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Originally Posted by john2
Since when do we have to praise and fall all over ourselves, thanking people for doing their job? I'm sure the person who got their purse back thanked the officer. As far as the negative comments on police, totally justified. They carry guns and have great power over all us "civilians". The police have become increasingly militarized and abusive of their power. They no longer serve and protect, not "peace" officers but enforcement officers who are looking at the bottom line. Tickets = money
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As the initiator of this thread I am pointing out that I did not "fall all over" myself thanking the police for doing their job. I commented on the imaginative approach of the Marion County Sheriff's Office in using a Facebook page for identifying criminal suspects.
On the other hand, the resentful tone of your negative stereotype of police officers betrays both a possible failure to understand the police role in our society and in all likelihood that you have been the recipient of a traffic ticket which you were appropriately issued.
We live in a society of government ruled by laws. There are many levels to those laws; those who pass them, those who make decisions regarding the guilt or innocence of those charged with violating them, and those who most directly deal with those charged with violations - police officers. They are the primary interface between our government and its citizens.
People who break laws, even traffic laws, are usually resentful of the police officers who observe the violations and apprehend the violators. I suspect that you are in that category.
You remind me of the man who once complained to me about police abuse because he was ticketed for running a stop sign. After his lengthy harangue, which I listened to patiently, he ended up by saying, "I'll admit I didn't get out and kick all four tires at the stop sign....."