[Porsche-O-Phile]

There is no obligation on the part of the police whatsoever to protect your property or even your life. You're expected to trust them completely, place all your safety in their hands, forego any right to protect yourself (if you do you're likely to be branded an instigator or vigilante and prosecuted) and let them handle it. If they don't feel like doing so that day, too bad for you. You have no recourse. Modern (unionized) police forces the biggest protection shakedown scam in history. They make the mafia jealous. Think of that the next time you see them strutting around in their expensive "hoo-rah" tactical gear or blasting through traffic endangering people's lives for the oh-so-critical task of pulling over someone to write a traffic ticket from the helm of their $50,000 highly-modded cruiser.

I was raised to trust and respect the police and they deserved it back then. Nowadays not so much. More and more I see them as being there largely just to prop up our corrupt system by force and occasionally shake money out of the public-at-large to pay for it. If the police want us to respect them again maybe they ought to try earning it rather than demanding it.

Yes, looter criminals are scumbags but as the saying goes, "it takes two to tango". The PD is hardly blameless and with increasingly confiscatory government policies being enforced via increasingly militarized police units we can unfortunately expect to see more of these kinds of incidents in the future. Demagogues like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton (and Michelle Obama) stoking the fires of racial tension certainly don't help matters any.