You know, I used to be very pro-police. But then I had an incident where a cop said he had the right to block my drive-way because his car was on a public rd. Then my feeling of the police went from positive to very negative. I only wished I could have had a cam-corder/video camera on when he told me that.
In that case my feelings toward a particular officer would have headed south, but police officers in general? No.
No different then hating all blacks because some of them break the laws, or hating latino's because some of them illegally enter this country and cause problems.
So you believe it's logical to group all cops into the some basket of evil because you had a problem with one of them?
Similar experiences here. One time when I was about 17, I was taking some pictures of a river that ran behind the local supermarket/strip mall. A cop pulled up and asked me what I was doing. I said "Just taking some pictures". He didn't like that I guess. I was frisked and put in the cruiser. My car was carefully looked over from the outside. He spent the next half an hour calling in my license plate number, inspecting my camera and threatening to charge me with criminal mishchief and vandalism. He said he could get the store owners to back him up. Real nice guy.
I worked with an ex-cop once who told me about how he and his partner would hog tie suspects, lift them up and then drop them on their faces for laughs. Lots of stories like that. He was also racist and would go on and on about the things he didn't like about blacks.
Too many speed traps around here to list. There's even a small town nearby (pop 25) that generates over half of its annual operating income from traffic tickets. Locals are not cited.
The police lobbying groups (except the Sherrifs sometimes) stridently oppose concealed carry laws here. Barney gets to carry his gun wherever but not John Q. Public. I once had a road rager write down my license plate #. I knew he could pay $10 and get my name and address off the web. Too bad I couldn't legally carry a concealed weapon for a few weeks until I was sure nothing would come of it.
I have cops in my family (FBI, highway patrol, and a city cop). All good men. Unfortunately, it only takes a few bad experiences with LEOs to become very wary of them. There are a lot of control freak cops out there who just love to show people that they are the boss. Anyway, my opinion of LEOs is such that I'm not very sympathetic to their situation in the article. Now they've got incentive to treat people decently.