Imagine just doing your best to help your local community by building some online community notice board, only for a rabid horde to start picketing your house, shouting ALL PROGRAMMERS ARE BASTARDS!!!
If programmers were resulting in deaths in my community, I'd be picketting right with them with "I'm a programmer. Please hold me accountable. End qualified immunity for programmers."
assert great_power == great_resposibility
Etc
I'm not saying all or even most cops are bastards. But there's a non-trivial number of bastards, and the harm they've done to the communities they police (and to other cops, honestly) is immense.
Won’t lie, I’d probably hop outside and join them.
That's the reality for a huge amount of people.
Bad cops are extremely rarely seriously punished, and its ever rarer for other cops to finger them for it.