[Berlin_Freeper]

Who are my “brethren”?

Your us-versus-them mentality shows you could very well be a Cop Hater.

We are all supposed to be Americans. Including the police.

[microgood]

Your us-versus-them mentality shows you could very well be a Cop Hater.

Recent trends indicate that the police are the ones with the us-versus-them mentality. Calling us civilians and their SWAT team members "operators" indicates that they are the ones that have turned against us.

Police are Americans like you say but the recent behaviour exhibited by them like unnecessary use of SWAT and the surge in no-knock warrants (which are completely unconstitutional and very un-American), an alarming number of which are mistakes, is alarming to say the least.

I now worry what my government will do to me far more than a what a terrorist might do. This was not true thirty years ago.

Maybe it is a police management issue, and not the street cops. In all the encounters I have ever had with police, they have acted professionally.