"The Bluecoats are coming! The Bluecoats are coming!"
They obey those who control the paycheck and the pension.
Why are you revering police? That’s your problem.
"The Bluecoats are coming! The Bluecoats are coming!"
Because the cops you used to revere are not the cops of 20 years ago.
Roll around and look at the uniforms many are wearing. They’ve gone from vests under their shirts to vest carriers(which are awesome) to wearing Level IV plate carriers with rifle mags, as if they’re about to go do some Direct Action mission with Delta.
There has been a continuing trend toward an us vs them attitude. Starts with leadership that doesn’t need to be there.
Because Deep State has a mad-on for local control of LE.
Body cams have made it a helluva lot harder for cops who want to refuse an unethical order to keep their job.
The vaxx mandates have gotten rid of a lot of the personnel who would have refused to do this dirty work.
And Deep State has ensured that working conditions are so bad for local police that most of the people willing to apply are NOT the ones you would want on your force.
Because those that are attracted to having power are often the last one’s who should be trusted with it.
They don’t want to lose their job and pension.
Like the Germans in ww2 - they will say they are just doing their job. I am afraid the police much like the FBI are not the ones we grew up with.
The answer to the question us because we have an idealized version of police from 50 , 60 years ago in our heads, rather than the true, real picture that 98% will follow orders rather than follow the Constitution. Take cops at traffic stops. Most will do stops that have zero to do with public safety but are just pure revenue raising scams. And most will lie to entrap honest law abiding citizens.
Please fix the title.
Should be:
Why do we revere the police who are doing the tyrants’ bidding?
Because they are vermin who need to be exterminated.
Like everything else, the memories we have of the police is gone, replaced by what you see today. There are exceptions, but not enough to make a difference.
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland --- Christopher R. Browning
A summary from the Amazon page: "Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever."
Ordinary men. Ordinary people. Ordinary governments.
We’ve discussed for 20 plus years which side the cops would take when the SHTF. Interesting to see it okay out in reality. Turns out the urban cops are street thugs for the leftists (also hated by leftist rift raft) and the rural police seem to be on our side. All alphabet agencies are anti-American. Including the agent reading this thread. 😜
If you fight alongside a tyrant you are the tyrant. Uniform be damned.
“The obvious answer is that many of those who find jobs in law enforcement seek power over others and the permission to abuse that power when the opportunity arises.” Sad, but true.
I do not “revere” cops. They are people and capable of wrong doing like anyone else.
The problem is that lawmakers have made everyone a criminal with petty totalitarian edicts like “mandates”. Even a restaurant owner has become a criminal if he fails to check a person’s health status. Well, here come the cops to shut you down and fine you.
The real criminals get set free.
and tyrants have no problem bringing in foreign troops to do their bidding
Why do we revere the police that will do the tyrant’s bidding?
Government and police is part of that intend to be feared. Police is pretty common “them” vs. “cilvilians” attitude, respect my authorituh!
Can be good guys one day, and mortal combat against you the next.