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Given the cops heavy handedness in my view here.

I wonder if anyone knows how many cops have been wounded or killed by pot growers over the years as opposed to vice versa?

Copperhead Road notwithstanding, I have never found pot growers or anyone in the US pot trade to be particularly violent such as in the meth or coke business. I'm sure there are exceptions but it seems like cops have adopted the Powell doctrine of overwhelming force for any police action unless it involves policing one of their own.

Here in Nashville a few years back an estranged from his wife (also a cop) cop found her and another cop en flagratto at the lovers house and he went postal and shot up the neighborhood at precisely the time kids were coming home from school. The local Swatjocks let him fire off rounds in everyone's direction for hours till they talked him down. Today, they will put scores of bullets into someone who even brandishes an edged weapon at them from a distance and recently here shot and killed an X dealer (a college student) who tried to escape from an undercover buy in his car.

Some cops need to take some chilling out training. Are all cops now de facto SWAT?

And to think they won't even come to my businesses for burglaries or roust the local varmint kids repsonsible unless I shoot one of them...then they will come to arrest me.

I don't much care for this state of affairs.

(btw, I gave my good cop story last week...seriously)