Quote Originally Posted by foxtrot View Post
Those who enforce the law should be held to a more stringent standard than those who break it. Every good officer suffers because of this bullshit and the lack of any real ramifications of any kind. Our system is not one of justice however, it is an oligarchy of mere technicalities to enable biased judgments that please the king's anointed.
Agreed. Once upon a time here in America we had Peace Officers who were trained to de-escalate the situation. Today we have Law Enforcement Officers who are trained to dominate the situation.

That said we also once had a society of people that treated officers with respect and dignity, and not like they're there to be dicks and spoil everyone's fun or are the storm-troopers of the Patriarchy or Whitey or whatever idiocy people believe.

So the trade-off for our lack of a polite and genteel society is one where cops deal with trash day in and day out and innocent people get gunned down in the streets by them as a result.