No, I really am not defending every cop with a broad brush. I specifically said I had no opinion on cops I don't know, and have never dealt with. They don't particularly treat me royally, but our sheriff and his predecessor have been two of the people leading the charge on both constitutional carry in my state, and in fed nullification, and, as I posted above, were clear that they would not be policing the state mandates on Covid. There are other things that I will not post here, which also give me confidence in them. I have also dealt with them personally.
I live in the ruralist of rural Montana. This isn't fucking Miami, and the sheriff in my area is actually advocating, in writing and in deed, for the exact opposite of what you are saying. We don't have rap concerts here. We don't really have criminals incidents outside of the occasional bar fight, and they are not called in for those. The biggest event in the area is a once yearly rodeo. Again, this isn't Miami, and the sheriff here isn't Art Acevedo. That is my entire point, that you can only judge them based on their policies or actions, not based on some dude that is six hours away by plane in a place I don't particularly enjoy visiting.
While I don't feel like engaging in black vs white, there are also exactly zero black people in my town. I believe there are 40 black people in my county, and it has an area of 2500 or so square miles. As far as I know, the homicide rate for them is exactly zero.
Now, I have lived other places with awful police, and, as I have said, I am sure as hell not going to defend them as an industry. But I wouldn't defend the entirety of any industry either, nor would I condemn the entirety of any industry. That would be ridiculous. That is my only point. It seems, frankly, bizarre that the only possible position to take on this forum is that all cops are totally bad. Take, for example,
@pmclaine. I believe he is police. I also may have my disagreements with him, but I do not believe that he is out there looking to take away constitutional rights. I also don't believe he would run, M1 Garand in hand, into every ATF raid in his state like a one man QRF. That would be ridiculous. Have some sense. There are good and bad of everything. Cops, judges, military, bankers, machinists, whatever you are looking for, the population in that group is going to be decidedly mixed.