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So one state trooper makes a bad judgement call and now the entirety of law enforcement is useless?
There seems to be a notion of non-police citizens who believe that police officers, state troopers, and sheriffs are mystical beings who never screw up and are basically superheroes who are to save the day. They're not. They're regular people like you and me who found themselves with a police job. They go through training and they're put on the street to deal with the psychopaths that are listed in the article. Is it possible that the police screw up: yes. This trooper should have arrested the guy, but he didn't. I'm sure there was a decent reason behind it also...
Where in the article does it say that the woman pressed charges? Nowhere. Where does it say the woman begged the trooper to take action and make the arrest? Nowhere. All it takes is the woman to hint at not wanting the guy to go to jail and he doesn't. The trooper did screw up by not following the manual, but discounting that, the woman has to be adamant about wanting the guy in jail, and in many DV cases the woman takes up for the man.
I can hardly see how one state trooper fucking up can mean that the thousands of police personnel in the world are falling apart or whatever. I used to place a negative aura around police until I started working for the department. I'm not an officer, but I deal directly with them everyday and it's not possible to imagine what bullshit they deal with every single day. HUNDREDS of police reports coming in everyday, dozens of domestic violence cases, homicides, false alarms, drug busts everyday and they never get a break. Their job is to FIX what's wrong with our country and it's an uphill battle that can't be won.
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