Da Fuzz

Slinking in the slime that is the Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy that is ARFCOM (®Tam)...

Whenever the topic of "we the citizens don't want the cops doing x" comes up there's almost always a "when something happens you'll be on the phone begging for us to come!" response from some cop.

Well, they're right.

Should the dread moment come and I have to shoot and kill someone who's broken into my house it's illegal to NOT call the cops.  I checked.  At the very least it's illegal to dispose of the body on my own.

What our eager law enforcement apologists are missing about "we don't want you doing x" does not mean we don't want cops, that we don't like cops or want cops to do absolutely nothing.

There's gobs of things I want the cops doing.  Owning APC's isn't one.  Dressing like they're in Afghanistan isn't one.  No-knock searches isn't one.  Shooting anyone they want with impunity isn't one.

The cops who reply to these threads...  Oy gevalt!

Weer'd recently gave us a list of occupations which are more dangerous than law enforcement.  I will concede that none of the more dangerous occupations are expected to stay at work if things get lethal.  Expected.  Not required; because unlike a soldier, a cop can quit and walk off the job any time he wants with no more sanction on future employment than an accountant would encounter.

I am constantly astonished at the justifications for "officer safety" made to obtain armored vehicles, machine guns etc...  The resistance to having their activities recorded and monitored is telling in and of itself.  Aren't cops one of the first groups to tell US that if we've nothing to hide, we've nothing to fear?

Their radios are now encrypted "to prevent a criminal from listening in and avoiding arrest."  Yet they resist having their comms recorded for later review, "criminals will learn our procedures".  Bull.

Some of it I get, in the PC infested waters, you don't want to get nailed for saying something you shouldn't have whether you meant ill or not.  Yet...

If the police do not answer to the communities they "serve" they aren't really serving are they?

And this is the place where citizen hostility to the police is born, nurtured and fed to hostility and obstinance.  If we can trust you, Officer, why are you so adamant about hiding so much of what you do?

There will be more.  I want to talk about the sense of entitlement and unionization next.