We did not establish our country and states for the police, but police don't get it.
Human rights activists and civil liberties workers do not populate local, state and federal police, a force that operates with gang precepts and monarchical bearing.
State and federal constitutional liberties do not animate the conduct of the collection of thugs, hate-mongers and broad anti-social psychology that comprise police.
And police do not look upon criticism by citizens with only suspicion, but outright hostility as exemplified in the musing of police killing the civil rights worker, Shaun King, actually plotting King's assassination on a secret Facebook site, (Medium, L.A. Times).
The George Floyd torture and killing is instructive to understanding how the police work. Black Lives Matter has been sounding the alarm for years, but the police come down against the proposition that lives matter.
Just as revealing is the Broken Windows theory of policing, the license to terrorize, harass, imprison and destroy.
After-all, police are the 'man,' royalty that is free to harm and kill the citizenry. So, police bullied and terrorized the citizens, fining $100s, resulting in mandatory sentencing for repeat "offenders," policy that a few Broken Windows advocates felt would deter felonies.
How about a practice of protecting civil liberties and human rights for the people and a theory of broken liberties policing?
Police incursions into the liberties of people, small and mean-spirited, should be stopped to create a culture of respect for human rights, a wall against the type of people who become police.
This would help prevent the George Floyd torture and killing, and eliminate the killer psychology of police in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Louisville, Atlanta, and the whole country.
Cops encountering citizens should be aware they are talking to free human beings, who should be given a wide berth by those who would destroy them.
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