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like Deputy United States Marshal Bill Degan. As i enforcement leaders and managers, we owe them our complete support and must strive to give them the best guidance possible. We rely upon the men and women of law enforcement to do their best job under very difficult circumstances. In return for protecting us, we vest them with a measure of discretion and ask them to use their best judgment. Sometimes, as human nature tells us, that judgment may be imperfect and mistakes will happen. As long as we ask them to be in the arena, to be ready in the middle of the night to take cover behind a tree or a mailbox, to put their lives and the well-being of their families in the line of fire, we must show some empathy and compassion for their human fallibility. This is particularly true as we judge with the calm, well-lighted knowledge of hindsight, far from what the Supreme Court calls "split-second judgments -- in circumstances that are tense, uncertain and rapidly evolving."1 'graham v. Connor, 490 U.s. 386, 397 (1989). 20