In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me
This is a really well written article.  This also echo's alot of the sentiment that many people have.  I remember reading recently about the differences in police training from Germany vs the US.  One of the things that stuck out at me was the huge amount of hours they spend training to "not" shoot, and learning how to de-escalate situations.  It's no wonder we have so many issues here in the US, it makes me sad.