When police suspect every one is a danger, no one gives them respect and appreciation.
Its dangerous work but not every incident needs to be resolved with handcuffs and a billy club. Police officers who think people must be carted off to jail are a greater threat to society than the society they’re sworn to protect.
Police are supposed to protect life and freedom and not to deprive people of it unless they’re committed a crime that endangers others. But too many in police work have forgotten they’re servants rather than taskmasters with shields and clubs.
They are revenue collectors now. It’s so obvious.
There’s way more money in catching granny with a radar gun going 6mph over the speed limit. Automatic cha-ching.
“Police are supposed to protect life and freedom and not to deprive people of it unless they’re committed a crime that endangers others.”
I have to respectfully disagree. My city is an corporation and that makes the police officers corporate security. Their primary mission is protecting corporate property and employees. They maintain the myth that they’re here to protect you to make you docile and cooperative. :)