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I read a lot of sources for news; not just Free Republic. That is what worries me. The abuse and corruption incidents have become wide spread in reporting and public awarness.

It is going to be addressed by the public and it is important to me that police professionals with integrity do that instead of angry victims, “community organizers” and their rioters.

I know you are angry at the guy who posts these reports on FR but I think he is doing conservative leaders a favor in the form of giving a heads up on what is happening around the country with this issue. We either lead in solving this problem in the public perception or deal with a reaction to liberalism’s aftermath. To me police are in more danger when professionals with common sense and integrity do nothing and deny there is a problem or name the people who are complaining the problem.

I will share a personal experience with you. I am about as goody two shoes conservative as soles come and we had a frightening police raid at our house based on a noise complaint made by a neighbor at 9:45pm. It was a party we threw for four families - an annual summer event - a pool party and yard games on five acres. We only got the rading cops to back off because one of the dads is a lawyer and he put his game on.

Our town’s council apparently decided we had a problem with teens drinking and this is the way the police reacted - to raid every party they found in the town as if they were breaking up a teen drinking party and locking down the area to catch teens who might flee or escape the raid.

Anyway, to make a long story short, after too many confrontational raids, our towns people decided the police department had become a danger to the residents and they cut the police department by 2/3, destroyed their tasers and comtemplated disarming them altogether but in the end allowed the remaining officers to have guns unless they screwed up again. We did not really have crime in our town anyway and this build up of police came with the fear of terrorism (like Russian school terrorist nightmares) and it’s training.

Leading up to that, the police department could have altered their strategy and saved themselves a lot of trouble had they listened to complaints like ours. The problem in our community was not ALL celebrations in town. The problem was unsupervised teen drinking parties; most of which we learned were taking place in the conservation land at the edge of town. No one was terrorists.

All the cops had to do was when they saw 8 parents and a bunch of kids playing is inform me they got a noise complaint, be sweet and respectful to me as I was to them, and then leave my property with the cup of cider and burger I offered to them. They had absolutely no respect for me; only the lawyer dad who stepped up and told them they were about to get sued to kingdom come if they did not cut their loses and get off the property immediately. They respected him and only him.

If he had not been there, I don’t know what would have happened to us. They were barking at me like I was a criminal hiding drunk kiddos in my yard and my husband and other moms and dads were capping a flood of anger and instinct to protect me and the kids and I could sense that and I felt an urgency to do whatever I could to keep control of the situtation...but I had no control even though I have a lot of skills in de-esclating situations like this. Nothing worked to shift the aggression of these extremly ignorant young cops except the threats of a lawyer in town. Thank God he was there.

I am certain we could have all been criminals before they left our property had things gone differently. When I hear people charged with obstruction of justice or resisting arrest now, I wonder if nutty cops on power trips made it happen as they almost did at my house. That never occured to me before. But you need to know that I am not the only one and if it could happen to our family, it could happen to people in your family. I wish you had been there!