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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan't have "law and order" if the Police continually violate them.
While I'm sure the vast majority of police work is a mystery to me, no apologist can hide from a simple bit of common sense:
The first thing a police officer must do is obey the law, and what we see across America - while not actually a new thing - is that people are realizing more and more how little the law means to so-called "law-enforcement officers."
They behave as if the authority vested in them as a public trust to enforce the law were akin to a personal title to arbitrary power. Clearly that is not the case.
When you wield powerful weapons against a peaceful group of citizens expressing their views, you are the criminal and disorderly element that needs to be arrested.
When you physically attack people are not engaging in violence, going so far as to injure or even kill them, you are a rioter, and assaulter, if it goes far enough, a murderer.
The law is not on the side of the police when they behave this way. If the police will not act with authority, then the public must restore order against out-of-control rogue police.
helpmetohelpyou
(589 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Are equally guilty
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)I know it isn't something recent but it isn't what I grew with.
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)Without the WoD, or trawling the streets for people carrying them (or to plant on them), there's just not that much for a large police force to do on a daily basis. They'd be chasing around kids on skateboards and become truant officers again. Real Mayberry stuff.