I always remember the advice of the police chief of Kenosha during that fiasco a couple of years ago: If you don’t want the police shooting someone who is invading your home or abducting your child, then don’t call the police when you have a problem with someone invading your home or abducting your child.
With all due respect, I take gentle issue with that chief’s remarks. Policing has changed, and not in a good way. Yes, policing challenges are greater. But I expect professionals to respond to those challenges in a professional way.
Too often that’s simply not the case. Back in the 1970s (when I was kind of a hippy) my interactions with cops were fine. No problems. Now I’m an old graybeard. And with few exceptions, I’m treated rudely.
Body cams have made such incidents very well-known. Some poor slob is walking down a sidewalk, doing nothing wrong (see the link). He gets harassed and arrested. Maybe that only happens one time out of a hundred. No matter. Would you trust a medicine that makes you deathly ill one time out of a hundred?