The civil war poll question, was based on your votes, don't give me crap for it.
Also, I have known to to many police who have abused their power as I've delt with various lawyers on this issue. In one case I have seen police threaten to take away their children if they do not allow police to confiscate their guns. Nappen said warrant or no guns. When they could not get the warrant they threatened the child confiscation to the lawyer. Stupid move. A quick call to the county prosecuter ended this police abuse.
There have been numerious police stops in LA, MA, and NJ where police stop cars purely because of out of state plates, asking about guns. Thank god for random video tapeing by citizens to prosecute these cops.
In Penn. 2 cops pulled over a couple in a car after they left their house and then forced them not to search the car, but their house. Who would believe that story? The jury in the federal civil rights trial, thank god for the guy across the street with the video camera.
In New Jersey the state police will be watched for the next 3 years for making racially based traffic stops. This happened after the feds found that such abuses where happening.
The list of police abuses are endless, I could go on and on. For myself and the people I work and am friends with, we are honest and hard working. But we do not trust the police, we trust ourselves.
Lastly, I ran a poll 6 weeks ago. The question are Police America's abusers or protectors. The results 52% abusers, 48% protectors. That's your votes folks. Obvious there is not that much love for the police out there.
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