“It should be the good guys vs. the bad guys. But it’s now a three-way fight.
It’s the good guys vs. the bad guys vs. the cops.
I don’t remember any of this from my younger days. But today - based on my observations and experience - 15% of cops are garbage, complete trash.”
I so agree. I don’t understand how these bad cops are even hired. Are they that hard up? Like the school systems?
The first are the helpers, people who genuinely want to help those who are in trouble, the second is the defenders who want to defend people and the last are the controllers who want everything everywhere neat and tidy.
Part of the problem is that all of them think of themselves as "good people" so what they do is, by definition, right.
The helpers do not see that they can become enablers, the defenders do not see that they can become bullies and the controllers do not see that their desire for order is not the highest law. All of them need to remember that just because they think something does not mean that what they are thinking is right.
And they are now part of a bureaucracy that is always right. Because any bureaucracy thinks that it is always right. So when an officer brings in someone claiming that this is a wanted criminal, he is right. And it follows that the person who is claiming that he is not that wanted criminal is either lying or crazy. No need to check finger prints or anything like that. The bureaucrat is always right. And so the man ends up in the nuthouse getting more and more powerful drugs pumped into him every day because no one thought that maybe just maybe they should check their work.
The biggest problem is the fact that no one wants to put any checks and balances on them. How dare you second guess them? I dare because humans ain't perfect.
It is easier to deal with those few police officers who are down right crooked because you know where you are with them.