BLOGGINGHEADS: Glenn Loury On Cops: They deserve ‘sympathetic regard… respect and gratitude’ for doing ‘a nearly impossible job… they’re not the enemy.’ I yield to no one in thinking that police need to be held accountable for misconduct, and that currently they’re not held sufficiently accountable. That’s not the same as treating them as the enemy. And, as I’ve noted, those doing so need to think hard about who the “thin blue line” is really protecting.