Know why I lump them all together?
Because when this crap happens, the good cops say nothing.
Whenever there’s some scandal inside law enforcement agencies, the vast majority of the cops clam up. They play the “us vs. them” game, where the “them” is the taxpaying public.
There’s clearly been a change in LEO tactics in the last five years, and their new tactic is to shoot first, never second guess a dog issue.
The other thing that really annoys me about LEO’s is the sanctimonious whining about how “dangerous” their jobs are. They carp and bellyache about how many of them die on the job every year.
What they don’t tell the public is where LEO deaths on the job rank vs. other jobs in the US. Commercial fishermen, loggers, farmers/ranchers, high steel construction, roofers, etc all have a higher rate of deaths/100,000 people on the job than LEO’s.
You don’t hear farmers and ranchers (for example) crying about how dangerous their jobs are and how you should be paying big bucks for their pensions and health care as a result, do you? Nor do we hear whining from commercial fishermen or loggers. They just do their job. Death is a bad thing, but these occupations know their work environment is dangerous, and the men and women in those occupations just suck it up and do it.
But none of these other occupations has the power to kill innocent citizens, or break down their doors with malice of forethought and incompetence, and then hide behind sovereign immunity and have the taxpayers pay for their defense. This is what really, really frosts me. There’s no natural limiting factor forcing LEO’s to exhibit some measure of competence, because they don’t have to pay for their own defense in court should someone finally bring justifiable legal action against incompetent or corrupt LEO’s.
Since when did you expect State power to be benevolent?
Sarcasm aside, we assuredly have the government we deserve. But look on the bright side. We’re proactively protected from hate chicken and rogue slurpees.
Very well said.
What has “gone wrong” is that DHS has named Americans as domestic terrorists and declared “war on terror.”
Police have been placed into a mentality of military occupiers. The population being invaded has no rights. The occupiers are into indimidation for total control of the enmey.