The authority of the police to kill members of the public, should always be a contencious issue, and always argued.
Senior members of the police force have publicly stated that, under an armed police force, innocents will be killed. And there have been many examples.
Frankly some of the views of senior police are so alien to me, as they should be to every member of the public, that they are reminiscent of some of the more insane ideas of members of the fabian society.
The death penalty was banned in the UK, because of the fact that there can never be absolute conclusive evidence of a persons guilt.
Therefore, even though in these circumstances, [arguably] the police should have the right to kill, to protect the public, however, if, the police get it wrong, the police themselves should be subject to the same justice as the rest of us.
Which is not happening. There are, unfortunately, a number of incidents, where the police have, killed innocents, and walked away scot free.
It seems obvious that this lack of accountability, runs the risk of engendering, a belief, that the 'authorites look after their own'
The system we are under at the moment does need addressing.
It should never be one rule for them [enforcers of the state] and one for us.