I'll bet these same cops are quite supportive of police drones and city-wide security cameras watching everyone. How come these union folks are not decrying those intrusions into citizens lives? Or, the "quite an intrusion" of violating curtilage, demanding identity documents without RAS, etc, etc, etc.?
It's not bashing to say that cops have one job. To make arrests. The rest is collateral. To do this they are allowed to lie, to provocate, to use force, to plant evidence, to arrest for something that's not a crime, to say they were ignorant of the law and let the judge sort it out. They are allowed to bully, pressure, bargain but not follow through. We HOPE they don't do this to normal LACs, and use these tactics when dealing with a public menace.
If they do it too much, they BECOME the public menace. Most of us know that we fear one thing and that's the cops (and heavy handedness and lethality without review) because you can't fight back. I don't fear the average BG. I don't fear random muggings, or random burglaries, because I can be sure I don't appear to be a soft target. But to a cops, a LAC who appears to be a 'hard target' is a CHALLENGE to take down. Why? Because they can. They can't get respect from criminals, but they can reduce the normal LAC to a pile of rubble by piling on, bodies, charges, lies, assaults, and their brothers will stand by and do nothing.
Somehow we need to turn the tide. We need to get the LEOs on our side. I do a little of this at every gun show I go to, make a friend, get a business card. It's the only path available, because we are cannon fodder, hampered by rules and laws and rulings which protect the criminals. We are treated LIKE criminals because that's all cops know. It's hard to blame them, but it doesn't make life any better for the LAC who just wants to be left in peace.
/Rant
