What people are really fed up with, is the disparity of treatment, or application of the law, when one of their own screws up or is breaking the law. And I hope that the backlash and publicity gets so big, that something has to be done about it.
A for example:
Same scenario. *I* am downtown in a bar, drunk out of my goard, with a pistol underneath my shirt. I get a little rowdy and someone calls the cops. First of all:
Would they offer to take me home, instead of to jail?
Would they not even search me, to know if I had a pistol or not?
If on the way home, I pulled it out and shot up the police car, would I only be charged with 'discharging a firearm within the city limits"?
Would I not be serving any jail time, or the most I would have to be worried about is losing my job?
I think the answer to ALL of those questions would be "not a chance in hell".
They are hired and trained by the people, the taxpayers, to serve and protect the public. That should demand an even tighter scrutiny among their own ranks, when one of them goes off the deep end, or breaks the law.
But now, it's just the opposite. They will falsify reports and documents, lose video, plant evidence, conspire to lie as to what took place, ANYTHING they can do, legal or illegal, moral or immoral, to save one of their own.
Since video recording public servants has become a pastime, for so many folks, now certain states are trying to use old wiretapping laws to prevent that from happening. When in reality, they should WELCOME the recordings. It could show they were justified in their actions, if they were.
The laws do not equally apply to certain professions or people. That's what people are getting irked about, and I think they should get irked to the Nth degree until it changes.
