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> most people don't consider the police an armed gang Actually a significant portion of the population DO consider the police an armed gang, and have done so f
by glesica 13y ago
> most people don't consider the police an armed gang
Actually a significant portion of the population DO consider the police an armed gang, and have done so for quite some time. For starters, poor people in urban areas. The difference is that now wealthier people are starting to be treated the same way poor people have been treated all along.
- incision 13y agoVery true. Growing up I was far more scared of the police than anyone else in what was not a very nice area. This wasn't cultural conditioning either. It was the experience of being routinely stopped, questioned, accused, intimidated and occasionally humiliated by being made to partially disrobe. It makes for a terrible feeling of powerlessness when someone else can do whatever they want to you at any time and any effort to avoid much less rebuke the situation will only make it worse. At least one friend of mine from that time is now a police officer. His experience has only confirmed the prevalence of this ugly "at war" mentality in in law enforcement.
- smtddr 13y agoThat is exactly what I came here to say. Plenty of people, like me, don't trust the police. In America, probably other countries too, a problem is only recognized as a problem when it affects the wealthy or privileged.