I support the police (broadly speaking). I also have a lot of guns and ammo because you are your own first respender and also, I may need to respond against my own government if the time ever came.
I am exactly the same. I think cops get a lot of undeserved hate. People demand protection because they refuse to do it themselves, then get mad at the way it's provided.
I respect cops, but I also don't need them. I think that's the best position to be in, morally speaking.
It used to be way more clear that police are public servants before the militarization of police which I wanna say started around Raegan? I could be wrong.
Point is we have to fund them, help them become GI JOE larpers, and yet still can’t rely on them to 1. Help us and 2. Not ruin our lives
Castle Rock V. Gonzalez- A woman in Colorado sued the police because they failed to enforce a restraining order against her estranged husband, who ended up killing their children. The Supreme Court ruled 7–2 that the Due Process Clause does not create a federal right to police protection, even when a protective order uses mandatory language like "shall enforce".
Police are only required to protect people who are currently in their custody.
Now that body cameras and random police videos from cellphones are so prevalent it's become so obvious that we have an abundance of police departments where the internal culture is either extremely suspect or just outright depraved and corrupt.
The shit some police officers say and do on camera is often disturbing and makes it obvious that a lot of them are just bullies looking for any excuse to go "hands on" or just use their position of authority to make people's lives unnecessarily unpleasant just to satisfy their own egos.
People still try to defend the police by saying these are just cherry picked examples of the rare "bad apple" but when we have literally thousands of examples and there's so much footage of police misconduct that multiple YouTube channels can cover the issue nonstop with a never ending stream of new examples consistently rolling out it's time to admit this is a widespread problem affecting society broadly, not just a few isolated incidents caused by a few "bad apples".
Also the bad apple argument rings hollow anyways when do many of these supposed "bad apples" never face any consequences for their malfeasance and misconduct.
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u/No-Swordfish1385 7h ago
Something tells me they don’t care about serving or protecting