[Eastern Shore Virginian]

Ad-hominem and strawman in one shot. That is exceptional.

Correctional officers are not police officers. They are less trained and focused on correctional facilities only. They do not go outside the facility and cannot fulfill the role of police officers.

[wildcard_redneck]

Many LEOs, as they grandiosely call themselves, have correctional guard backgrounds.. Thanks to the connections that I inherited from my ex-wife I know federal corrections officers personally and they both wanted to be police officers very badly. One ended up as an air marshal that's to the odious Patriot Act and the other never made it to the police because of physical disability. if this is happening in the prisons it's happening in the streets with the beat cops. American police are turning into rent-a-thugs who only “police” the opposition.

I also know many police officers, my ex-wife wife's father, sister and her sister's husband have been police officers in Arizona for roughly 25 years each. only one of them was a control freak and I'll let you guess which one it was.

And don't get me started on the topic of cops and "professional courtesy" (legal harassment is for the little people).