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America is slowly moving in the direction of a Third World type nation, where the citizens distrust the police and the police regard themselves as being above the law.

My woman is 30, white, professional. Never even got a ticket... she actively fears and dislikes the police. and we even have friends that are police.

Why is this? When I was growing up in Philly, we did not see the police that often but when we did we would wave and if they were stopped, we would talk with them.

It seems that it began to change in the late 80's/early 90's... police became sneaky. No longer were police visible in off colored patrol cars. Look at what we have now, sneaky unmarked cars and patrol cars that do not look like patrol cars.

1984 was off by a decade

I think it was about 1984 when I came across a USPS letter carrier who'd been rear-ended by a careless driver. He had crawled into someone's lawn.

No one had cellphones in those days and no one was home, so I left someone else to watch after the man while I went in search of a payphone or a copcar.

I found TWO of them swapping clues in a nearby shopping center. I approached with my hands up and asked for assistance down the street with the letter carrier.

You'd thought I'd just interrupted the most important meeting in the world. It was all "F word" this and "Wadda' you want", and "We weren't called".

Went and found another cop, called in and complained about the two I'd met at the parking lot earlier.

Haven't trusted any of them since ~ best to approach with caution as if they were wild animals near rut, and be prepared to complain later when it's safer.

So far they haven't let me down.