COPS GOING TO JAIL FOR MISTAKES

                                                                         
 
                                                                               By James Baker
 
 
 
 Deplorable!  A crying shame!  Unbelievable!  I say all of this because jail is for the evildoer. 
No one should be in jail if they aren’t an evildoer.  Luke 23.40-41.  Matt 27.19-23.  

Yet it is heartbreaking to see police officers make mistakes during the heat of battle resulting  in the death
of a person.  From what I have seen about good police officers, they attempt to save their lives as well as the life of the offender.  Officers can train at the academy, but no amount of training will be like the real thing when it happens. Many things don’t always work out as the officer might hope; because of the offender resistance, many officers are pushed into a fight with the criminal and in the heat of battle; who can say that everything will go as training at the academy taught?   

I agree that police officers, because of who they are should be held to a higher standard than the normal citizen.  But let us not forget that police officers are human beings and though we look to them as our savior against the bad guys, they are human and capable of making mistakes which may cause injury or death.  Mark 10.18.
 
A mistake is an unfortunate action which occurs because something is lacking. That something could exist because of the rapid pace of the moment or some other unforeseen condition.  Despite that, we must remember that the final action was not intended; it was a mistake.  2 Kings 6.4-6.  
 
I haven’t met a person who is incapable of making mistakes.  And yes, mistakes can be big and they can be small, but they are still mistakes, it wasn’t intended.   
 
Things got out of hand while a police officer is trying to stop a criminal and in the whirlwind of action something goes wrong. Someone gets hurt, someone dies.  The officer's intention was to stop the evil which the offender created along with the atmosphere which resulted in actions not going the right way. 
 
 No police officer can control the havoc which criminals cause, no police officer should go to jail trying to do what is right. If anyone goes to jail, it should be the criminal.  
 
The bad guy has the remote control in every crime which he commits.  If the criminal would comply with the officers commands a lot of this stuff, we saw on tv in the past few years would been
 non-existence. 
 
 But many of our courts have decided to punish the officers in attempts to pacify the vengeance many people call for.   If an officer goes to jail over a mistake, we pray that God will give that officer favor within the system and hopefully God will get that officer out of prison at some point.  Gen 39.20-23.