You have some vaild points, but the idea that there is this race of human beings that CAN handle the stress and horror that cops deal with, and act flawlessly in every situation making perfect judgments under life threatening conditions....is just ridiculous....it denotes an unwillingness to deal with the real world and find real solutions.
I read all the time about some poor SOB in India who gets caught stealing something, and the neighborhood takes matters into their own hands and beat the poor bastard to death.....hell without the cops the so called innnocent public would tear each other to peices.How long would it take for Furgeson missuorri to burn itself to the ground without cops.
Playing the victim in America has replaced baseballl as the national pastime....we have movie stars and proffesional atheletes making millions bemoaning their lot in life, giving laughable interviews of the horrors of their lives in America from their poolsides as they are getting a massage....recently I read of a college proffesor who was trying to lay her painfull menustral cramps at the feet of "white privledge"...idiots like this woman are actually given a platforn for their lunacy, and actually given national attention....this kind of "stress" is legitamate, but cops...pulling fetuses out of dumpsters or dealing with abused childeren or human being transformed into zombies by drugs...we expect them to deal with a hell of alot more than the mythical microaggressions of the morons they serve.
We might also consider that the caliber of the people who we take as cops...I live in Oakland and the pay and perks for being a cop is pretty decent,but not for what you have to put up with...Oakland can't hire people to be cops here....nobody with half a brain or an ounce of sanity want to serve and protect the human floatsom of the american public.if we get the goverment we deserve we most likely get the cops we deserve.
I knew the "nobody is perfect" meme would show up. It's true of course. The problem is, most of the real world makes mistakes too. When we do, we pay the consequences. We get fired. We go to jail. We get hurt. That's part of life. For some reason, despite the higher costs of loss of life, health and often liberty, cops get a pass. It's a horseshit way out. If they fuck up they can pay the consequences for doing so. "Oopsy, you just shot a lady across the street walking her dog, shake it off",,,,,,,,does not cut it.
Making excuses "denotes an unwillingness to deal with the real world and find real solutions", using your words. Consequences go much much further to finding real solutions than making excuses. Everyone has an excuse for making a mistake. If all that can be offered is excuses and no consequences there will be no solution because consequences are the solution.