No, my point isn’t that there aren’t bad cops, my point was that some people, not necessarily you, were making hysterical claims about ALL!!! policemen being crazy, gun-wielding thugs who were eager to shoot any citizen for breathing wrong. Admit that many people have gone overboard in their criticism of police. We’d all like to weed out bad cops as much as bad criminals. Smearing all cops as evil is just wrong and stupid.
“Smearing all cops as evil is just wrong and stupid.”
Agreed. The “man bites dog” stories always bring the headlines. OTOH, the militarization of law enforcement has gotten way out of hand. When you see your local cops dressed up as modern day storm troopers it is hard to not be uneasy.