Ehrmm... just a suggestion, mind, but how about adhering to their decades-long stated public policy emblazoned on so many police vehicles? You know, the mission "To Protect and To Serve"?
Or is that really asking too much, to even think of someone actually doing their job to form and to standard? You know, because that's what they are being PAID to do?
All I am saying is, they can “protect” to a minor degree. But not much. And they need to stop trampling on our liberties with the claim that doing so will protect us.
PC has made it unlikely that they can even do much after the fact when protected classes are the aggressors.
“to protect and serve” has been replace with “whatever, so long as all officers go home safe at the end of the day”.
that’s the mentality shift i’m talking about. it went from citizens first to officers first, and screw the citizens if necessary. if they make mistakes , too effing bad, at least all the cops went home alright. got the wrong house? too bad. murdered the homeowner because she thought thugs were invading her home? too damn bad. shot the dog that was legally confined to its backyard? too damn bad.
Look up Castle Rock v Gonzales. You ain't got no stinkin "property interest". "a well-established tradition of police discretion has long coexisted with apparently mandatory arrest statutes.". Or "to protect and serve if we f'n feel like it. The police---SERVPRO for the state.