Oh great - another one of your cop hating posts to muddy up FreeRepublic.
There is nothing conservative about police misconduct and abuse of power.
Are you the old KGB’s #1 supporter?
If the cops have nothing to hide then they shouldn’t mind public scrutiny.
Great, another overly-sensitive cops-can-do-no-wrong lover acting like a liberal by accusing someone of “hate” just because someone does not share your same viewpoint.
Let us remember that the skepticism of the benefits of government, which was the hallmark of the American founding we seek to conserve, extends to all of its functionaries, not just elected officials, Supreme Court Justices, bureacrats and teachers in government schools, but to the police, and, yes, the military.
Supporting police, the military, and, yes, the rest of them when they perform rightly, or even to the best of their ability, their duties under the Constitution and the laws of the United States and the several states is both patriotic and conservative. Opposing them when the abuse or overreach their proper functions, and seeing to it that the laws do not allow or worse enshrine such abuse and overreach, is likewise patriotic and conservative.
This sounds like an example of the latter, so no ‘cop hating’ is necessary here, just American conservatism.
Some cops, like this little fascist, deserve nothing but hatred and contempt from free men.
If the cops deserve it, what better place than Free Republic?
It's in the name, donchaknow.
Not all police officers anymore want a “free republic.” How many law enforcement officers these days can define a “republic” ?
I was one day threatened repeatedly with arrest by officers who could not arrest me — they knew it — and I knew it — but they started in thinking I didn’t know it, so that they could intimidate me into doing something I had no intention of doing.
The officer told me that I could not “post a sign on the U.S. highway without a permit from the state DOT.” When he stated that, a friend went to a phone and called the DOT, and the DOT stated that they have no such rule, ‘cause we weren’t planting a sign, we were CARRYING the sign.
Later that day I told the Sheriff about it, and he told me that he would have a talk with the town police chief about it (that town was within that Sheriff’s county).
I don’t know how they’re training some of these officers these days, but they should not use intimidation tactics, nor threaten people with arrest when they have no law; nor should they falsely state that there are laws that do not exist.
I am a supporter of law enforcement, and I teach my children to be respectful always and to be supportive of officers, and to obey their reasonable requests even when inconvenient.
But MAN ALIVE(!) they ARE putting some wackos on the streets in some places behind a badge.