I have a relative (by marriage) who is a cop. He’s a wannabe cowboy with a large ego. He is representative of all cops in my way of thinking and I would not trust his fat ass as far as I could throw him. Only one time passing through Wyoming did I encounter a real LEO. I was speeding, I spotted him too late, I knew I…

Beautiful (chef’s kiss). 

It isn’t a difficult job. Not the people who pull you over to give you a ticket. I’ve known lots of cops. I grew up around them. They’re just people. Some of them are dumb as posts and still manage to do the job. Stop fetishizing them as heroes. 

And murdering unarmed black men at every opportunity by shooting them in the back or kneeling on their neck until they suffocate.

I constantly try to intelligently respond to these brainwashed gun humpers to have undying faith and respect for police and usually flip flop between an actual well thought out response based off my experience & knowledge of police due to friends and family actually being Chicago PD. I usually realize all the…

You got that right!  And I come from a family of cops. I've seen the inside.  Lucky for me I was born too vision impaired to get sucked into that life.  But I did enjoy a lot of free seized drugs!

Yep this. The police demand to search for two reasons - to either find a reason to hit their quota with a higher fines/jail sentence (in states where jails are for profit) or to plant evidence so they can hit their quota with higher fines/jail sentence.

She’s basically arguing for a return of the days where Republicans did their best to not say the quiet part out loud, not an actual change in their policies or governing style.

WELL SAID

That is a really nice made up percentage. You know what else is special about that made up percentage? They are part of the blue line, so they cover for the bad ones.

They also make it more dangerous by abusing their authority. they know they can get away with anything, and they do. They know they do not have to be patient, so they aren’t. They can give all the attitude they want, and you cannot. When you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail.

Made more dangerous but he fact that the American public is fucking armed to to the teeth (with more guns than citizens in the USA) and that everyone wants to avoid responsibility and have an exception made for them.

The Overton Window is so damn far right that even the most liberal Democrats are now centrists compared to other first world democracies.

With the Republican party radicalizing further into antidemocracy, antebellum positions, I suppose an old-school hard-right establishment conservative like Liz could be described as centrist, but I don’t know that it enhances our understanding to frame it like that.

Don’t fall for it, she’s just clout chasing.

Spoken like someone who has never been on either side of an interaction with the police.  Count your lucky stars, and hope you don’t ever come to the attention of an ill-trained, racially biased high school dropout who couldn’t get a better, safer job if they wanted to.  And they likely don’t want to because those…

I hope you don’t mind my putting this statement in my personal documents. It’s such a perfect summation (I’ll give due credit).

Their job isn’t even as scary as they try  convincing the public it is. More pizza delivery boys die annually than cops. 

LMAO get fucked bootlicker. 

It’s also made more dangerous by our (lack of) gun laws. In most Western countries police officers don’t walk into every interaction assuming that the other party might be armed with a firearm.