"Frankly, and I say this as the son of a retired deputy, mostcops these days are just scared enough to be dangerous.
Note that you don't hear very much about police killing heavily-armed paramilitary soldiers following six-hour firefights; it's three patrolmen vs. one disoriented homeless guy who isn't resisting in the first place. They fear the public in the same way that farmers "fear" livestock; they're wary of a nip, but they don't respect the hogs.
At the risk of putting myself on yet another watchlist, this won't change until police are really, truly afraid of the public. Not of individual targets, but of people in general.
How different would the Kelly Thomas event have turned out if two weeks prior a crowd of onlookers had dragged police off of a suspect they were beating and pummeled the hell out of them? What if the SWAT team conducting the raid on the mayor of Berwyn Heights was confronted by a few neighbors with shotguns? And at the risk of sounding like I'm advocating something I'm not, what if the next time a cop shoots a dog in someone's front yard the owner returns fire, kills the cop, and is acquitted?
Police won't respect non-police until the public in general loses its fear of the police."
Note that you don't hear very much about police killing heavily-armed paramilitary soldiers following six-hour firefights; it's three patrolmen vs. one disoriented homeless guy who isn't resisting in the first place. They fear the public in the same way that farmers "fear" livestock; they're wary of a nip, but they don't respect the hogs.
At the risk of putting myself on yet another watchlist, this won't change until police are really, truly afraid of the public. Not of individual targets, but of people in general.
How different would the Kelly Thomas event have turned out if two weeks prior a crowd of onlookers had dragged police off of a suspect they were beating and pummeled the hell out of them? What if the SWAT team conducting the raid on the mayor of Berwyn Heights was confronted by a few neighbors with shotguns? And at the risk of sounding like I'm advocating something I'm not, what if the next time a cop shoots a dog in someone's front yard the owner returns fire, kills the cop, and is acquitted?
Police won't respect non-police until the public in general loses its fear of the police."
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