And then they would have investigated, found their performance wanting, covered up the report and claimed they needed more money for nicer guns and “more training,” which of course would not have led to any improvement in their performance.
I’m now at a point where I think cops should be fired. Just have a county sheriff and a sheriff’s posse for searches and pursuits. The “professional” police forces are bankrupting municipalities and states, and they’re nothing more or less than the standing army the Founders warned us of.
"...and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."
King George coulda had a V-8:
"Hey! I'll just tax the crap out of the colonists, and pay a bunch of police officers $30 an hour with the tax money, so the officers can afford to buy their own cozy upscale houses, instead of quartering them in the colonists' houses!
We'll use the new invasive monitoring technology, so that the officers don't even have to be in the houses of the rebels!
Sweet!"
I maintain that the current Police State is a MASSIVE violation of the Third Amendment.