Even as Violent Crime Falls, Killing of Officers Rises

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24. It would be gross understatement to say that they're asking for it...

The article also assumes, falsely, that everyone who kills a cop is trying to avoid a long sentence. In some cases, they're trying to avoid "killed while trying to escape" which would be virtually guaranteed if they gave themselves up. Or they're killing what appear to be insane thugs, who only turn out to be police afterwards. And this "insane thug" assumption is ALWAYS a reasonable assumption for a cop in riot gear, until they show otherwise.

I see FAR too many news articles on DU where the sensible response of a sensible society would be to either kill the cop like a mad dog to make them stop, or to instantly remove them from the public and keep them jailed until their trial, conviction, and sentencing (preferably under current guidelines rather than newer, more lenient ones).

And if the honest cops would support this, they could turn around police culture in America in a single generation.

Will they?

I know he's not a real cop, but face it, by both common sense AND by the laws of the state, Trayvon Williams had every right in the world to shoot George Zimmerman to death (and NOT vice versa). And we'd all be better off (possibly excepting the blacks who get killed or harassed in the white reprisals) if it had happened that way.

Of course, it would be EVEN BETTER if Zimmerman had never been allowed to prowl the streets alone, OR to own a weapon.