An image like this popped into my mind:
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.
A lot of people who live in non-rural areas don’t feel that leaving is an option...for all the usual reasons. I envy you and your situation, but my path did not take me to a place like yours.
Perhaps someday, it will.
An image like this popped into my mind:
> “ In my youth I had too many cops treat me with far more respect than I deserved and I won’t forget that.” <<
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I can make the same statement, but cops today are in no way like the cop of 1960.