hah I didn't realize that! Though I can see why that makes sense. I edited the above to strikeout liable and changed it to "berated in the media"

What, exactly, are police for?

Feeding the municipal/county/state coffers with the proceeds of civil forfeiture?

And putting teenagers in cuffs for small baggies of weed.

Maintaining the social and economic status quo by any means necessary, legal or otherwise.

There's a disruption? They show up and un-disrupt it.

To protect capital.

That thought isn't exactly comforting if you think about it.

We just saw this with the recent court case decision from the cop that did nothing at the Parkland shooting.

The cops at Parkland couldn't even establish a proper perimeter around the crime scene. After the killer was done running amok he wandered off, got himself a slurpee out of Subway and then had breakfast at McDonalds. They did not even try and identify who was responsible for the shooting.

Oh, and even after the shooter had been taken into custody the sheriff still denied access to the scene to emergency medical personnel.

There can't be an excuse for that degree of malicious incompetence but the courts gave them one anyway.

Uvalde shooting comes to mind.