[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

[QUOTE="Arsephixiation"]

The bottom line is, long gone is the feeling of the Police as there to "protect and serve". Now days they take on a more militant presence. They are further distancing themselves from the average citizen.

ROFLCOPTER603

exactly.

when I was a kid, a cop seemed more like a part of the community, someone you could approach and talk to like anyone else.

Now...I dont know if I would ever approach a cop for anything.

Maybe it has somethign to do with me being the age of going to prison vs the age of being a naive kid, but still, when I see a cop, I get scared, not comforted.

If you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't have to worry...

...anything wrong by who's/what standards?

[QUOTE="Arsephixiation"]

The bottom line is, long gone is the feeling of the Police as there to "protect and serve". Now days they take on a more militant presence. They are further distancing themselves from the average citizen.

mrbojangles25

exactly.

when I was a kid, a cop seemed more like a part of the community, someone you could approach and talk to like anyone else.

Now...I dont know if I would ever approach a cop for anything.

Maybe it has somethign to do with me being the age of going to prison vs the age of being a naive kid, but still, when I see a cop, I get scared, not comforted.

It is not you (or me), it is the way that things are going. The alienation of draconian institutionalized law enforcement. The militarization of law enforcement.

The bottom line is, long gone is the feeling of the Police as there to "protect and serve". Now days they take on a more militant presence. They are further distancing themselves from the average citizen.

[QUOTE="Arsephixiation"]

[QUOTE="turtlethetaffer"]

Do you really have that problem where you live?

turtlethetaffer

Yes, I have witnessed it on many occasion.

Like with the multiple squad cars and everything? That seems a bit exagerrated depending on where you live.

It all depends on the workload the local "force" has to deal with, I am sure. Also the size of the "force".

[QUOTE="Arsephixiation"]

[QUOTE="turtlethetaffer"]

Um what? Sorry, I've never had that problem.

turtlethetaffer

Lucky you.

Do you really have that problem where you live?

Yes, I have witnessed it on many occasion.

[QUOTE="Arsephixiation"]

Remember the last time you tried to hang out at your favorite local meet? Nowdays you try to do that, and it is broken up by riot police, or at least 5 or 6 squad cars. A Militant Police State in action. Big F***er is watching you. Yet a further example of the polarization of Society...

turtlethetaffer

Um what? Sorry, I've never had that problem.

Lucky you.

Remember the last time you tried to hang out at your favorite local meet? Nowdays you try to do that, and it is broken up by riot police, or at least 5 or 6 squad cars. A Militant Police State in action. Big F***er is watching you. Yet a further example of the polarization of Society...

Just cue up what you want to listen to locally. What are you trying to prove? Scrobble on Last.fm. Get over it, you attention junkie.

Raspberry Ripple Awards

This is in, and of itself, distasteful.

Political correctness gone awry.

Let's all feel sorry for ourselves.

Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Bush Jnr. to name a few. All subject to megalomaniac fantasies of living up to imaginary legacies which never existed.