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The more propaganda you see on TV for a profession or aspect of government, the worse it is in real life.

The current glut of cop shows indicates cops behave as if you took your average public sector employee, pumped him up on steroids and donuts, armed him, and gave him a fast car. And, oh yeah, the union would have to be even more powerful than the teachers' union.

This isn't an easy problem to reform, but a good first step would be to have a lot fewer laws and a lot fewer cops. Another good first step is to vote for referenda (somehow its never in front of the legislature) that strip cop shops and localities of ticket and siezure revenue.

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"This isn't an easy problem to reform, but a good first step would be to have a lot fewer laws and a lot fewer cops. Another good first step is to vote for referenda (somehow its never in front of the legislature) that strip cop shops and localities of ticket and siezure revenue."

Yep, that would be the common sense thing to do, but were dealing with a politically currupt bureacracy that is growing leaps and bounds with every 10,000 laws that the legislatures churn out every month...

Add on to that, the new Father-Homeland propaganda that is being added to the already out-of-control LEOS (did you see the Kalifornia State of the Police-State text where Davis talks about the Kali Father-Homeland security dept. he's creating?), and we have a recipe for the most almighty police-state since the Gestapo started asking for papers to allow citizens to travel anywhere...

Jack-Booted-Thugs are feeling totally empowered now and think that blowing the head off a dog distracting from the subjugation of their prey, is a logical choice given their position in Amerika...

This guy will ride a desk for a few months, getting high-fives from all of the guys in the force on their way out to remind the local citizens who is the boss, and then just like the degenerates who executed Amadu Diallo because he was black & didn't "assume the position" in 10 seconds or less, will be found not-guilty and be restored to all of his glorious, jack-booted, super-human powers...