To me, and yes, I am LE adjacent and believe in the necessity of cops and a standing army, we will always need some law enforcement. But we also need to hold cops accountable for bad deeds.
I keep hearing about this QI. However, when I was in training to carry a gun on duty, it was standard knowledge back in the 80s that when a cop shoots someone, he is technically suspected of alleged aggravated assault or murder until IA clears the shoot. In fact, my instructor mentioned a case in Chicago.
A patrol officer answered a call for a person in the courtyard of an apartment complex who was waving a gun around and threatening people.
So, he rolls up in a marked squad car with the lights going. Opens the door, draws his pistol because it is, indeed, a guy waving a gun around at people in a threatening manner. Identifies himself as a police officer and instructs the guy to drop his weapon and take 3 steps back.
The suspect decides to turn and shoot at the police officer. The officer returns fire, shooting once and killing the suspect.
Then, he shuts up and asks for his advocate. The supervisor takes his weapon as evidence and he is place in administrative leave while Internal Affairs investigates, which includes statements from other witnesses. He is cleared of wrongful death. It was a "righteous" shoot, as they say. He was not charged criminally and allowed to return to duty.
The reason this case was important was to highlight that the family still sued the cop and the department saying that he removed the suspect's civil rights when the cop shot him.
So, yeah, if we are going to do away with cops and rule of law, then none of us have rights that can be defended.
Pursue and punish bad cops.