I'm a white male, near 1% income and I live in a small town about 30 miles outside a major U.S. city and I'm terrified of the police.
We've stopped holding the police accountable for their actions and it's out of control. Local government, state government, prosecutors and most of all the Unions are to blame. Yeah, the Union, I'm the son of a Union executive and Unions have lost their way.
The Union is supposed to protect the possibility of a loss of a job position, the individual from unacceptable working conditions and unjustified sanctions, but they should also be holding the individual up the standards of conduct, but that's been lost. The union should be wanting to oust a bad cop, the position won't go away, so there is no loss of a job position, but if the individual isn't living up the the standards of behavior it reflects badly on the rest of the organization, and harms their strength. I watched my father walk union members off jobs because of poor performance, and after repeated failures throw them out of the union.
The unions themselves have become a very dangerous criminal gang, they carry weapons, they control people's lives, and they basically have no accountability. The populace is afraid, the politicians are afraid, and the legal system is afraid. The police have become paramilitary goon squads with their own agenda.
A friend's uncle just retired from a southern police force, while he was working he was pulled over 10's of times for DUI and was never charged because he's a cop. Now that he's retired he's drunk all the time and is constantly getting pulled over and driven home, but he's never been charged. He's only had a few minor accidents that got covered up because the police threatened the other driver. He'll keep doing this until he actually kills someone, then it will be interesting to see if anything happens.
Until the police are held accountable the problem is going to keep getting worse. Career criminals who are victims aren't the only people at risk, we are all at risk.
