Part of the militarizaion of the police.Be very glad we don’t yet have a unified national police as in most countries.
FBI, TSA, ATF, DEA, Etc...
God help us if they ever unify.
>Part of the militarizaion of the police.
Cops, military, and most Americans are all people who are unusually geared towards engaging in group competitions. The psychology naturally views the world as groups, either their own, or outsiders. If Mexican citizens naturally came up here all the time, we would differentiate ourselves from the outsiders. If twenty people are killed in Afghanistan in a suicide bombing, and three are American Military, and 17 are MSNBC journalists, we view the military death as a great loss. The traitrous Libs, not so much.
Libs are exactly the opposite. They seek to stifle group competition, so they align with the interests of out-groups, castigate their fellow citizen, and seek to betray their own.
Cops viewing their own as a group isn’t so bad. The psychology will help them to be good at their job.
They do rely on each other to battle evil, feel compelled to protect civilians, and generally support freedom and Conservatism. When they start catering to evil, be it criminals, or a Lib dictator, then we’ll have problems we’ll need to deal with. Until then, a little esprit de corps in’t that bad.