I wonder too how many libertarian cophaters have found people's lost children? How many libertarian cophaters caught rapists, robbers, burglars, and put them away? How many libertarian cophaters got people's stolen property back or put away somebody who killed someone's friend, or a family member?
I think the evidence is pretty clear as to just who are the heros and just who are the zeros.
I see that you are a new poster/register to FreeRepublic. I'm being nice and ask for equal respect in return. BTW, on the outside chance that you are new to the Internet thus unaware of the demeanors that can be all over the map on discussion boards, my post 257 to you was a tongue-in-cheek wake-up call. Moving on...
Considering that those who claim themselves to be Libertarian, of which I am not one, make up about 1.5 percent of the population (that's based on a one-percent voter turn out and adding a half percent for non-voting Libertarians), that statistic means that they are far and few between. You seem to be implying that all Libertarians are cop-haters, or perhaps you mean only a small faction are cop-haters, thus in the later case they'd be a miniscule segment of the population. Yet with such small numbers you imply, ironically, that their numbers could be so great that they would be readily seen or accounted for if they were out saving children, catching rapists, robbers, burglars; retrieving stolen property and putting away murders.
Frankly, any person that is a cop-hater, be they a go-along-to-get-along republican or go-along-to-get-along democrat or be they disassociated from politics, regardless of their race, gender, age or religion, if they hated cops it is absurd to think that they would be doing half the noble things you mentioned. ...For that would require them to be a cop.
Probably ninety-five percent of the population realize they don't have the wherewithal to be a cop. Though many in that very large majority appreciate the police and many people admire them for the honorable work they do. And you know what, it hurts them and for many it tears at their heart when they see one of their heroes violently breaking the law. It's seeing their "hero" act violently that pains them. It's understandable that when they do see what looks to them and the majority of people like a violent police officer abusing a person, they tend to speak out in dismay or revulsion. And most are quick to add that they do in fact respect and admire cops in general, just not that particular cop. Nobody wants their hero images tarnished. Yet it does happen occasionally.
In sum, probability of statistics indicate that there are magnitudes more democrats that hate cops and magnitudes more republicans that hate cops and multiple-magnitudes more people disassociated from politics that hate cops, that there are Libertarians that hate cops. I other words, in each of those segments there is twenty to forty times more people that hate cops, and in total about ninety-eight times more non-Libertarians that hate cops than there are Libertarians that hate cops.
Regards,