RIP: To Serve and Protect
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Commenter Andrew at Radley’s place, notes, of cops:
They’ve pretty much dropped any pretense of being anything but bullies, thugs and an army of occupation.
Take a long look at that Denver PD commemorative t-shirt. That’s a mark of people who crave bullying, intimidation, control, and wielding arbitrary force. It’s telling that every cop involved in the DNC received one “free”, yet there is demand for 2000 more.
The pretense “to serve and protect” is long dead. The new premise of police conduct is this: their presumptive authority must be respected at all costs.