I don't think things have all of a sudden gotten worse...I think that there has always been a small, but incompetent part of the overall police force.
Those incompetent fools include those who think drawing their gun substitutes for doing actual police work.
Now that every single person in the world has a camera and video camera on their phone those clowns are caught redhanded being dipshits on a daily basis.
Everywhere that they have put bodycams on cops the public's opinion of their local police force has gone up, police brutality claims have gone down, and actual police work has been increased.
It's a no brainer...and speaking of no-brainer, how is it that even when cops have a dashcam, and they know they have a dashcam, the dumbest and worst amongst them act like total dipshits right in front of it?
How those guys ever made it thru the Academy is a fuckin wonder.
Why is it such a big deal now, when I think the overall and very low percentage of shitttty cops acting like dipshits hasn't changed?
Well, the aforementioned cameras play a big part...they can't lie as easily any more.
Second, we have turned most of our urban police stations into a quasi-military commandos...it should be illegal for the army to sell them fuckin military hardware...they are cops, not soldiers, and we are the public, not the enemy.
Third is what I think is the most important factor why we trust our police forces less and less each day...in spite of the fact that it is a very, very small percentage of them who are assclowns, the second the assclown acts like an assclown the entire force circles the wagons around them, thereby becoming assclowns themselves.
If cops don't like being perceived as the enemy of the public instead of the servants of the public, then they should be the most anxious to get rid of shittty cops, not the most anxious to throw up a hundred foot tall blue line and get behind it with the very jackasses that are making them look bad.
Fish on...
Todd
_________________________

Team Flying Super Ditch Pickle