http://ericpetersautos.com/2013/12/24/good-cops/
But there is this crucial difference between cops in the United State (singular, on purpose – in the interests of editorial accuracy) and the enforcer class in the Union of Soviet Soviet Socialist Republics, the Deutsche Demokratische Republik or its nationalsozialist predecessor: Cops in the United State have opted to abuse their fellow human beings when they could just as easily opt not to abuse them.But they choose – freely – to abuse others.
To get paid to do it. That makes them very bad indeed.
Worse, in fact, than someone like Eichmann or a Soviet or Stasi goon – since those guys literally faced the choice of doing as ordered or being thrown into a camp (or much worse) if they did not.
It was them – and their families – or someone else and his family.
A much harder choice. No American cop faces this choice.
Not yet.
They can still walk away. But very few ever do.
But there is this crucial difference between cops in the United State (singular, on purpose – in the interests of editorial accuracy) and the enforcer class in the Union of Soviet Soviet Socialist Republics, the Deutsche Demokratische Republik or its nationalsozialist predecessor: Cops in the United State have opted to abuse their fellow human beings when they could just as easily opt not to abuse them.But they choose – freely – to abuse others.
To get paid to do it. That makes them very bad indeed.
Worse, in fact, than someone like Eichmann or a Soviet or Stasi goon – since those guys literally faced the choice of doing as ordered or being thrown into a camp (or much worse) if they did not.
It was them – and their families – or someone else and his family.
A much harder choice. No American cop faces this choice.
Not yet.
They can still walk away. But very few ever do.