For nearly 200 years the Metropolitan Police have known a better way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles 1 To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment. 2 To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval... 3 To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws. 4 To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives. 5 To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, ... 6 To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, ... 7 To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. 8 To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty. 9 To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.
As a conservative and former cop. A vast majority are conservative. And Republicans syport all cops, except the bad ones. The left are the ones who want to defund police e and riots and attack them.
@Still-alive Were you alive during the Summer of Love when nut job liberals threw actual man-made bombs at cops, while Democrat politicians either encouraged them or did not stop them. I'm from NYC; I witnessed the Mayhem.
They use their ‘support’ for cops as a cudgel to beat other people with. But the second a cop dared go against them notice how quickly they become anti-cop
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Why would they care about all cops? They care about good cops, not bad ones. I don't see the issue.
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