[bimbo]

Most cops aren't jack booted thugs, but when they screw up they get away with it. I know of too many cases in my own locale to think different. The only one I ever saw get any time was off duty and drunk when he wasted a 16 year old. Later, while in prison, he was caught having a conjugal(sp) visit with his wife, an on-duty cop, in the back of a prison van while the guards were shopping in a local store (probably with the $$$ they had been paid for privacy. The cop wife got a reprimand and was on desk duty for a while, but then put back on the street. The Feds can get away with anything the want, including wasting mothers with infants in their arms and burning toddlers just because their parents are a little wacky. If the cops had to obey the same laws they enforce, they wouldn't get so much criticism when they screw up.

What you describe is a Police State.

[putupon]

What you describe is a Police State.

And I didn't even mention the on-duty cop who killed an unwanted man @ 100 yards with 3 warning shots and was promoted to sargeant back in the late '70's or early '80's. I'm not blowing smoke either, I knew the one who killed the 16 year old personally and went to high school with the one I just mentioned's little brother.

[Don Myers]

"What you describe is a Police State."

Yes, you are right. Some people are comfortable in a police state.