Folks, we’ve seen innumerable reports right here on FR of police excesses, corruption, and outright blatant support of the Leftist regime - to say nothing of the shiny new tacticool weapons.
To deny these events occur is foolhardy at best.
It’s a police-bashing op-ed. To deny that is foolhardy at best.
We have to see the good and the bad in all situations.
I read a commentary by Peter Hitchens in the UK lamenting the fact that a solider being attacked by crazy Islamic killers can’t use weapons to defend himself, that civilians dressed up in heavy gear have to be deployed to do that.
It makes no sense.
The same thing happened at Fort Hood some years ago with the local police SWAT called in.
In Venezuela the “Leftist Regime” felt compelled ten years or so ago in the early days of what is now a disaster for that country to send national police around to local police stations to seize tactical weapons and shotguns leaving the locals with only pistols to deal with drug dealers and criminal gangs.
The police do a lot of good and they sometimes get hurt or killed for it.
Sometimes police do evil things, I always remember the SWAT team that stood guard and arrested people outside the building where Terri Schiavo died 10 years ago when Bushes (W and Jeb) were in power.
One day a few years ago a cop came to work one Saturday morning, then drove his patrol car into a wall along a highway I usually travel that time of day. The guy was suspected of drinking by his supervisor and tested well above the legal limit. He was fired.....
There’s good and bad with police, let’s keep it all in perspective and if I am driving over the speed limit today and get pulled over, then I deserve the consequences.