Perhaps, but it's not a blind, naive, all-encompassing trust. It's a trust based upon an intimate knowledge of how they work and think in the USA, which comes from being brought up surrounded by police and working with them on a professional level every day. You are entirely welcome to a different opinion.
“Perhaps, but it’s not a blind, naive, all-encompassing trust. It’s a trust based upon an intimate knowledge of how they work and think in the USA, which comes from being brought up surrounded by police and working with them on a professional level every day. You are entirely welcome to a different opinion.”
My experience is with having a roommate who was selling pot (I had no idea) and my apt raided.
HE got off the hook - his dad is a DEA agent and pulled some strings. *I* was charged, manhandled by the police, and prosecuted. Luckily not for everything he had - he had 3/4 of a pound of weed but the police only reported 1/4 pound... they stole the rest. It was a legal nightmare for years, for me.
Or the police officer who gave me a ‘reckless driving’ and speeding ticket when I was doing neither - I defended myself in court, thanks to my high school debate skills caught him in his lie, and the judge dismissed the case.
Or the officer who came after my fiancees car was hit by an illegal alien. I was a passenger. He took the Fiancee’s information, and said she could go, that he would take the report from the alien and she’d get something in the mail. I told her to circle around and watch - he let the illegal go, never filed a police report, didn’t return a single phone message, and neither did his supervisor.
Or all the times I read about them kicking down the wrong door and shooting the inhabitants.
I don’t trust cops.