[brent13a]

The popo is not your friend.

That's correct; just like the saying that parents should never strive to be their children's friend.

Why should the police be 'friends' with anyone? Police should be friendly at the correct times, but they should never be anyone's 'friend'.

Half the time police are spending that time being surrogate parents to grown adult children and their children anyway (aside from the time police spend doing steroids and dealing meth out of their trunks of course).

When police start being friends to people on a one-on-one basis you get stupid problems all around. Just like the justice system isn't your friend....it's supposed to be adversarial by design....law enforcement is part of that adversarial justice system.

[hinckley buzzard]

There was a time in this country when "the cop on the beat" was known and respected by the citizens. He was friendly with law abiding inhabitants of his beat. He didn't go around shooting pets on orders of a distant uninformed bureaucracy "just in case" one of them might be sick. Of course, back then cops used judgment, just like other adults.

[Augie]

‘To protect and serve’ comes to mind.

I have no qualms about disposing of wildlife that becomes a nuisance to people or property.

I do have a problem with an arbitrary determination made by the ‘authorities’, and that determination then being carried out with extreme prejudice and without any advance notice to a property owner.

That sort of behavior is fundamentally wrong and should never happen in a ‘free’ country.