Not blindly but with a full understanding of the job, the risks and the human detritus that they have to deal with daily

Of course but Police Officers are still just people at the end of the day and if it turns out some of them are making stupid errors while holding a lethal weapon in their hands then surely for the benefit of both the public they're serving and the reputation of the ones who are actually good at their jobs, they need to be taken out of the force? Doesn't that make sense? :shrug:

Not when they murder and maim people. Things will never get better when there are people like you who believe people in uniforms are beyond criticism.

The vast majority of these incidents in the end come down to errors either through incompetence, or perhaps more often and more worryingly, not incompetence or inability, but simple arrogance, ignoring procedure (which is there for a GOOD REASON) and going off all John McClane. Or even Judge Dredd might be more accurate.

It wouldn't be accepted in any other profession, and if anything, the standards should be even higher when it comes to armed police officers. Not lower.

Tbh you've said it all for me Niamh.