Unfortunately both of you are in a position where you still see the police as Barney Fife going door to door on his beat and greeting the nice old ladies, striking up conversations with the neighborhood, kids, etc. You know - doing actual police work. In my lifetime I have never seen this type of police officer. However boomers I know say that at one point they were like this.
We pay more of our tax dollars to cover police mistakes than you are losing because of so called "liberal cities".
You are 58x more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist. Police have no duty to defend, qualified immunity, and virtually zero repercussions for senseless violence against civilians. Who pays for the civil suits and criminal attorneys when a police officer screws up? Yep, you guessed it, the tax payer.
The current iteration of police must go back to it's roots for people to take them seriously as true upholders of law. Remove qualified immunity, require bodycams to automatically upload footage, make it so the cameras cannot be turned off, and bring in a third party reviewer that is independent of all law enforcement. People are rightfully scared of the police. Punish police officers with the same severity as court martials. With the militarization of the police we don't have
law enforcement as much as an
occupational force that roams the streets. We need to change that. Bring back Barney Fife.
