A few years ago an officer around here was shot. The statement by the commanding officer says it all, "This is different, this was one of us.".

As long as they view themselves as special and different from the rest of the population, we will always have a problem.

I doubt the officer meant to kill him for nothing, but rather just over reacted. I remember an officer coming to my school saying he had never drawn a gun in 30 years. Now they pull them in almost every circumstance. If the department pulls a gun a 20,000 times a year, there is a good chance someone will make a mistake. Thats human. Unf