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In reply to the discussion: Do you feel comfortable with your local cops? [View all]HolyMoley
(240 posts)I live about 2 blocks from where the The Bomber Brothers' made their last stand, and I work in Brookline.
I think the response was excessive and unnecessary, but I also have my suspicions that it was part training exercise and part justification for all the Homeland Security $$$, grants and equipment doled out to PD's the past 10-12 years.
As far as contact and personal interactions with cops around here under normal circumstances
goes; I've never had any unsettling or dicey encounters in 50+ years of living here, nor have I witnessed any use of excessive force or unwarranted arrest (that's not to say that it doesn't happen around here, I've just never seen it).
The local cops (ie city and town cops), can be pretty laid back and personable, the "Staties" OTOH, can be pretty gruff, anal and humorless.
I would not want to be on their bad side under any circumstance.