I am not going to dispute your points.  I&#x27;ll just say that painting all cops with the same brush is as fair as painting all Muslims as terrorists.  Which is to say it isn&#x27;t fair at all.<p>Their jobs are unimaginable to most of us, particularly when they work difficult areas.  One of the cops from my Aikido dojo is in a gang task force.  One day he entered this room (I can&#x27;t give too much detail) and had a full clip emptied in his direction just as he closed the door.  To this day he has no clue why not one bullet hit him.<p>Not one of us outside law enforcement or military service is equipped to understand what it would mean to wake up every day and go to work doing THAT job.  It&#x27;s far too easy to be angry at videos on youtube from behind a keyboard.<p>Again, I am not pushing back on anything you said.  Your opinion could be exactly on point.  I don&#x27;t know and I won&#x27;t take sides other than to say, perhaps take the time to go talk to a cop or two human-to-human in order to understand their plight.  Buy them a cup of coffee and tell them there are a few things you&#x27;d like to understand.  You know, they are sons, daughters, fathers and mothers, they are people, just like you and I.  And yes, there are assholes in there just like in any other population.<p>I am not defending the assholes, but, yes, the vast majority of good cops out there deserve our thanks and respect for doing a job most of us might not want to do.  Let&#x27;s walk in their shoes a bit and avoid lumping them in with the assholes you see on youtube.