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.
“Roll around and look at the uniforms many are wearing.”
Many years ago one of the NRA magazines had on its cover a picture of a SWAT decked out police officer. The point of the picture was these are the good guys. I wrote to them and said that that is the exact person I would think would one day be confiscating guns.
They keep calling us “civilians”. What does that make them? Military? Paramilitary?
It starts with the voters. People get the government they deserve and by extension the police they deserve. Most citizens think they can ignore government and never consider the consequences. Half of our citizens love tyranny as long as it is being perpetrated against those that love freedom.
Those of us that love freedom have to become government officers at every level if we want to save this Republic.
There’s a definite military appearance to them.
Not accidental.
“...but the rest seem to enjoy the opportunity to roust good, law-abiding, non-violent protesters...”
Precisely! Those are the kind of people they want and have been hiring.
Because the cops you used to revere are not the cops of 20 years ago.
***The cops of 20 years ago were not the cops of 20 years ago. You had some kind of image in your mind of what they were 20 years ago, and 20 years ago that image was false. Now that facade is being pulled off, those of us who knew what was behind it were right.
Where are the jackbootlickers now? They used to be so prevalent on FR.