You have to understand, cops are not like regular people. Most of your civilized society is terrified of being over-run, robbed, raped by the hordes of barbarians lurking just beyond the gates of their communities. They see the crimes on the news every night and to them the police force is their bulwark against all of that. They can see themselves having some horrible crime committed against them and needing to call 911 for help. They cannot afford to not rationalize every action of the police no matter what.
The respect and admiration you have for law enforcement personnel is directly proportional to how much of a pussy you are and how much you know about your average cop. Your fear makes you long for a hero, a savior, some John Wayne character to come save your weak ass from the bad guys. Most cops are not heroes and they are the furthest thing from “good people”. You don’t survive long dealing with the dregs of the community if you have a whole lot of empathy, and you don’t take a job with long stretches of boring, empty time if you are smart and talented either.
A cop can kill you tomorrow, just on a whim, for no reason whatsoever, and I guarantee that his punishment will be less than your average citizen who did the same thing. And very few people see anything wrong with that. You see they want to cling to the hero-fantasy, they want to believe that if the cop shot somebody they deserved it, and that desire to believe overrides common sense and any sense of right and wrong that they might otherwise have.
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