Reply #103: No, but. . . [View All]

[jeremyfive]

I feel for police officers because the pressures are enormous. Beyond the obvious danger inherent in the job, they are also at the mercy of a fat and unregulated court system that is unfair and unforgiving, while demanding unrealistic amounts time and often unfair scrutiny.

That said, there is way too much abuse in our police system. Also, there is a strange set of values. Let's first stop all the murders and physical assaults and home break-ins, then we can move on to the consensual sexual infractions. Officers seem to go right for the consensual sex matters and marijuana busts and public displays of affection and loitering, while letting real crime go unchecked. In my city, you never see police officers except late at night when they are rounding up the drunk drivers. (And you do see much street crime here.)

Perhaps the selective enforcement of law is related to those empowered, financially and otherwise, to influence the system. But the enforcement of the law seems w-a-a-a-a-y too slanted in the direction of encroachment on individual liberties, while ignoring the heinous mortal crimes that occur way too frequently in our country.

And encroachment on individual liberties only creates more stress in a society that is already overwhelmed by stress. Then those stressed out individuals then find themselves confronting the murderers and home intruders who were never rounded up in the first place.

The individual officer's fault? Maybe not. The system's fault? Definitely.