An Open Rant to Cop Haters, page 1

The police are out of control and suffer from an us versus them mentality.

They are desensitized to the real needs, plight and concerns of the people through endless training videos and seminars that tend to overstate or over simplify perspectives that serve no one well.

Tasked with enforcing thousands of often obscure codes that the citizens have no earthly idea even exist because hardly a day has gone by for decades when some new code isn’t voted into law by a government that seeks to regulate, tax or otherwise profit off of everything, that far too often leaves police no choice but to selectively enforce the laws because there are so many.

It is basically impossible to be in compliance with every last code and ordinance and I guarantee you that if a squad of police descended on your home, business, and vehicle right now they could fine some legitimate violation.

In reality we are all criminals in their eyes as it is impossible to know all the laws that constitute a crime to begin with but ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it.

So it often boils down to which law they want to enforce on what given day against whom and why in what is little more than a game of shooting fish in a barrel.

Often otherwise law abiding peaceful citizens find themselves being cited with some ridiculous ordinance they have never herd of and then have to spend hard earned money to either pay an attorney or pay a fine and court costs or both.

This sours a lot of law abiding citizens towards the police because they know in their hearts that they are not murderers, thieves, rapists, or violent people. They know in their hearts they are decent good human beings who try their best to get along and be productive in society. They often don’t agree with the obscure ordinance they have been cited with, or why they had to be cited when the violation hurt no one in their person or property and why it couldn’t just be a learning experience.

To the police that are little more than bonded henchmen for the corporate government it’s an opportunity to create profit for the government and assert their power.

Yes some cops are decent people, go out of their way to give a person a break, and really are out there focused on the bad guys.

Yet most of the police force suffers from a siege mentality as well as arrogance and a certain penchant for sadism.

Gone for the most part is the cop that walks his beat who knows the citizens on it, by name, and where they live, and who is in their family, and other human particulars. Gone are the days of real quality interaction with the community where police function as role models and civic leaders. Trapped in their vehicles glued to a laptop screen, listening to their radios, cruising up and down the street looking for that selective opportunity that compels them to enforce the law in those selective ways that anger many, many law abiding citizens, and often angers them for good reason.

The government is continually gearing the police towards viewing all citizens as potential terrorists and viewing all citizens as potential suspects and in reality with over 600,000 laws, ordinances and codes on the books here in the United States we all are guilty of some violation of the law and it’s just a matter of time more often than not until big brother chooses to notice.

It’s a very screwed up system like everything else in government that has gotten too big, too intrusive and too powerful for it’s own good to the point it starts existing for itself and not to do the job we the people elect it or pay it to do.

As far as never being in situations, I have been in dozens of situations, and often interceded myself to end it in a fashion that when the police show up later they look at me and just ask “Are you nuts, you could have gotten killed you know that?”, I always reply honestly “Why yes I am, but I didn’t, and no one else did, and they might have had I not acted to stop this crime.”

The reality is they want us to be more dependent on them than we need to be, they want us to be helpless so that’s just how we will feel when our lucky 1 out of 600,000 number comes up.

If the cops have an image problem and they do, it’s on them.

You don’t go to watch musical groups you don’t like, or actors you don’t like, or vote for politicians you don’t like do you?

If you represent a group that by and large fails to impress and more often than not insults or upsets people, well, I wouldn’t expect many people to like anyone who chooses to be in that group.

Government is out of control, law enforcement is out of control, the laws themselves are out of control.

[edit on 1/12/09 by ProtoplasmicTraveler]