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Regarding police overall.

 

To a point, I agree with Eric. The majority of officers I have come into contact with casually in public about 85% are respectful and courteous. The other 15% are the ones who I despise because I have had the pleasant experience of being profiled and treated like a second class citizen during a traffic stop. Ive also witness times where officers abuse their power of authority in situations where it was unnecessary such as a small argument in a subdivision where people outside who are just observing are told to go inside their homes even when the element of danger is non-existent. 

 

 

I'd say even more than 15% of people in the real world are jerks.  Life is life - you have to deal with jerks.  If your boss is a jerk, then tough.  If you run into a jerk at McDonalds, tough.  If you run into a jerk cop who is writing you a speeding ticket when you were only going 3 over the speed limit, tough.

 

Cops have the right to stay one level of defense higher than what they are presented.  A fight with a cop is never an even fight, which seems to be what the anti-militarization crowd wants.  Guess what?  If an angry mob that can overtake and injure/kill a group of 50 officers is confrontational, you're darn right the cops should have riot gear, automatic weapons, and tear gas.

 

It seems pretty self-righteous to demand that police officers put themselves at even more risk of not going home to their families at night so you can feel better about someone getting into a fair fight with the police. 

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