My point was that generally speaking, it is universal to all nations that cops feelings don’t amount to much, they not only obey orders, they mostly obey whoever is in charge, I just don’t think that the Soviets or the Germans would have had to do much to change the police in America, the police would mostly just read the new orders and carry on.
There has to be some small/tiny percentage of police who would refuse, resign, or something, but I don’t recall hearing that it is ever a problem for occupation forces and conquerors, or corrupt governments to keep the police dealing with the citizens in whatever manner is required by the bosses.
We’ve been militarizing the police for decades which doesn’t help. I personally opposed shutting down our local police department because I wanted to keep them close as part of the local community.
Now we pay the county to roll through town once a week which is OK until there’s trouble and they shoot a local because they don’t know the local dynamics.
Keep in mind, I have a Hutaree militia member living less than a mile from me and we never had any problems when our cops were local.
I completely agree with you. The police have always had a tendency to support the guy in charge, whoever he may be.
The exception proves that rule: This guy is somewhat famous. I’m sure he wasn’t totally unique, but he’s the only German police official I know of who stood up to that Nazis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf-Heinrich_Graf_von_Helldorf