George Costanza
A Friendly Liberal
Yep. Cops are assholes on a power trip Every single one of them that I have ever met.That's a bunch ! I once owned a gun shop.Time and time again, police officers escalate an otherwise benign situation into a riot where, if they had remained calm themselves, nothing would ever have gotten out of hand. It isn't always necessary to lay hands on a citizen. Sometimes, merely talking to him/her will do the job. When a cop lays hands on a citizen, all too often, the citizen reacts. Game over.
I have seen this happen two or three times, always in a courtroom setting. I never once came away from one of those thinking anything except, if the cop had not lost his cool, it never would have developed into the knock down, drag out that it did.
The only good cops I ever knew QUIT because they realized their mission, in 90% of the situations, was to do financial harm to their victims.Pigs are nothing more than revenue collectors for the scumbags the run the various governments.
IDIT.
My grandfather was a cop and one of the biggest assholes on the planet.
I'm not saying anything of the kind here, and I think you know it. All I am saying is, that, I have seen a number of instances where police officers escalated an otherwise fairly tame situation, into something a lot worse.
Cops aren't "assholes" at all. They are trained to take command of situations, i.e., to not let situations get out of hand. They are trained to become very assertive and very aggressive very early on - that is how they are taught to maintain control. And that's right. That's the way to do it.
The problem is that it is often difficult for officers to make a snap decision and sometimes they overreact.