It’s a sad change over the past 20 years or so. Parents used to tell their kids that the police are there to help you; now the best advice is that the police are not your friend — they are there to arrest somebody.
Kevin Williamson in National Review wrote an excellent column a year or so ago. Cops are not the good guys. We naturally stand for law and order. Most of the big cities are run by guess who?
It’s a sad change over the past 20 years or so.
Agreed. Between this and civil forfeiture, my confidence in the justice system has been demolished. I used to be for the death penalty, but I no longer trust the system to apply it fairly. The police are in it to arrest people and prosecutors are in it to convict them. Actual guilt is not something they care about. More and more, it makes me ashamed of our system.