“One of the kenyan occupation troops letting off a little steam in the native village.”
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Maybe so, but I noted that American cops, even in small bedroom communities, were turning into jack-booted thugs back in the late 90s, just before I left.
Since I bought a sat dish last year and started watching movies for the first time in 8 years, I notice that “spectacular” violence has gone up unimaginable levels, and the once “good old boys on the beat” have turned into Nazi storm-troopers. I have also noted that the number of Afros in movies has exploded.
Did it suddenly get stupid in here?
My own small city has missed out on the developments we have both noticed all too much. This sheriff's department weeds out the video gamers and other sorts of psychos quickly if any get past the psych tests and the sheriff has a lot of influence with the city cops. It was pretty bad out on the Beach until a few years ago when their chief quit and ran for sheriff and was beaten better than 2-1 (The sitting sheriff did not even do ads). Now the Beach police are very much what the cops of our youth were. The only SWAT type activity is from the State and from the Feds and is heavily discouraged by the sheriff(the last 3 sheriffs, actually) and are rare.
Keep a mental note of what web sites and news channels you watch and what you read online. If following societal news and in particular crime, you have to be careful because you are oversampling. It will send you into a spiral of depression.
Not all black people want to kill you and not all cops are going to shoot your dog or shoot your grandparents during a 4:00 am no-knock raid.
It’s a real problem on FR, people need to temper their information intake to include normal stuff too.