Nice post. I find the anti Catholic sentiment here at FR the most distasteful along with theories of the Neo Confederates and the anti-police crowd. Fortunately the latter two are relatively few in posters. The first seems pretty widespread.
My father and 4 of my 6 uncles were cops. I was once called to jury duty and felt that I'd be bounced for sure for that reason. I wasn't. During "voir dire" the defense lawyer asked me if I could be impartial. I told him that I could but that if the person had been arrested by the police, I was certain they were guilty because the police only arrest guilty people. I got to read a good book the rest of the afternoon.