I’ve never believed local LEO will stand with the people. They have an “us vs them” mentality. And most of them are on a power trip.
Plus, they would all love to work for the feds. So, if the feds ask for some more firepower, they can’t wait to volunteer. And they don’t ask the feds for documentation.
At my age, and having grown up outside city limits, a local cop was the person you called in as a last resort, when you didn't want a specific situation to get out of hand, or when you saw that it already had.
Most people are generally law abiding citizens and have no love of vigilante justice.
That has changed over the years, and the justice system has been perverted at basic levels.
Some people think it is a mark of pride to avoid jury duty.Some people think it is the job of a publically appointed defense lawyer to halt a conviction of the crime they are guilty of committing. There is a case in Colorado you may have heard of...shooter apprehended by police outside a movie theater after he killed multiple people.
He admitted he was the shooter. He admitted he wanted to kill even more people, and told the cops his apartment was booby trapped to take out even more.
But we are all supposed to pretend to presume him entirely innocent of his crimes, and treat him as if he is merely “alleged” to be the mass murderor, while the legal case against him slowly works it way through the court system.
All the cops and everyone who knows any details are forbidden by a judge to talk openly to the public about the “incident”.
Lest his right to a “fair trial” be tainted by reports of the truth of what happened.
Is that justice?
How do you think the cops who had to deal with him feel now?
Who's side are you on?