Are the police our friends?

Piece of advice:  If the police are not actively stopping a violent or property crime do not assume that they're on your side.

The resisting-arrest conviction last week of Felicia Gibson has left a lot of people wondering. Can a person be charged with resisting arrest while observing a traffic stop from his or her own front porch?

Salisbury Police Officer Mark Hunter thought so, and last week District Court Judge Beth Dixon agreed. Because Gibson did not at first comply when the officer told her and others to go inside, the judge found Gibson guilty of resisting, delaying or obstructing an officer.

Gibson was not the only bystander watching the action on the street. She was the only one holding up a cell-phone video camera. But court testimony never indicated that Hunter told her to stop the camera; he just told her to go inside.

In all other cases you should assume that these career bureaucrats are on their own side.

They're out of control and we're out of money.  Seems like we could find a solution to this problem, no?