A reporter declined to reveal his source. Then police showed up at his front door with guns.

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4. I grew up with the indoctrination that all cops were good. That was a lie.

In the South, in the era in which I grew up, ALL authority figures were heroes, good and not to be questioned.

That was a myth that I came to reject over time. One of the many reasons I came to reject it was due to my interactions with the police. And my getting to know several police officers personally. In my interactions with them they all, without exception, were people who believed nothing they said or did when they were on duty should ever be questioned. At no time did any single one of them ever allow for the possibility they were wrong or made a mistake in arresting a person. If they ever went to court and lost it was because the DA didn't prosecute the case properly or the judge was a liberal asshole.

They, without exception, felt the badge they wore made them better than everyone else. Not a servant to the community.

I know, I know, there are police officers out there who do not feel this way and who feel they are servants to their community. Who do wonderful things. I applaud them. Unfortunately, they are the exception in the bunch from what I have seen.