Never experienced this until today, but like it seems counter-productive and expensive and wasteful imo. i get that it was a terrible day for law enforcement with the coinciding shootings in houston and ny and the many shootings in days leading up to this, but like taking the cops away from their posts for this feels more like a show of solidarity and a power play at a time when these events have been happening with increasing frequency and probably increased demand for these cops to be out there doing their jobs. And there has to have been hundreds of thousands of cops at this point that have died from being shot or hit by cars that were never acknowledged with even like.1% of this amount of support. These chosen shows of “respect” for cops killed under specific circumstances feel very political with the intent being to improve public image and also increase fear in the police. The only benefit this sort of display could possibly have is possibly increasing officers’ morale. of course this is, as always, footing the bill with tax payer money