> It's rhetoric like this that makes cops feel obligated to protect each other from other citizens. Heh. First off, it's cops killing people, and then being sq

> It's rhetoric like this that makes cops feel obligated to protect each other from other citizens. Heh. First off, it's cops killing people, and then being squeamish about it (very contrary to how they'd deal with a civilian guilty of the same thing) that make people use these words. Secondly, there are of course many factors that go into stuff like this; many benign like simple solidarity, some potentially sinister, like being involved in things you'd be shunned for by most of society - such as killing unarmed people and then lying about it - which is an incredibly powerful bonding agent. > maximum legal effort But here too, this means very different things on both sides of the "blue line", doesn't it.