Another law enforcement agency looks at violence and says “it’s the criminal’s fault, not ours”

San Mateo County is a good Progressive county.  That’s why it was a surprise to find this angry post coming from its Deputy Sheriff’s Association regarding a police officer who was killed in Indianapolis. What set the Deputy Sheriff’s Association off was a local media story sympathetically recounting the killer’s problems, including the last line in the story, which says it was the police officer’s own fault that he died because he was doing is job by trying to deal with an armed career criminal.  I can’t find anything to disagree with in this Facebook post.  How about you?

I think that police departments across America are grappling with the ultimate values clash: Their “government union” identity, which hews Progressive, is clashing with their “law & order” identity, plus their “I want to go home alive” identity, both of which hew conservative.