Commentary: The same code of silence haunts law enforcement and medicine

I once ran out into the alley in the back of my house to help a neighbor who had been shot in the belly by another neighbor. There had been some drinking involved, maybe a heated exchange, maybe some long-held resentments coming to the surface. No fisticuffs. Just a quiet moment taken to retrieve the weapon and a forceful ending of the argument. Most of us have no problem coming to the conclusion that the shooter is wrong, deserves to be punished and sent to jail, which indeed he was.

Why is it so different when the shooter is a police officer? Some will