I am not in favor of cops, necessarily, at all. But consider. There were many, many cops that worked to save the kids, while these four stood outside. The big BUT is, these were county cops. County cops are generally required to stay our of the way in city problems, unless invited by the city to help. In other words, there were plenty of city cops around, and these county guys were not invited or authorized, and standard policy is that they stay out. The decision to break policy is a difficult one for a cop, especially in the face of all those city cops that responded.