Someone has to say it. Being a cop doesn't automatically make you a benefit to society. Sure, stable systems of law enforcement are good for society as a whole, here's why you'll never catch me waving a thin blue line flag.
Remember, these are the same cops who will:
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Lock you in jail for a dimebag of weed while everyone ignores Hunter Biden's crack habit and illegal guns.
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Will sit around while children get shot like fish in a barrel and fail to save many lives because when it comes down to brass tacks they're too chickenshit to do the hard parts of their job.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-leader-uvalde-police-response-abject-failure-85530945
- Shut down your business over covid ordinances and arrest you if you do not comply.
- Taze and arrest you on BS trespassing charges for refusing to wear a mask.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/24/woman-tased-arrested-for-not-wearing-mask-at-football-game/
- Show up to your house completely unannounced and demand to violate your right against unreasonable search and seizure without a warrant.
https://citizenfreepress.com/column-3/get-a-warrant-or-get-the-hell-out/
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Enforce red flag laws and seize your guns with no due process.
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Confiscate your firearms once the bans lefties all want go through.
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Herd you into the box cars and take you off to the camps when it gets to that point.
So no. I will not fly a blue line flag. Nobody gets credit just for being a cop with me.
Every single cop needs to put their foot down, stand up for people's rights, and WALK THE FUCKING WALK.
Otherwise they're just as bad as the Stasi.
Fight me about it. Prove me wrong.
If you believe that the Uvalde event was a FF, it is hardly a good example for proving your point. I can tell that you have very limited interaction with LEO's. What examples of personal interactions do you have that prove your point? Was it broken taillights and dime bags of weed? A fixit ticket is hardly an abuse of power, a bag of weed is only found when you have done something to attract their attention as a probable person of interest. What is it about you that attracts scrutiny from law enforcement?
I've had an female officer threaten to arrest me if I took her pen.
You have very odd interactions with law enforcement. I think there are certainly some interesting stories that you have about your meetings with law enforcement. I would hazard a guess that you are not particularly fond of authority figures in general. It sounds to me that you are possibly a rebellious type of person that questions authority and it gets you into conflict with any positions of authority. I am not disparaging you, I have the same tendencies. I think I just have tamed those impulses within myself and because I do have so many friends and family that are law enforcement, I have a better understanding of what they have to deal with. My sister was an LEO, a detective at the end. I have listened to many of her stories and experiences. She died earlier this year and was dedicated enough to keep working cases and trying to pass on her caseload to other detectives while on her deathbed. The concept of law and order and right and wrong drove her to try to put away all the criminals that came across her desk. These were genuinely bad people people doing terrible things. This wasn't traffic violations and minor drug offenses, there were actual victims that she fought to get some relief for. Catching the criminal doesn't undo the damage that had been done, but it did provide them with some relief and helped them feel like someone cared. The fact that half the criminals she spent weeks and months building solid cases on were released in a few months was genuinely painful to her, but she was in a deep blue area in a deep blue State. She knew the system was corrupt and she knew it was broken, but she also knew why. She knew what the agenda was, but she just worked harder to build up solid cases that were difficult to ignore. Ones that could make the news and force the DA's to take it to court. These are the cops you never see or hear about. She was greatly respected because she cared. Even after all the shit she saw in 20+ years of law enforcement, she still cared and loved her job. She loved tracking down criminals that had gotten away with serious crimes for years and helping to get them off the street and keep them from continuing to victimize the weak and helpless. She expressed anger and determination, especially for people that victimize children and the elderly. The weak and helpless are what will suffer in a lawless society. It isn't about you and your ability to defend yourself. Are you going to defend the weak and the helpless? Are you going to stop bad people from hurting those that can't protect themselves? For every cop out there that gives you grief for weed and traffic violations, there are cops trying to remove criminals that would prey on your friends and family, even you. We can't be everywhere and we aren't trained to follow the patterns of career or spree criminals. Do we just hope they run across someone who will kill them? This might be futile because the smart criminals can tell a victim from a predator, they target the weak and avoid those that may be a threat. The weak ones band together in gangs and have less to fear. The strong ones either lead these gangs or just go it alone. Only the dumb ones attack the strong victims. These end up in the news and die young, but they are the minority in the criminal world. Whether you like it or not, law enforcement are needed. The bad cops ruin the reputation of all the good ones. The news focuses all their attention on the bad ones to build up the agenda that cops are not needed and need to be eliminated. This will only lead to chaos and the unrestrained victimization of people that are weak and unable to defend themselves. This isn't about you or me, we aren't prey and are capable of protecting ourselves and those around us, but we don't actively seek out criminals and don't enforce the protection of the weak. We can't be everywhere and we can't help those when we aren't there.
Your mostly right, I do feel that way about authority.
And I appreciate that there are in fact good people out there in those positions. However, is it possible you're biased, and viewing your sister in an unrealistically positive light? Is it possible that she wronged people without your knowledge?
It's largely irrelevant though, I hope you understand. My comments are directed primarily towards a tainted system, which transforms good people into... well, something else, I suppose. There's something that happens to people when they're given too much power. They change.
The fact that they appoint themselves and investigate themselves, in particular is the source of their un-checked power which leads to their corruption.
The solution is to enable serious, impactful, oversight of police and law enforcement by a third party. Consequences.
Cops should be absolutely sure you've committed a CRIME before ever speaking to you, and when they do, there should be terror running through their veins, and they should be concerned for their own standing lest they are found later in court to have violated a citizen's rights.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
The people fear the government, and and thus, there is tyranny. It's really that simple.
Their job is practically impossible as it is. They catch them red-handed and the DA lets them walk. They have to face the victims and explain that they did the best they could. They see horrors that you can't imagine and manage not to murder child molesters and rapists. The system failed the cops, not the other way around.
If Uvalde was a false flag, that makes everything 100x worse.
It means that there are infiltrators in depts and agencies that have an agenda. The enemy isn't the majority of LEO's, but someone that wants to destroy the foundation of this country. That is pretty much why we are all here, we recognize the true threat. It isn't our Justice system, it isn't our Christian based laws, it isn't the three branch government, it isn't our Constitution, it isn't our Constitutional Representative Republic. We are under siege, and if we don't concentrate on the true enemy, but divide ourselves and destroy our own structure, we will end up losing and devolving into chaos and a new Dark Age.