(December 5, 2015 at 8:31 pm)Spooky Wrote: Eh to each their own I suppose. Their uniform has become a sick joke.
Health inspectors are rarely charged with murder.
Police officers are also rarely charged with murder - especially in UK, where most of them don't even carry guns. There are just a lot more of them, than there are health inspectors and they have more opportunities for involvement in criminal activity, or committing a tragic mistake.
You're not really arguing for having no police at all, are you?
Police are also rarely charged with war-crimes, but that's hardly an argument, that we shouldn't have soldiers - who sometimes do commit war-crimes - to defend our countries. Policemen are not often charged with medical malpractice - that doesn't mean we shouldn't have doctors. And while we're at it - many proponents of alternative medicine hate doctors, because they are often assholes, especially when they're busy, overworked and dealing with dumb questions. Consequently - those people go to homeopaths and other quacks, who's ONLY job is to be nice to people, and they don't receive actual medical help.
Police is indispensable in modern society - for better, or worse we're stuck with them. Personally - I've never had a run-in with the police in my entire life, despite my life-style choices often putting me at odds with the law. I have no doubt many officers are assholes, but then - that's true of any profession. And people who deal with the worst elements of our society on daily basis are bound to be assholes. Of course - in US the fact that anyone they approach might have a gun on them probably doesn't help making them less insecure and trigger-happy...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
