Umm isn’t FR a place where it is pro-police, forgive me if I am wrong?
Some people here hate the police, call them jack-booted thugs. Some people worship them. Some people think there are just a few bad ones who unfairly tarnish the good ones. Some people blame the good ones for covering up the bad ones.
I’d say we are pretty pro police save the occasional anti cop Libertarian who might start something her and there.
I am quite pro police.
But a roadside cavity search? You should have a really good reason to do that. I don’t think they should generally be able to do that at all.
Only a Gestapo boot licker would ALWAYS be pro-police.
Or do you think that police can literally do no wrong?
WE are FOR police who do their job correctly. We are AGAINST police who commit criminal acts themselves.
It IS pro-police to want to root out bad cops.
Free Republic is for the rule of law.
Most of us are for the police when they abide by the constitution, and opposed to them when they make themselves above the law. At one time this was a common position in America.
You can be next then for a traffic stop, strip search, groping face down on the filthy pavement with your hands cuffed behind your back.
There is such a thing as civility and rights of a citizen.
Have a nice life.
Personally I’m pro-justice. If it’s a more serious crime to attack a police officer, it should also be a more serious crime for an LEO to abuse a citizen under the color of authority. But far too often the opposite is true.
Lurk more.