I think we have about twice the number of laws we need, and twice the number of cops needed to enforce them.
But I think most cops try to do a good job.
Too bad they won’t rat out the bad ones.
On one hand, I sympathize with the amount of work they put into a case only to have a liberal judge dismiss it with a slap on the wrist.
On the other hand, I’ve witnessed the evolution from ‘Officer Friendly’ to ‘you’re all the enemy’, which isn’t healthy for either side. I do know the way things are now, in my area, the young deputies are awful quick to pull their weapons, which isn’t intelligent in a very rural community.
Police sign up to enforce the laws on the books.
There are many unfair and unjust laws.
Police still sign on to enforce these laws whether they are good or bad.
Therefore, there cannot be any good cops because they are voluntarily enforcing laws they know are wrong.
If there are so many good cops, why do they close ranks to protect their own nearly every time one of their number does something unlawful?
All the police need to do is start following the same rules every other human does, and eliminating the lawbreakers within their ranks. That would go a LONG way in re-establishing the public’s trust.
Cop-bashing? No, I am telling the hard unfortunate truth. Try to refute anything I said above.