Shot in her own home!

[Athene]

  Brian accusing someone else of delusional paranoia wins the Internet today.

FFS - Athene has more insight into being black in America than most on this board.  Athene being a rational and consistent member of this board, I tend to lean toward the attitude that she knows what she's talking about.

Tbh, much of my opinion on police culture in general has been informed through the lens of working with law enforcement as an EMS worker--as I alluded to in my earlier post. The pervasive lack of integrity and unwillingness to self-police as a norm was made very apparent to me. 
Thus, I've come to have little to no respect for law enforcement as a system. The most I can muster is to remain neutral in my opinion of individual officers until such time that I have enough information to determine whether they're actually decent human beings or not. I don't automatically assume them to be "good" people.

There's no good reason to--Not when "Getting Home" and "Protecting Our Own" appears to be the premier objective among so many officers as opposed to "Protect and Serve". That's a tremendously dangerous, shitty outlook for people who have other folk's lives and safety in their hands.

I can't respect that.