I live in a small town and what our force has to face everyday is disturbing: o.ds, abuse of children, of wives, stealing and so on. Not to mention the b.s. calls. i.e. someone’s dog is loose etc. Local police are the only thing that stands between a civil existence and anarchy. I’m not going to through the baby out with the bathwater. However, the county and state police have become militant. I do try to see the things they have to confront because our society is heading into sh*thole status and they are out there in the middle of it. But what happened in Canada was disgusting. I remember one of the Canadians telling the line of cops that ‘he backed them and supported them when they were under fire from Trudeau’ and he asked them, ‘how can you turn on your supporters like this?
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As long as liberal politicians keep telling the police to “stand down”, they are completely useless. If they won’t even stop rioters from torching police cars, they certainly aren’t going to protect my home and family.
I think the problem is the feds have taken control of PDs through grants, programs, funding, “taskforces”, FBI, etc etc.
GOP administrations/lawmakers have also given them more powers which I feel should be reigned in.
If anyone wants to live in a really peaceful place then Maine is the state to live in. I’ve lived here 7 years now and there are just not many violent people up here, even when antifa and blm protest things stay peaceful. Of course it helps when they do protest usually more people show up with their AR-15’s, just to keep an eye on things, than there are protesters. LOL.
In all seriousness though, I have lived in many places throughout the US because I was a contractor in the Navy shipbuilding business, and Maine is by far the most peaceful place I have ever lived. Just sayin.
I live in a small 2 cop town. They are overwhelmed with criminal activity but are the nicest, supporting people I’ve known in a long time. The county and state are becoming complacent but are somewhat nice folks. I still won’t talk in front of them about certain things however I will have their backs if it get s nasty as I have seen them defend the people from the government intrusions and Child & Family Svcs.