I lamented the change from blue uniformed “protect and serve” police officers of my childhood to the blacked-out SWAT team dominination model that we have today. However, it’s not thier fault, but because of the amount of violent criminals who are let out of jail on short sentences or probabtion. When the COPs go downtown, they are in a war zone, and they have learned to respond accordingly. Unfortunately, these agressive tactics, training, and use of force policies do not translate so well when normal citizens are encountered.
Gonna have to call BULLS**T on that one. Sorry.
Those who make excuses for thugs enable thugs.
That’s a bunch of BS.
Recently, sometime in the last 5 or 10 years the cops have come to the conclusion that it’s ‘us vs. them’. And the ‘them’ is the typical law abiding citizen.
Cops are no longer to be trusted, let alone be our friends.
They are ‘the gang of blue suited thugs’ who must, by law, be called in certain situations, but those who are able to should wait until that situation is completely resolved before the call is made. The ‘blue suited thugs’, who are really just historians, can then come an make record of what happened.
No situation exists that can’t be made worse by calling the police.