Fucking Cops

[The Grand Nudger]

And what would you be saying, I wonder, if when the cops had the chance to take him out, but didn't and he went on to walk into a school and kill fifty kids?

-ignoring how absurdly rare that an event like that is...and how purile it makes the question in context....I'd call it a tragedy - but nothing that any cop could have or should have prevented in such a manner.  Unfortunately (or fortunately, imo) our system is set up so that you actually have to -commit- said crime before that crime can be used as a justification for why the state acted against your interests.  Committing some other crime does not immediately invite such wonderment, and I'm appalled at how quickly discussions go from zero to douche whenever this line is drawn in the sand. We could end a hell of alot of crime before it ever occurs if we just let the cops go out on random citizen duckshoots every morning. We don't..because it's a bad idea. It doesn't become a better idea if the citizens being shot have committed some other crime. Or, in this case..rather than shot..run over. Personally, I -do- care that this guy got run over....and I bet you'd want me to care..if it were you.

Whatever happened to being handcuffed, tossed in a jail cell, and being put on trial? When did everything become a potential shooting and/or maiming offense...and when did we become okay with this? I think that cops might want to take a lesson from Barney, and keep their bullets in their pockets (along with their car keys..apparently...is there anything that they can be trusted with ffs?)