Take a look at this photo of immigrant kids being escorted by Federal ICE police. Their hands are bound as they are escorted within the facility. Kids. This illustrates one of the things that has gone badly wrong with our police : their obsessive focus on "safety" and "professionalism" drives them to treat everyone they interact with like dangerous criminals. It makes me embarrassed for my country and for these pathetic gun toting cowards in khaki that supposedly 'protect' it.
And by treating people like dangerous criminals you strip them of their dignity and expand the distance between them and the police. I've said this before but I was treated with much more respect and civility by rural Oklahoma sheriff's deputies in the 1970s and 80s when I had long hair and drove a cheap beater car than I am treated as a 50 something middle class white dude in suburban St. Louis. Perhaps it's just that Missouri cops are thugs and the Okies weren't but I doubt it very much. Cops used to be like everyone else, now they are skinheads with degrees in 'criminology' enforcing a legal system where so much is against the law that it is reasonable to assume that everyone is a potential felon for something. The result, the 'pros' treat all civilians as if they are likely criminals - using very polite words and trained techniques of course and the civilians, including conservative Republicans like me notice. And we warn our kids. Who we hope and pray never cross our bebadged bosses path.
It's a horrible trend that continues to get worse as our oh so vile progressive state criminalizes more and more behaviors in its perennial and perverted attempts to manipulate us into being 'better'. The lust to manipulate others is the worst of all sins embedding pride, arrogance, lust for power and sadism into a self righteous liberal or social conservative package. And it's tearing our civilization apart.
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