Lots of statists in this thread. "It is okay to punish kidnappers, armed robbers and murderers, but if they have acted in the name of the state it is wrong to punish them and our duty to convince them that we are good people and do not deserve to be kidnapped, robbed and murdered. In the mean time we must allow them to abuse us because they are just people looking to provide for their families!" you all make me sick to my stomach and it is glaringly obvious that none of you law enforcement apologists have actually felt the consequences of the war on drugs in any more than an abstract sense. Maybe when you have friends doing life sentences over drugs, or have done some hard years in prison yourself, you will stop looking for every opportunity to suck off a cop that you can find. They are the ones who have treated human life as something that is worthless, they are the ones who must now experience the repercussions of that. Having a badge is not an excuse for violent crime. Period. There is not an excuse for what they do. It is injustice to not punish them. Really to think otherwise is just proof of your statist indoctrination.