'We need brave, ethical police officers, and we need their leaders to be competent and accountable. None of that was on display in Uvalde this week.' The latest from senior columnist mattklewis:
This isn’t police-bashing. This is a call for basic accountability and humanity.I’ll be the first to admit that I’m too much of a wimp to sign up to be a cop. But once you sign up for that gig, it seems to me that you might want to be ready to do your jobOkay, I know that very few rank-and-file officers would unilaterally go all “Dirty Harry”—disobeying their superiors’ orders and rushing to confront the bad guy with brute force.
I accept that I might be labeled a keyboard warrior who is trying to tell the police what to do. And as someone viscerally averted to violent conflict, I’m certain I would be a very bad cop—which is why I never became one. But I’m not inherently hostile to the police. My father-in-law was a cop for years, and my dad was a correctional officer for 30 years . This isn’t police-bashing. This is a call for basic accountability and humanity.
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