Cosatogjoe -
In 20 years I attended 12 funerals - some were colleagues, some were friends and one was my best friend and brother-in-law. It'd be a good time for you to do a post listing all the good things police have done over the years, the heroism under fire, the dying to save a brother officer or the laying down of his live to save a citizen.
I can tell you a case where an officer ran to save a fallen comrad and in the process took a fatal bullet. Had I gotten there a few minutes earlier maybe we could have "deprived some downtrodden citizens of their right to a trial."
I know there are excesses but in general I find the police haters to be unreasonably fearful of lawful authority without which we'd haved anarchy.
