a tough job. They go to work every day knowing that there is a chance that they might not make it home again because some crackhead who doesn't want a speeding ticket decides to put a bullet in their chest when the police officer was making a "routine traffic stop".
I'm not excusing the mistakes that are made. I just accept the fact that s**t happens. If it happens to me some day, so be it.
