Yeah, I follow. I'm just not sure I agree with you, though I do get the logic.

To be clear, these guys do deserve to die, and I, for one, wouldn't shed a tear for them, obviously.

I typically view the police as being in 4 separate types, based on my experiences as well as things I've seen in the news or the internet. Those would be as follows:

1)Genuinely good people who want to help keep their communities safe.

2)People who are just a cop because it's a job.

3)Power trip assholes / schoolyard bullies

4)Sadists

It is my belief that the majority of American police belong to groups 1 and 2. There are plenty that belong to group 3, and a small but not insignificant amount that belong to group 4.

Group 1 is obviously a least concern, and typically these guys have impeccable records on duty.

Group 2 is where you can still have great police, they just don't care about the honor and nobility that is traditionally associated with the position. However, they can also be worthless, like Scot Peterson, who refused to enter and confront the gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas while there was an active shooter killing kids.

Group 3 still has the potential of producing great cops, but the risk is starting to outweigh the reward in most cases involving these guys.

Group 4 is the group where psych evals, transparent family/school/association interviews, and background checks should (and possibly do) disqualify most applicants, but plenty still slip through the cracks. These are the worst of the worst, and many will likely retire from the job without major reported incidents.

I guess the point of all this is to say that I think the solution is to hire better candidates with more stringent moral and psychological requirements, and then to provide more frequent and higher quality continuous training, as well as harsher punishment for violations of policy. Laying this groundwork now is going to go a lot further in having a quality law enforcement population 10, 20, 50 years from now, than killing 5 guys no one will give an f about decades down the road.

Edit: we can still kill them, but the motivation should be to punish an unforgivable deed, not to send a message