Oh, and I forgot to mention. The fact that these cops thought they had found a home here at FreeRepublic says a whole lot about the previously powerful roll that the Law and Order Conservatives played in Republican politics.
The cops themselves are causing the breakdown in law and order. They are losing the respect of the people with their illegal and immoral behavior.
I just finished reading an article about Georgia (the former Soviet country). They were having trouble with massive corruption among their traffic cops that were leftovers from the Soviet era, and they ended up firing them ALL. All 30,000 cops were shaking down the people for bribes. Crimes immediately fell to almost zero, not simply because there wasn’t anybody to report them to, but because people discovered the cops were the ones responsible for the vast majority of the crimes.
Yep, that goes back to the '60's , I'm pretty sure, when it was akll about conservative vs. counter-culture. Prior to that, I don't believe police were particularly seen as conservative good guys. A lot of modern conservative ideology is based around reaction to the baby boomer generation. We sometimes think it has been timless, but it's all rather recent.
Remember Charlton Heston vs. Ice T? Seems like a differen time already.