Arresting the kids

[1-Old-Man]

35. I'm in the same boat as you

I do not trust the police (local, County, State, or Federal) at all. The one thing that is common among all totalitarian states of the last 150 years it is that they exercise their authority over their own citizens by way of the police. I think its also interesting to note that at least in my readings no dictator ever had trouble taking control of the police force or was able to take control of the country before they took control of its police forces. In short police forces have a history of being used as a primary tool of oppression and I daresay that not one of them is free of corruption - meaning employing the selective enforcement of laws as patronage - at some level and frequently at a glaringly obvious level. Need anyone here be reminded of how Occupy-(you fill in the blank) were treated all around the country?

A harsh critic of the police once said that as far as he could see a cop was just a garbageman with a badge and a gun. By that he meant that in many communities the job requirements and pay were the same for a policeman or a garbageman and that therefore each job attracted the same quality of applicant. In far too many places its a valid argument.