Heh, we have a retired cop living in our neighborhood. A few months back, he was heaping verbal abuse on a neighbor (who happens to be black; retired Army). The popo got called when the guy went back to his house and started shooting blanks (yeah, right) into the ground in his back yard. SWAT even got called out. Not a peep in the local papers.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.