think same when the reality is cops are real people from diverse backgrounds and their individual opinions on this issue are equally diverse.

At the same time, most cops are not too quick to judge another's cops actions because while its easy to armchair quarterback a situation after the fact and say what a cop should or should've have done, but when you're in the heat of the moment sometimes things go bad. Most cops have been in intense situations where there was a potential threat and weapons were drawn and the majority of the time those situations are diffused without violence. But in the back their minds they all know that a minor detail such as a sudden move by a individual and the situation could have ended up a whole lot differently and that haunts them. They look at a lot of these other situations and say that could have easily been me.

Most cops don't put their uniform on in the morning say "I'm going to kill somebody today." They just want to get their shift in and go home to their families at the end of the night. But stuff happens, they get into those intense situations, adrenaline is flowing, they get scared and things go bad. People say "If you're scared then you shouldn't be a cop!" Well that's easy to say but I don't see the people saying that signing up to be cops. The reality is in most municipalities police officers are not that highly paid, so we get what we get. Most departments are understaffed as it is and when they do find money to hire some new police officers its equally as hard to find quality candidates. There aren't many Rhodes scholars signing up to be cops. Most of the rank and file cops don't even have undergrad degrees. But people expect them to be these super-intuitive & intellectual geniuses and they aren't.

Back to those intense situations, like I said the majority of them are diffused without violence. But sometimes they aren't. Sometimes police officers get hurt, sometimes they get killed. While it doesn't happen every day it does happen. As a police officer every day you go into work you walk past pictures on the wall of officers from your dept. who have died in the line of duty. In training those names are drilled into your head and you are told what not to do so you don't end up the same way.

And as for the whole, "why don't the good cops tell on the bad cops?", the problem is even "good cops", white, black, brown or yellow, occasionally do things that are illegal or not "by the book" even though it may be a good reason. It may be lying in a statement to get a legitimate bad guy off the streets that's about to walk on a technicality. They may let somebody slide that should be locked up but their a good person that's trying to turn their life around and has a family to support. Or you may have done something illegal and had to lie to cover your own ass. Everybody makes mistakes. Most cops worst fear is being locked up with the criminals they locked up. So when you start pointing out the dirty shit the "bad" cops are doing you open yourself up for everything you've ever done to be scrutinized. Its basically career suicide and you could be putting your life on the line as well.

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
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