From my seat, the alleged reckless murder of Renee Nicole Good (her name is robert paulson) appears to have made your job infinitely more dangerous.
If the alleged facts are even close to true, a law-abiding citizen who was a trained legal observer was allegedly murdered in broad daylight by masked individuals acting outside any lawful authority — what looks, to the public, like a quickly deputized band of common street thugs doing the devil’s work instead of enforcing the law.
That matters.
Because every single day city police, sheriff’s departments, and state troopers still have to put on a uniform, still have to patrol, still have to answer calls —
in an environment where now even the law-abiding prosperous citizens are looking at them with the same fear, suspicion, and contempt that marginalized communities have lived with for generations, for many of the same reasons.
And now, even the neighborhoods with open businesses, clean streets, and pretty cars are no longer safe spaces — not for civilians, and not for you.
So here is the question I want answered, honestly:
How does a profession built on lawful authority function when alleged unlawful violence is normalized, masked, and excused — and when officers are asked to enforce the law in a society that increasingly appears to tolerate people pretending to be above it?
I offer my sympathy for the position that puts you in.
I also want to know how you think we can fix this?
