Focus on Crime, Not Police-Bashing

I was outraged by your article on self-defense shootings (March 12). If anyone thinks police officers welcome any kind of shooting, you’re living in a dream world. Medal of valor recipients are given those awards because they saved lives, not because they took them. Our community is real life, not a textbook.

Stop making the police department the bad guys and concentrate on the real problem: crime. Get back into the real world and find the solution to the problem where it actually emanates from, the criminal element.

Stop police-bashing.

DIANE RAMIREZ

Westlake Village