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People need to realize that the police are under no obligation to do ANYTHING. They recently have been (at least around here) pretty blatant about refusing to do things that don't involve giving themselves more money and power too. They pretty routinely blow off calls they can't be bothered with.

Think about that the next time you hear some politician crowing about the need to "put more cops on the street" or that we need more laws to "prevent vigilantism". If the proverbial stuff ever hit the fan I wouldn't be at all surprised to see most of the cops sitting at home chilling out while society burned to ashes around them. As long as those paychecks keep coming and it doesn't endanger their ability to get easy overtime or jeopardize their pension plans any (pretty much a guarantee no matter what they do thanks to lobbying by the police unions), I doubt a lot of them would really give too much of a fk.

They recently published all state employee salaries online - being curious I did a search in descending order of salary. The first 30-40 pages were ALL either university employees or state police, some making well over $200k a year and a considerable number in the $300k-$400k range. No joke. These are state police milking OT for sitting in cruisers while road crews are digging up the highways for the most part - total gravy train (do a construction project around here and tell me you don't get shaken down for mandatory police details as a condition of permit...). Tell me what the priority is again?

FWIW this QB is an idiot. The team / league is acting foolishly to avoid taking a position on it (their official policy is "it's up to the individual but standing for the NA is 'encouraged'". I hope he gets fired and / or gets to meet a few navy sailors on shore leave or something. I bet they could teach him a thing or two about our country's values. Perhaps (even better) he can find a new country more to his liking - I would suggest Sudan, Yemen, North Korea or perhaps Somalia. I could care less about pro sports or the NFL. Screw 'em.