I can’t agree that policemen and soldiers in the United States are “sociopaths pinned to badges”. Under the right conditions, the most peaceable people can become sociopaths, given a uniform and a commander to hide behind and excuse themselves with. That’s happened many times. But at the same time, uniformed soldiers and policemen have sometimes defied the wishes of those in power, or at least subverted them quietly.
One example that comes to mind is the Hadassah House in Hebron. After the big pogrom and the British expulsion of all Jews from Hebron, for decades it was used as a barn and manure dump. But one rabbi that I know, as a child helped stage a takeover of Hadassah House,together with his mother and siblings. They barricaded themselves inside, and the IDF laid siege for weeks to the place, as they were ordered to so as to placate the Arabs, while individual IDF soldiers smuggled in food and water and helped remove their waste and garbage, and the entire siege force pretended looked the other way.
Another I found in the book Babi Yar. The sole survivor of the initial massacres there managed to escape with the aid of a German soldier who opened the door to the house where she had taken refuge, yelled and screamed at her to leave before the SS came to take her back, and somehow broke through her stupor so she took to the woods and lived.
You don’t have to agree with it but the evidence supports that assertion. The “Go home at the end of your shift at any cost” mentality is just the beginning of that sickness.
Add in all the other abuses, criminality and coverups that
are reported on a daily basis and the ONLY possible conclusion is that LEO has been transformed from what it was into a Gestapo of sadistic brutish sociopaths who are not only NOT held accountable for the evil conduct but are
actually rewarded more often than not.