Reply #25: I'm seeing a lot of over the top hostility toward the cops

[riverdeep]

like they were the KGB or something. Absolutely, cops can be corrupt, entire departments can be corrupt. Individual cops can be nightmares. But to categorize the lot of them as useless and worse, doesn't strike me as anything but prejudiced.

These people enforce the laws, not create them. They didn't create the ludicrous three strike laws, or the drug laws. And I can only imagine going into a call for a neighborhood where no one is going to help, and I may get shot at by just someone random, isn't going to make me want to go there to often-that's also just human nature.