A lot of cops are shitheads who never outgrew their grade school playground bully phase.
Every applicant goes through several psychological evaluation and they are hired based on the results that show they can enforce the laws and police using abusive and oppressive tactics.
Folks in the U.S. Armed forces are trained better than cops.
They carry bigger badder weapons than what cops carry but often do you hear of military personnel, especially the boots on the ground, the soldiers, shooting and killing innocent people?
Especially when those soldiers are always in areas that anyone around them could be an enemy combatant or a terrorist waiting to ambush them;
but you don't hear about an Army or a Marines squad or platoon or company while patrolling through an Iraqi city or an Afghanistan village
who got trigger happy and massacred every innocent woman, child, baby, man in a village they passed through, do you?
There are many areas of Afghanistan where the civilian population walks around carrying AK-47s like it was a briefcase or a purse or a wallet.
That doesn't make them Taliban or Al Qaeda or ISIL/ISIS terrorists and they are no threat to anyone.
But you don't hear about U.S. Army or U.S. Marines soldiers walking through those areas and shoot and kill everyone they see who is toting an AK-47.
Sure there has been cases throughout history of U.S. soldiers killing innocent civilians but they are very rare and isolated.
@Chung:
I haven't heard about the
incident.
Weird.
You'd think I would have heard about it.
I had to go look it up.
That incident and many like it back up my previous remark in my OP:
you call the Police for help nowadays and you may wind up to be the one arrested or killed by the Police.
WHAT HAPPEN to that cop that killed the homeless woman while shooting at a dog that wasn't even a threat to him?
Where was that?
Arlington?