I truly understand that LEO’s have to protect themselves and they deal with less than honest people. That being said, I find it now common for law abiding citizens to fear the police. No, I’m not talking about running a red light and knowing you are going to get a ticket. I am talking about true fear for their safety, family safety and their rights as citizens. None of this is good. When I was growing up, your parents wrote a check to the Police Benevolence Society or similar fund. You were taught as a child that the police do a dangerous job to protect YOU. You referred to them as Sir/Mam or Officer due to respect not fear. Essentially, if you were law abiding, then you were on their “side” and they “yours”. Not anymore. I don’t know if this is a generation issue or what? However, LENF image and law abiding citizens are not on the same page anymore. IMHO
The police are not your friend,they are agents of the State.Many situations are worsened by the arrival of the police.My encounters of the last year with the police are examples:after being struck head-on and painfully exiting my car,the arriving officer badgered me as having caused the wreck,until multiple witnesses told her the other driver clearly ran the red light. The second incident was being pulled over for a burned out(unknown to me) license plate lamp.When the officer knocked on my passenger side window and demanded my license my question was what is this about?He said you will be told after I have your driver license !I think my crime was driving an older vehicle carefully at the speed limit after midnight.If you drive over the posted limit you can be stopped for excess speed and if you do obey the posted limit it is viewed as if you have something to hide because most drivers do exceed the posted limit by 5 to 10 mph.The flaming license plates are reflective anyway so easily read when the lights of any car hit it. Oddly I discovered the local Walmart was out of license plate lamps the next day. And I know of a domestic situation where one department did try to handle things calmly but the county sherrif department swept in with multiple cars and a half-dozen officers surrounded an empty, locked pickup truck ;just an idiot circus totally un-needed. SWAT ,no knock raids,and the black uniform militarization of the former peace officers are no good. I abhor this Indiana Supreme Court ruling.