[Alberta's Child]

If the LEO community does not police its own ranks and stamp out this nonsense, it might as well take all the goodwill it has earned over the years, douse it in cheap gasoline, and set it on fire.

Don’t be such a naive dope, Kurt. Even the mere existence of a “LEO community” is totally incompatible with freedom and liberty. The founders of this country would have been repulsed by the thought of living in a country with hundreds of thousands of “law enforcement officers.”

[SauronOfMordor]

Read the Federalist Papers, where the people who helped author the Constitution talk about the dangers that “standing armies” pose to liberty.

They were specifically thinking of heavily armed “law enforcement”.

[voicereason]

...hundreds of thousands of “law enforcement officers.”

There was a time, not so along go, that they were considered to be 'Peace Officers'. Now when a cop shows up, it's practically a signal that things are bound to get worse.

Probably one of the worst things to happen is the militarization of police. All these cops now with their plate carriers and tactical pant (or shoot-me-first pants as I like to call them). Give people toys, and they will want to play with them.