> But to do their job, officers have to start from a solid foundation. They have to know their families are safe and taken care of, like anybody else. That thei

> But to do their job, officers have to start from a solid foundation. They have to know their families are safe and taken care of, like anybody else. That their community respects them. Wrong. Police do their jobs out of a sense of duty. They don't do it because it's a popularity contest. Respect is earned. For those officers that are genuine and honest, their community will see that. The problem is that when you wear a uniform, you lose lots of your personal characteristics and people see you for the aggregation of everything that other officers do. When thousands of NYC police officers turn their back on the mayor+president during a speech for sticking up for civil rights of the entire country, police officers lose respect from me. Police families are safer when they don't speed, or at least that's what our laws and our police tell us when we get pulled over. I'd prefer it if police families were kept in line just like those of us on the other side of the "thin blue line". > It's ethically questionable, of course. It's an abuse of prosecutorial discretion. You may want to read up on ethics. "Giving a free flu shot" isn't an ethical dilemma. Giving your neighbor's kids an experimental vaccine without their parents knowledge or consent is. > I've got way better, more important things to worry about than what's at heart, a personal matter for law enforcement officers. I'm a tax-paying citizen. When small acts of police corruption are tolerated in my name, that's not insignificant. Small acts, unchecked, give police the feeling that they can get away with larger acts. And this is coming from a guy with a cop in the family. His wife is already showing signs of questionable ethics. And she uses the same "They have to know their families are safe" argument.