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Who wants anyone killed?

The post was self-explanatory.
However, I'll break it down:
A goodly majority of 'Freepers' like to take the easy road and assume that the 0.5%-1.0% of bad police officers define all police officers.
Secondly, (and most importantly) a goodly majority of 'Freepers' like to assume, with no good reason, that local and county police are the same as Federal Police in Iran or Saudi Arabia.
These goodly majority of Freepers then make overt and disparaging remarks that lead many to assume that these Freepers would wish ill will on all local police.
The police-hating on FreeRepublic can be very disconcerting, when considering the amount of police<-->public interactions that happen any given day (probably upwards of 200,000 plus interactions per day) and only 0.5% to 1.0% of those interactions result in anything remotely "unlawful" being done by the police officer.
FreeRepublic s full of conservatives whom complain about being stereotyped as gun-toting, bible-thumping, preppers.....yet turn around and hypocritically assume that all city & county police are slaves of the federal government and are no different than Iranian Secret Police.

On a side note:
The biggest cop-hating "boogie-man story" that gets spit out lately seems to be that local and county police will somehow be empowered to go doo-to-door and confiscate legally owned guns. What utter poppycock nonsense. The Federal Government already doesn't trust local law enforcement, why in the world would they give them such a task when obviously federal police and military would be required to do such a thing.
As a police officer in a medium-sized city department I know of no officer whom swears allegiance to the almighty federal government, nor do I know of any of us or county or state police that would stand by and assist a federal overthrow of the US Constitution.
Local and County police are given their law enforcement powers by their respective cities and counties NOT by the federal government. The FBI, DEA, DHS, SS, etc has no command and control over local and county police....they can't roll in and tell us what to do specifically in the context of some sort of federal take over of our rights and constitution.

But ultimately, it's easiest for the weak-minded and conspiracy theorists to assign their fears to those they see most (local police are seen the most and therefore become the Federal Boogie Man). Any position of authority automatically means they are evil to those that can't take the time to learn how to differentiate between things.
There's a lot of FreeRepublic "Conservatives" that chose to believe their ill-thought assumptions as opposed to try to learn the truth or even better yet....get a grasp on common sense.