A family member used to pay an outfitter for hunting trips in Canada. Usually for caribou or moose. There were usually a small group of hunters from all over the US. Many from New York/New Jersey.

So, everyone would pay $5,000 or so to stay at a back country lodge and be guided to good blinds on prime hunting ground for caribou. Not a canned hunt to be sure but definitely a guided experience but you were not guaranteed a caribou or moose. The east coast hunters were primarily unskilled and inexperienced hunters who "wanted to kill something" and take a trophy home.

Each trip he went on there were at least one NYPD cop or fireman (sorry but true) and these were always the last to get a caribou if they got one at all. They were impatient. Wouldn't set up well or have a decent hide. And then would bitch, piss and moan at the outfitter after everyone else got their caribou and they hadn't even gotten off a shot. They would shoot anything that moved. The guide warned them, as I recall that it was against the law to shoot the caribou when they were swimming across a large river.

Inevitably, at the end of the trips you would find the New York cops shooting at swimming caribou. They would then commandeer a small boat and try to go grab the carcass and drag it back to shore and fail half the time and then attempt to shoot another one and start all over again.

These NY cops had paid money for a guided hunting experience. Not a canned hunt with the guarantee of a killing experience and a trophy to take home. They were going to kill something and there was no stopping them. The Canadian guides and the midwestern/southern hunters hated them to a man.

Similarly, I believe, many people join the police force to kill something. I truly do. It's a contract to them and they intend to be remunerated. The repeated dispatch calls over the years are a cumulative big game hunt. And they are implicitly promised excitement, risk and a kill because well, that's what cops do. Anything less is breach of contract. If they don't get to kill something because there are no deserving criminals (caribou), then they decide to cheat and find a way to go out of bounds and kill something anyway. How can you go home without having even discharged your weapon, night after night? How after all those years on the job can you not be blooded?