That part is false. I'd guestimate 20% of cops are horrible.
They are not your friends.
That part is true for all cops. How can they be? They need to have SOME impartiality.
Cops are an extension of the prosecutorial powers of the state.
Their job is not to serve and protect, that is Orwellian.
this may sound strange coming from me, but i recently came to feel that we are living in a neo or pre police state. as if America has become a kind of prison or the gang hood of our collective police depts & the tsa, & we the people, are slowly being subjugated by them.
yet as an aside, as our liberty is used more for vice than virtue, only a dictator ship may be able to handle to the resulting chaos.
apart from that, it’s as if to themselves, they & their procedures are their own idols & in their view we don’t matter one whit, only the exercise of their power & the defense of their turf does. via their actions many dept.s & individuals seem to have no sense of fairness, justice or mercy.
yet, they may simply be a sample of our society at large, with only a minority doing what is right, like Lot in sodom.
about the article, what infuriates me most about these incidents is that the officers, police dept.s, sheriff dept.s, city govt et al etc. thru legality regard themselves non obligated to make restitution. in the big picture this is true for either pets or people. nowadays dialing 911 & dying may very well result from either police or non police action.
for any local leo dept which sanctions killing pets as bau procedure [business as usual] it should be required by law that an officer personally [not the dept] make restitution of at least $2500 per pet he/she kills.
just like politicians, the police work for us, by the people, for the people, not for their own selfish, arrogant, conceited ambition.