[cloudmountain]

There’s nothing wrong with slamming our cops for doing bad things without having been in a third world country. The behavior of cops in other countries and exposure to same is 100% besides the point. You don’t have to have ever stepped foot in another country to see that TPD decided there was going to be a riot Saturday night and when the citizens didn’t provide them with one they made one happen, and you don’t have to have stepped foot in another country to know that is a very bad thing.
Frankly if US cops want people to be less anti-cop they should be less assholes. With no knock raid on the wrong address, creating a riot when they couldn’t get one, shooting dogs for no good reason and the host of other things they do all by themselves to bring shame upon the badge they’ve brought this on themselves.

WHAT a shame that your town/city/county has so many horrible cops. It's the fault of the town/city/county that hired them.

What a shame that you neither trust nor respect them. Again, the fault of bad cops lies with those who hired them.
Obviously, your city, town or county doesn't have the grievance procedure to let their bosses know what bad cops they have.

Maybe you should start the ball rolling with a public call for a grievance procedure. I bet you won't though and will slam me for even mentioning it.

Lazy, uninterested, unmotivated or complain-only citizens are going to allow bad cops to get hired and continue to "shame the badge."

I know. I know. "Not my job."

Since I ditched all the caps, are you now going to give me static for the underlines and bolds? I hope not. They are for emphasis. :o)

God bless America.

[discostu]

You should never trust the cops, they’re not on your side. Their job is throwing people in jail, and you’re people.

Like most cities in America the “grievance procedure” results in an internal investigation where they decide the cops did no wrong. There’s always the problem of who watches the watchmen.

I do what I can. When good candidates come up that talk about reigning in our faulty police system I give them money and I vote for them... and then they lose. I myself manage to rarely have direct contact with the cops, when I do and it’s bad I fill out the forms for complain, and nothing comes of it. Luckily the police are sewing the seeds to their own destruction, years ago we voted down a tax hike for them and since then we’ve been “punished” with a dramatic reduction of police “services”. The upshot of this has been teaching the people of Tucson how little we really need them, so we’re using them less, reducing their services further. A situation like Saturday (which they are “investigating”) will further reduce our reliance on them since many have now seen them make a problem just to justify their presence live and in person.

I didn’t give you static for the caps. Though it is nice you’ve transitioned to a less shouty form of emphasis.