Watch yer six. Criticize the cops around here and the “law-and-order” crowd will start tagging you a Commie cop killer sympathizer before you can blink.
If there are people in law enforcement I especially would like to talk with them. They may have the best insights of all.
I think it’s the higher-ups who are screwing things up. Just like the NCIS screwed up the Haditha scenario - probably because John Murtha holds the purse strings. And just like Eric Holder screwed up the New Black Panther Party case. And Jamie Gorelick screwed up the investigation of Atta a year before the 9-11 attacks. Etc. Etc.
It’s when people get power that they become somebody different. Our form of government has always been about finding a way to hold corruptible people accountable.
A couple different times some cops tried to do a background check on Obama. THEY got into trouble. How can any person be held outside the reach of law enforcement? This is asinine. It’s unconstitutional.
I fear we are too apathetic to do anything about it. We’re going to become Mexico, where the drug lords sewed their rival’s face to a soccer ball. By the time America wakes up it will be too late.
“Watch yer six. Criticize the cops around here and the “law-and-order” crowd will start tagging you a Commie cop killer sympathizer before you can blink.”
Don’t know - I’ve posted twice in recent months about the growing citizen outrage in my locale towards the clear shift in local police tactics from “protect and serve” to that of revenue agents padding the locale coffers with “cite and collect”, at the expense of preventing and solving real crimes. And neither time has there been a single response taking me to task here at FR.
Maybe even the “law-and-order” crowd here are having some doubts, perhaps questioning the selective use and enforcement of questionable laws, or asking, “what price order?”