I understand your issue. My argument is basically that the police are officers of the law. Our constitution guarantees us the right to a fair trial. Furthermore, the police are supposed to protect us and they should be willing to put their own lives on the line to do so. Instead, the opposite is true. Police view their lives as more important than those they are supposed to serve since they usually assume that certain individuals are criminals without enough information to do so. If you ask me, when officers of the law have the power to take a life for any reason... there's just no justice to be found. Instead, there is tyranny. Police taking a life because they feel threatened is essentially them taking the law into their own hands, rather than enforcing the law as it is.

I agree it is a big responsibility but it is still 12 deaths vs one assault (I don't take "assault" to mean death but maybe you meant it that way). I don't think police lives matter more OR less I think all lives matter, I am not just saying that I think a lot about the families of people who die in these situations. Like maybe one of those dozen police has a 14 year old daughter now she doesn't have a dad, maybe one has an elderly parent depending on them. All of them will have multiple people like that this would affect so many lives. I do understand your basic point I just think it is too much, 12 deaths!