[will944]

Originally Posted by cockerpunk

while i think this is a problem, i think there is a MUCH deeper problem. the problem is the type of person who has increasingly becoming cops. maybe it was before my time, but i'd like to believe there was a time when cops knew they were civil servants and not hunting down john Q public. now it seems cops are rude, unfriendly, not helpful, and if you ask or confront them about anything, they will mouth off to you. they use and bend, and break the rules to there advantage, never getting investigated much less punished for there transgressions. getting caught only means someone gets away with a DUI typically, and all the times some poor dude didn't lawyer up, the cop gets away with it. i mean there has always been corruption in law enforcement, but thats not really what im talking about. im talking about the tacit understanding that the ends justify the means in the police.

i think its a personality thing honestly. i think the kind of people drawn into law enforcement are very often those types of people, who love the power, love the authority etc etc. a cop will never defuse a situation, if someone escalates it, they will go right up to that level with the person. its sick. its honestly, a bit pathetic.

id, never met a cop i liked. and i don't mean that even in the side of the road situation, i mean socially as well. they are just ... kinda dicks. idk.

idk, maybe that time never existed, or maybe i have not met the right cop or something, but thats my observations anyway.

That is exactly what the book is about (though maybe misleading by using the term militarization). It discusses cops thinking they are fighting a war against John Q Public. Raids on people's homes, bullying, etc.

I agree. There was a time when cops were very different than they are now. All I see are a bunch of uniformed people on a power trip.