re: We've seen cops steal money, plant drugs on people, beat up elderly, get DUIs, overdose.

There are 2 steps we should take IMMEDIATELY which would make their jobs safer, infinitely safer, and make it less difficult.

The first is they need to stop doing no knock raids at the wrong fricking address. You would think it would be a fairly easy thing to do but no, they do it, according to most experts, hundreds of times a year across the country. They really ought to stop doing them at all but if they just feel like they can't do their job any other way make sure the damned address is right. They ain't delivering a pool float from Amazon they are engaged in some seriously dangerous (to them and the residents) shite, you'd think they would make a concerted effort to make sure they do it at the right house. I am certain they feel like they are making that effort but it keeps happening over and over again. If I were a cop I would stand back and let the morons who want to first through the door get ALL of that glory....in fact I would ALWAYS question the wisdom of kicking someone's door in anytime I was tasked with doing so....because it is about as aggressive an act as the state takes in the US and as we all know there are an awful lot of guns in the US....I ain't kicking nobodies door in, thats just me.

The second thing is stop with the fricking high speed driving, especially in inclement conditions. It is insane. Remover the number of cops killed or injured in the US in auto accidents every year and the job is safer than about the 50 most dangerous jobs in the US. Remove no knock warrants and its about the 75th. Keep them and it doesn't crack the top 25. Both are simply insane.