Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Yup. What happens EVERY TIME a cop murders an unarmed citizen, even when the crime is caught on video? They circle the wagons and insist that their "brother officer" is innocent. EVERY SINGLE TIME.>> That is usually not the official reaction by the department. By the cops, yes. Cops tend to live in a very closed society. I don't personally know any, but know women married to them. They rarely socialize with people who aren't fellow cops and generally have few friends outside of the department. They are often not just defending a co-worker, but a good friend. That doesn't make it acceptable but perhaps makes it somewhat more understandable.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>They rarely socialize with people who aren't fellow cops and generally have few friends outside of the department<< That is a very problematic statement. It certainly explains why they see EVERYONE as the enemy. Oh well, we now live in a near totalitarian "comply or die" society. Stalin would have been proud and somewhere Nikita Khrushchev is laughing his head off, for we indeed have been "buried" and are no longer a free people.
Originally Posted By fkurucz Every time I see a police cruiser behind me I get a shiver down my spine, because I know that if I'm pulled over for whatever trivial reason I could end up shot dead and the cop would lie about what happened and almost certainly get away with it. God Bless America!
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<That is a very problematic statement. It certainly explains why they see EVERYONE as the enemy.>> I think that is very true. Any group that remains as isolated as they do does not get a "normal" view of society. In ways it is like being part of a cult.
Originally Posted By Tikiduck I grew up with a couple of guys who became cops. You bet it changed them, and not for the better. More clannish and cynical by far. Is it just me, or do the majority of police seem rather on the conservative side?
