Eighth Grader Executed by Cop

[Welsh cake]

Frankly, that's always the inherent problem with cops. When they say "us versus them" they mean "cops versus anyone else." We have given the cops way too much power in this country. I often think it attracts the wrong element to the job.

This is explained well in social psychology. Give a jobless and ordinarily mild-mannered man off the street a symbol of authority, a uniform to make him stand out and easily recognisable allegiance to a group, make laws that enable him to enforce their authority onto the public, give him a gun to defend himself, a badge to command respect, sit back, and watch just how fast he will turn into a complete arsehole and abuse his civic duty.

This mentality is not limited to law-enforcement, people in general always want the privileges that come with power and status, never the vices of responsibility and being held accountable for one's own actions or inactions.