Like Jim Robinson said last night Paul is no conservative and nearly every cop is.
You can tell what a man is by the company he keeps.
Those who hate cops hate them because they want their drugs etc legal and hate it if they are stopped.
We had a robbery and an attack on the cop, the thug is dead and the scumbags are looting while liberals make excuses for them.
Plain and simple
I think the notion that nearly every cop is conservative is about 20 years past its sell by date……certainly that’s not true at all nationwide (maybe it is in Texas).
If you think that there exists a segment of government employees that receive great pay, retire early, receive generous lifetime pensions, abuse disability regularly, pay very little for lifetime healthcare, and is also overwhelmingly conservative, then you are very, very, naive.
Now the National Guard is in Ferguson. The way they are armed is not what you want in a civilized country. I think the article points out that more and more regular police forces have elements that look exactly like the National Guard and suggests that that is not a good thing.
Horsehockey. I myself dislike the militarized police IMMENSELY because I don't like being "confronted" by "swarms of overpaid officers" everywhere I turn, and I don't like paying the exorbitant taxes demanded at gunpoint to equip the Pretend Sojers with military gear, to fuel their fantasies of being Special Forces "operators".
Maybe they just want their dogs to stay alive?
Officer Friendly went by the boards long ago. I see no reason to blindly trust the police any more that I would trust anyone else I didn't know. If I'm stopped by the police I have no reason to believe that they have my best interests in mind.
Good point in that I don’t think I’ve ever met a Liberal cop.
Most are solid Conservatives, with a few whacked-out dangerous nutjobs and blathering incompetents sprinkled in.