LEOs are basically municipal clerks with guns who are expected to also do violence as needed. IDK why it'd be any surprise when they start acting all capriciou

LEOs are basically municipal clerks with guns who are expected to also do violence as needed. IDK why it'd be any surprise when they start acting all capricious like municipal clerks dealing in BS paper pushing issues of no real consequence. "This guy looks sketch, no permit for him." A big part of the problem here is that they're tasked with enforcing a bunch of what amounts to petty bullshit that only exists to legitimize the state in the eyes of the people who want to see petty enforcement (taillight out, are you f-ing kidding me? A $100k/yr employee doing taillight out stops?). Like for all their ills you don't hear about "serious police" like swat teams and the like behaving quite so badly so regularly (not that they don't do plenty of bad stuff).