No, it probably has more to do with their stupid obsession with wanting to play soldier, without the risk. They want to turn their own backyards into war zones. You can't pick up a paper without a report of a cop somewhere emptying a few magazines into an innocent or at least killing their dog. As soon as police start acting like police again and give up the drama that they crave, they will start getting support and respect again. If they can't get respect on Free Republic, you know that something is wrong.
” As soon as police start acting like police———— “
I grew up in the forties-——they were hardly officer friendly to teenage boys,or minorities.
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