re: Has there been a shift in support for law enforcement?

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I suggest you go to Officer Down Memorial Page and watch how fast some officers have been killed.

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Completely irrelevant. Link to all the bad shots that they have made.

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You can't complain about qualified immunity when officers die, on the regular.

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I can and I will. You bootlickers hate Americans having rights, but I still have the 1st Amendment that lets me freely critique the armed, unintelligent, goons of a mostly corrupt government.

7 or 8 years ago I was driving a truck down the highway when I felt a tire go down.
That old truck had a jack, 4-way and a full size spare on board so I wasn't too concerned when I pulled off the shoulder.
I no more got the floor jack out of the bed when a county cop pulled up behind me. I thanked him when he walked up for running blocker, as the tire needing changed was on the drivers side.
He asked for my drivers license, which I gave him without any concern.
He brought it back, said have a nice day and drove off. Left me there to finish changing the tire on the side of a highway.
I shook my head and thought to myself- "serve and protect"?

Its like every other profession

There is Great, Good, Bad, and Terrible

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I think small town police are actually the worst.

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They are. I meant to add that. They work for underfunded police departments so they have minimum training. The pay is shite so they have to take anyone willing to work for them.

In my parish there are 5 municipalities with their own police department. Four of them likely has no more than 3... four at the most.. police officers. One of them might only have two.

The parish gives these departments their budget every year. That includes paying a chief of police, the officers, an office worker, equipment, etc. The funny thing is that their are parish deputies all through the parish and they are near these areas. Something happens, because they are in their cars already, they can get their faster than the city police, but the parish deputies are only suppose to get involved in issues in city limits, if they need more help than they have the man power for.

If something happens near the parish/city line and a parish deputy is there and in control of the situation, the police chiefs think that's the sheriff's office trying to take control of their area. It becomes a shite show.

If they got rid of the police departments in the municipalities and give that money to the sheriffs office, that could allow them to add new officers (who are better trained) and give their officers a bump in pay which could help attract better officers. And the sheriffs department handle issues in those areas.

Im sure every state have ways they could reorganize their law enforcement throughout the whole state, but its government, they never do anything the practical way.

Of course your bigger cities needs their own police force, but the small town police. Most of the calls they deal with are bullshite calls, they don't have much experience handling anything that doesn't happen often. When those situations come up, they are in the way more than anything. There is no need for a parish/county to have 4-5 elected chief of police, a half arse police department, etc.

I never trusted the police and never will.
But I always root for them when I'm watching cops.

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Many of them were the type to be picked on in their younger years, and turn to police work for the gun and the badge and the feelings of power that come with it

It's especially true these days as most of the "good" cops have left the job and recruitment is scrapping the bottom of the barrel for qualified applicants.

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I grew up in small town and my uncle was super close with a bunch of the "city" PD and local state troopers. They were respectable and at least reasonably intelligent guys. Or at least that's how they came off to me as a 10-14 year old.

Now that I'm an adult, the people I am seeing become police are just a completely different quality of men. Obviously not in a good way.

eta: geography and demographics are a big factor though. I'm sure the small town PD I'm referring to gets better candidates because there's literally no chance they ever get smoked by some triple felon drug dealer on the side of the highway or whatever.

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Anyone who is against cops wholeheartedly has something to hide, end of story.

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I live in the sticks and don't have neighbors nearby.

I'm more likely to be a victim of police state overreach than I am to fall victim to a crime perpetrated by another citizen.

Sure, there are laws I don't abide by and laws that I never will follow such as 2A restrictions. If I'm on my land and I'm not infringing on anyone else's rights, I don't care what laws say.

Malcolm X / Talcum X

Now even the cool cops are turning to dicks.

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Is there an echo in here, or are you just upset that no one paid attention to your first comment. Here's your validation that no one thinks your comment is funny. Thanks for participating.

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First, I made one comment and it wasn't meant to be funny.

Speed traps are a fact of life. If you're local you know where they are. If you're not, it sucks.

To say you no longer back the blue over it is bullshite. Take the L, move on and stop whining about it.