How Fear Infects, Ctd

by Patrick Appel

A reader writes:

to keep in mind is that police officers are required to walk into
to participate in events from which the rest of us are entitled
even advised - to shy away.

That fact, I think, is part of the reason why police officers are less likely to be convicted for shootings for which theywould be punished if they were not police officers. I'm not chasingafter a guy identified by a bloodied victim as having raped her; I'mnot supposed to confront him...