Peggy Noonan

The Uvalde Shooting Videos and the Future of Policing

[T]his is a good time for us to start to remember and restore the true stature of the policeman’s job, and to allow him satisfaction that he followed a calling—providing physical protection to law-abiding citizens and protecting them from human evil is most rightly seen as a vocation, a calling—that is understood to be an admirable one.