NYC shooter: I figure that it would have been worse

[nadinbrzezinski]

133. I am as well, I had to enforce it

and police stations are valid military targets. Care to ask why?

Or were they not considered valid targets in your version of it?

Paramilitary forces in case of war are considered combatants by the way, since well shit, they have been forced to fight with regular armies for a long time, well known examples are the liberation of where ad hoc police battalions (in police uniform no less) were thrown into the meat grinder and the front lines.

Examples for example range from the Siege of Budapest to modern interpretations under the War on Terror.

Sorry, but under many varied conditions your cops can end up as combatants and even acquire the status of POW in wartime.