Nobody where I live is screaming about bad cops.
Post your zipcode and we'll investigate the facts. Dismissively referring to angry public reaction as "screaming" does not advance your argument.
Don’t you think that if there was a problem with cops being some sort of evil occupying force (like what I heard from leftists during the sixties and seventies), many people, including many leading conservative pundits and spokesmen, would have noticed?
American Civil Liberties Union
Huffington Post Salon
Wall Street Journal
New York Times
World Net Daily
The Atlantic
Forbes
I'm sure you've heard the expression, "Google is your friend". Use it.
Some of these anti-police screeds on this forum are bizarre.
So are many of the pro-jackboot posts. Your point?
Which makes me believe there’s a hidden motive.
Why would a motive be hidden? What sort of hidden motive do you suspect? From my standpoint, there is no need to hide the motive:
preservation of American freedom from tyrants who murder, steal and lie under color of law.
And no, I’m not nor never have been a policeman.
One does not need to be a Nazi to be a good German. Hyperbole? Perhaps, but in the pursuit of making exactly that point.