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The police used to be true members of the community. But over the past two decades, the police all around the country have seemingly adopted a policy of "us against them" .
It seemed to have started with the whole concept of the war on drugs. Even small towns equip their police force like a para-military group. With armored cars, a full time swat team, etc. I live in a town with virtually zero crime and pretty pricey homes, and our police force has TWO armored car style personnel carriers. Complete with gun ports on the side and a battering ram on the front. What the FUCK do they need that for??? Obviously they feel terribly threatened in the same community they are sworn to protect.
And it's not just a few bad apples. Whenever a cop is accused of wrongdoing, all the other cops support him. If they were all good, they would want the bad cops thrown out. But they always support bad cops, no matter what they do. In Chicago last year, that cop beat up a woman in a bar for nearly 3 minutes straight and it was all caught on video and was shown around the world. There was no question what happened, the cop is a violent criminal. Yet Chicago cops all supported the guy, even gave him an escort to court and kept the media from his home so he could have his privacy.
If cops are so good, why didn't they just throw that guy to the dogs? There are countless stories like that.
I think we need to pay police more money and require more training so we can attract a better group of people to that occupation. I think becoming a cop requires one of the lowest levels of training for almost any job, doesn't it?
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