Less than 1% is ‘out of control’?
How many times did cops save dogs? Or save lives? Why don’t we hear about those things? I think it’s a simple, fair question? Why do we just hear about the bad?
I was a cop in a low income/high crime city. I saw what many people never see. I listen to the comments people make without having a clue as to how police work or what goes on in cities like the one I worked in. I see the lies the media puts forth to paint cops in a bad light and see too many people duped into believing the lies.
I am not denying that there is police corruption or that some police officers do things they should not do. It’s always going to happen with human beings.
But less than 1%?
I do not believe the police are out of control any more than politicians and the rest of society is out of control. People are voting themselves into servitude, the cops, particularly the younger ones who grow up in this increasingly secular country, are just a reflection of society.
We’ll just have to agree to disagree, then, as I can’t see having anywhere near 1% of our cops killing a dog in a year as anywhere near success.
I’m afraid the more brutish our police forces become the more they attract brutish would-be officers, thus creating a downward spiral. Also, unfortunately, police can’t help but have their perspective influenced by seeing and dealing with the worst among us, and in high-crime areas that goes 10 times over.