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I am not going to hire someone to deal with the very worst of our society and then fail to protect them as best I can.

I would tend to agree if the rules were the same all the way around, but they're not. OUR privacy is not protected from an entire slew of government officials including police. They make lists, watch our finincial transactions, credit card purchases, stop our cars at DUI roadblocks with dogs asking for papers, make us undress at airports, grope our women....and it's all legally sanctioned.

I guarantee that 99% of all cops will excuse or endore everything above. I've seen this mentality on this forum, it's a certain mindset that puts police in a special category who are entitled to take such liberties with our privacy.

I think this site is great, we're looking back at them. The internet makes the world small again, not much different than a small town say 100 years ago where your Sheriff was known by everyone.

....and it's all legally sanctioned.

Then the cops are not the right target for your rage are they?

The internet makes the world small again, not much different than a small town say 100 years ago where your Sheriff was known by everyone.

And the sheriff also knew everyone in town and had a chance of being able to perceive where a personal threat might come from. Not so now.... The town that cop still must work in is no longer small. You are concerned that the police have access to information about the entire populace, to use in the event that they might need to look at one of us. That is the gift of a city block full of file cabinets full of stuff that one would never care to look at in entirety.

This is not that.... this is a website singling our cops to those most likely to be leading the angry mob.

I guarantee that 99% of all cops will excuse or endorse everything above. I've seen this mentality on this forum, it's a certain mind set that puts police in a special category who are entitled to take such liberties with our privacy.

Well said. It's seems obvious the LEO's, in this case, took advantage of Sheehan's loyalty to his friend(?) The legal system decided to make an example out of him, put him through their grinder, then cut him the slack he deserved (apparently) in the first place.

I don't blame him for being angry and wanting a little, virtual, "street justice".

The internet makes the world small again, not much different than a small town say 100 years ago where your Sheriff was known by everyone.

Once again, well said. A hundred years ago, a LEO in a small town that became too ambitious about the letter of the law and had disregard for the spirit, might find his boots nailed to the porch one morning. Police are public servants, not representatives of the King.