The demonization of the police is a characteristic of the Left since the early Sixties. They regard the police as simply another wall of American society that needs to be torn down and built in the image of the Left.
Trust. Confidence. Fairness. Respect of Law. Integrity. Those had been all perceived bricks in that wall called Police. But every single one of those attributes runs counter to those of the Left, and as such, makes them targets.
Prior to that, Americans mostly respected police because we felt that they largely were Americans first, and police second. I understand the feeling was far from universal, but I think we trusted our police more than most countries trust theirs.
It was a very American relationship, the police and the general population. Very Rockwellian.
In the Sixties, the Left correctly perceived that the police and government generally served the center and the right and were against them.
So they demonized the police. (not that I am not saying the police weren’t guilty of many of those criticisms, because they most certainly were)
The point I make is that the Left set out to tear down the police because they could never be on in the same corner as “The Pigs”.
Interesting use of that epithet by the Radicals and The Children of The Sixties. Not “The Fuzz”, The Coppers”, or whatever. It was ad hominem. The media is the most vocal critic of the police even though they cloak it in “The News”, and who makes up the news? Leftists.
So, like Joseph McCarthy (whom they tarred in the eyes of the public over a half a century with a slow, drip-drip-drip Chinese Water Torture of invective) they have done the same with the Police.
You’re a sorry excuse for a FReeper!
LAPD has demonized themselves for decades.
Trust is earned, confidence in criminal ‘lawmen’ is aptly rewarded, fairness? make me laugh!
Accuse all that you disagree with of being ‘leftist,’ it shows what you’re made of.
There are problems with police and those are largely the result of the environment they live and work in or the laws they’re paid to enforce. And yes there are bad cops but I refuse to judge them all as a whole. In my youth I had too many cops treat me with far more respect than I deserved and I won’t forget that.
Just last winter in a neighboring town two cops were attacked with a chainsaw by some clown hopped up on meth. He had already threatened to kill his neighbors and the cops would have been easily justified in shooting him. Instead they kept him on the opposite side of the car from him and talked him down and arrested him peacefully.
About 10 years ago back when my little town still had police a new officer came down here with a question about something and the dumb ass maced my Jack Russel. It pissed me off and I told him about it and called the chief. I got an apology from both of them but I also went down to the office and let them make up with the dog too.
Today my little town doesn’t even have police and a county sheriff’s car rolls through every once in a while. The moral of that story is if you don’t want cops around don’t live in a high crime area.
That is part of the picture, but while they want liberty for their immorality, and thus oppose moral authority and police enforcement of morality, they demand law enforcement targeting those who oppose them. Think of hate crime legislation and selective enforcement of it.
Meanwhile, the loss of integrity in law enforcement also serves to justifies the basic animus against authority an lack of objectivity in dealing with such that many conservatives seem to express.