re: One officer says, shut up and take it.

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I would expect the quality of the officers to deteriorate in the near future.

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That is already happening.

That being said, the few run-ins I have ever had with police (speeding) I have always been smart enough not to tick the guy off who literally holds my life in his hands.

But I find it a sad state of affairs that in the United States, in 2014, we fear our police as much as we do.

Now some say that there are just a few aggressive bad apples who make the rest look bad. But the general attitude of our police forces is, we do what we want, you don't like it, enjoy jail.

How often have police reviews of behavior/shootings after the fact ever resulted in the cops not protecting their own?