Another line from an obituary of the Rule of Law.
There are nice suburban communities around here where I fear the cops more than the “bad guys.” Over-policed, they are always on the lookout for more fresh meat to stuff into the sausage grinder bureaucracy called the “criminal justice system.” If I had a flat tire, I’d get 3 cop cars around me, and the cops wouldn’t lift a finger to fix the flat, they’d want to search my car.
Says you are from Indiana. If you are in Northern Indiana, then wouldn't that be a GOOD thing?
I’m afraid you’re absolutely right. Police officers serve the city not the citizens. The city belongs to politicians at every level. We have seen story after story of police abuse in our city. It gets worse every year.
Something very similar to that happened her a couple of years ago. A woman and a couple of adolescent kids walked into the bar I was in, and asked where they could get a tire fixed. They were from out of town, passing through from one nearby town to another one, and had a blowout about a mile out of town. They walked into town, and found the only open business that late, a bar. The bar owner called the cops and told them a motorist needed help. The dispatcher made a snotty reply to the effect that they didn’t help motorists. A couple of samaritans at the bar(those dirty barflies) volunteered to provide a spare tire and put it on the people’s car. When they got to the woman’s vehicle, there were 2 cop cars there, and several cops seraching the car with a dope dog. They interrogated the woman, the kids, the samaritans, treated everybody as a potential criminal, and refused to help in any way. Real good advertising, cops.
There are nice suburban communities around here where I fear the cops more than the “bad guys.” Over-policed, they are always on the lookout for more fresh meat to stuff into the sausage grinder bureaucracy called the “criminal justice system.” If I had a flat tire, I’d get 3 cop cars around me, and the cops wouldn’t lift a finger to fix the flat, they’d want to search my car.
Yeah, we have a small suburb here too that is on the way from my house to school. And it is nothing but a speed trap full of jack booted thugs. Been pulled over several times because I have tinted windows and they want to meter me. yeah they have a light meter to check that too. I pass, I am legal, barely... but I just HATE driving through there at night because of it.
They are nothing but armed tax collectors... the Sherrif of Nottingham was more honest about HIS taxes.
Welcome to homeowners' association America.