I stand by my statement. your use of "presumably, many encounters," is not warranted. You have no idea where I'm from, if you did you would see the community as a whole agrees. Look up Rio Grande Valley police. They know very little about the law, and have no respect for our constitution. A quick trip to youtube will show MANY officers, change their GOD like statues when they see the camera. I do not mean to say ALL police officers, however the ones that I have come across in my 29 years of life have fit right in to my earlier statement. I also HAD a friend who was a police officer, he would tell me all these stories of how he would get people to give up their rights, and circumvent the constitution..
heres an interesting video, Fast forward to 14:20, I thought it was funny, it maybe overboard but it speaks volumes.
Or how about this guy... chasing down those bad guys!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXI7170ahNI
Or this guy, out with his family when he comes across this nightmare of a cop
Sill not convinced? Hows about this winner...
has anyone in those videos come across as violent criminals?
I was personally tasered by a group of cops, because I was screaming in pain, waking up from neck surgery, the doctor took off, I was in unbelievable pain, and really high from the anesthesia, the nurse called the police! they got there and went straight for the taser.. didn't occur to anyone of those elite officers to ask what was happening... No, I did not sue, I let it go...