[rdcbn]

Your attitude suggest a certain hostility to police officers.

Where does that contradict the thesis that teaching police officers that many people in the public are hostile to them and thus they should always assume they are potentially dealing with a hostile person until they determine otherwise is a justifiable and legitimate default position.

[7thson]

A story I read in the news a couple years back. Police team breaks down the door to a guys house to arrest him. He is a pedophile dealing in child pornography. Except its the wrong guy. The pedophile lived next door and was piggybacking on the wrong guys internet. Is anything wrong here?

I say yes. First, they are dealing with a pedo, not a gang banger. Why the SWAT team? Go to the guys place of employment, pick him up off the street, do something else instead of disrupting the neighborhood and scaring everyone else.

Do I have a certain hostility to police? A little. Remember how they were pointing their weapons at citizens in Boston? They are not our friends. I will call them - and have - if something bad is going down but I don't trust them. Not by a long shot.