I think the answer for your question lays in the fact that WA has more police per capita than any other state, and OR is close behind.

Hundreds of millions of dollars are wasted every year to support these paramilitary organizations (not to mention all of the federal grants they receive to fight "the war on drugs" and the "war on terror"), and to what effect? They don't stop crime and they kill innocent people.

The nicest a cop will ever be to someone is when they're writing them a ticket for several hundred dollars.