Cops, teachers, and health care workers: Is there any limit to how much crap they are given?

[gulliver]

5. Cops are a two-edged sword.

Cops are vital to the preservation of order, and there are essentially no (democratically) legitimate sources in the Dem party that dispute that. Republicans, of course, take great glee in saying that Dems are anti-cop, but it's just a lie. We're for good policing and against bad policing.

To that end, one way of getting good policing is to stop giving so much crap to cops, mainly in terms of their work, but also, to a much lesser extent, in terms of invalid criticism. If you want good cops, you have to make the job tenable. You have to promote a situation where the very best people who should be cops are.

It's hard to do that when you have Republican-caused problems like the Drug War, gun chaos, and sympathy for racism creating horrendous crap problems for the police profession. My conclusion is that Republicanism is bad for policing at the profession level and, therefore, a leading detriment to law and order at the policy and political levels.