At some point governments will have to address the elephant in the room.
Across much of the globe, modern police forces have been empowered and emboldened to such a degree that many departments, and their members, feel institutionally above the law.
In no other occupation, that I can think of, can so many rules and directives be flouted without losing ones job, as is the case with modern police.
Its frankly insulting to see, again and again, that people we (civilians) fund the salaries of, see us as beneath them - as evidenced by how we are held to the letter of ordinances and laws by them, while they break ordinances and laws with seemingly wanton abandon.
This is unlikely to change until police are held to the exact same legal and prosecutorial rigors as those they police.
Across much of the globe, modern police forces have been empowered and emboldened to such a degree that many departments, and their members, feel institutionally above the law.
In no other occupation, that I can think of, can so many rules and directives be flouted without losing ones job, as is the case with modern police.
Its frankly insulting to see, again and again, that people we (civilians) fund the salaries of, see us as beneath them - as evidenced by how we are held to the letter of ordinances and laws by them, while they break ordinances and laws with seemingly wanton abandon.
This is unlikely to change until police are held to the exact same legal and prosecutorial rigors as those they police.