Time to Reestablish the Concepts of Duty and Accountability  Kurt Schlichter  Posted: Jun 02, 2022

Kids are getting killed and you have a badge and a gun and you just sit there?

For an hour?

What the hell?

I’m trying to figure out the thought process and I can’t nail it down. Were they just listening to their Beto-donating boss? Were they tactically inept? Were they cowards?

Duty is a demanding mistress, which is why they call it “duty” and not “fun.” You get to walk around in your uniform with people thanking you for being a first responder, which is nice. You have to deal with the hassles of taking out society’s trash, certainly. And sometimes maybe you die.

Now, I’ve pointed out these obvious truths on Twitter in the wake of this black eye to law enforcement – and it is yet another one. After the defund-the-police fiasco drew skirmish lines between cop supporters and the cop haters, a lot of cops – too many – chose to comply with ridiculous COVID fascism. That lost cops a lot of friends, and they didn’t have too many to start with. Now the ruling caste is telling us we need to disarm because criminals are running rampant and to rely on the cops and then this disgraceful incident happens. Law enforcement, I’ve been a supporter since sheriff’s deputies sat around our kitchen table as my DA mom wrote them search warrants, but it's time you hear the truth: you are running low on friends, so maybe don’t alienate anyone else for a while

The pushback to my and others’ observation that this is a total failure that goes beyond mere failure into the realm of MEGA failure has drawn pushback from some cops and their fans. It's not like we have ever personally busted down a door, goes the thinking, so we should not second guess the guys who do.

Well, there are a lot of problems with that line of thinking, starting with the lack of timely busting down of doors. This is not some highly technical tactical scheme that we’re unable to accurately assess as non-LEOs. If kids are getting shot, you kill the guy doing it or die trying.

Here is the hierarchy of lives that matter in this scenario in descending order of mattering:

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