Why are law enforcement officers lives deemed more valuable, more

[niyad]

worthy, than others?

This is a question I have puzzled over for years, brought to the fore amidst all the ongoing insanity, by Leonard Peltier's sentence commutation. wray and other leo's over these last five decades, screaming about this apparent monster, as if he had been personally using hot irons on the two fbi agents for weeks. The funeral of one of the three dead victims in the Planned Parenthood killings here, an officer. Nothing for the two civilians killed. And on, and on.

Wny?

[Walleye]

1. Maybe because, an attack on a police officer is an attack on the law.

[niyad]

3. And other murders are not? robert dear murdered three people at PP,

objecting to a law, and he did not care who he killed. Two of them were civilians, whose lives, and deaths, were almost completely ignored, while the coverage of the officer was wall-to-wall non-stop until after his funeral.

[SheltieLover]

2. This has always driven me nuts, too!

Same with schools, attack a teacher, get punished. Attack another student, get a gold star on your forehead!

I won't even start on how revolting I find "zero tolerance" policies. Do they really feel a need to revictimize victims who dare to defend themselves? Fuck that.

[Wonder Why]

4. Theoretically, because they are putting their lives on the line for fellow citizens. But too often, it's only theory.