re: #240 Gus

It’s OK to be critical and even pissed off sometimes. Responding against the bad cops — while claiming to be anti-violence — with violence just doesn’t make sense. It’s a pretty long leap to go from being pissed off at some cop for a body cavity search and then applauding cop-killers. That type of leap is pretty close to criminal behavior itself. I don’t put up with the “fuck the cops” crowd. They’re a strange lot.

Yes. I have been a critic of police malfeasance for years. However, anarchy sucks. Like, really really sucks.

Police are a necessary part of modern society. We can and we must do a better job of making the police actually serve the public interest. As things look right now to me as an outsider watching unvarnished opinions from police officers at a police-only chat area, it increasingly looks like many officers see themselves as actual combat troops occupying a war zone, and they acquire “tacti-cool” black uniforms, helmets and military weaponry (including M113 APC’s with .50 cal M2 machineguns and cast off MRAP vehicles from Afghanistan) which strongly reinforces their separation from the very population they are supposed to be a part of.

This must end. The police are part of us and they work for us. We are not a defeated people that needs to be subjugated and disciplined. Good cops know that.