@paulo_santos I purposely didn’t respond to you earlier as I was trying to avoid this going down the rabbit hole earlier but sounds like that already happened lol.
So with that being the case…
Don’t paint us all with the same broad brush strokes you are complaining about yourself. Not all of us are scorched earth, ACAB chanting anarchists. I don’t have a problem with every single officer out there, however I have a major issue with the institution of policing in this country. Respectfully, we are not on the same side, and will never be until these issues are fixed. It’s easy to sit back and blame the media (not all of us watch the news and are able to form our own opinions) and deflect the actual issues onto anyone other than yourselves.
You say that “we won’t enforce any unconstitutional laws” but yet it happens every day. It’s easy to say you won’t, and you’ll forgive me if I don’t believe a sherif who depends on votes says something that his voters wants to hear. Yet those same sheriffs still enforce the unconstitutional laws already in the books. I call bullshit when that same sheriff enforces a state law requiring me to get a “permission slip” from him so I can simply purchase a handgun. Recent history shows us that police will enforce the laws, no matter how constitutional they are. I don’t hate cops, and it isn’t personal to any single cop. I realize there are good and bad, but there are enough bad ones to make the whole institution bad. You personally may be one of the good ones (I don’t know you). I want them to be successful and to regain the trust, but that’s obviously not the direction we are going in. I’ll wait for that action because we’ve been hearing that you’re on our side and that y’all won’t enforce those laws for quite some time now, and the actions show us otherwise.
I would encourage all law enforcement to not get immediately offended when there is discourse, and actually listen to what’s being said. We keep hearing the same excuses and the amount of people buying them is decreasing by the day.
Again, I sincerely wish you the best, and my words are not personal to you specific.