Police depts, not police officers are the real problem

The population and the media are having a heyday complaining about rogue officers who are being jackass jack booted thugs.

Those police officers exist.  However, statistically speaking, they are a tiny minority of all police officers in general.

Most police officers believe themselves to be and are generally making an effort to be good people doing a necessary job, and they are.

Police departments on the other hand exist primarily for the purpose of protecting a city or town's property and financial interests.  After that, protecting residents and enforcing laws is in their purpose.

How do we know this to be true?  For decades, police departments have encouraged the public to be compliant victims.  To avoid confrontation and give the criminals what they demand and count on the police department to follow up and apprehend the criminals.

This does not work.  It embolden criminals because they know that most people will not defend themselves.

Far too many police departments not only encourage victim compliance, but actively oppose open and concealed carry licences.

Again, looking at the statistics of police departments across the nation, they know that they cannot be in a position to deter or early intervene in the vast majority of violent crimes.

They would have to have officers in the area at the time of each crime to prevent or interrupt it.  Given officer to resident population ratios, this is statistically impossible and they know it.

Police departments are authoritarian organizations by nature and with the exception of locally elected law enforcement such as county sheriffs, they are "hired guns" by the city.  Most if not all answer directly to the Mayor's office.

Remember,  your average Joe police officer is there with good intentions often thinking of themself as a "good guy".  However.  They are hired hands.  They must follow the directions they are given and enforce laws on the books or risk being fired themselves.

Morality is not their job.  Just because something is legal or illegal does not necessarily "right" or "wrong".  You cannot legislate morality and that is a cold, hard fact of life.  That means you cannot "enforce" morality either.  You can only enforce laws.

So, we have a few jackasses that are making other officers look bad, a 24 hour cycle news media that pushes the negative stuff 100 to 1 over "feel good" stories, police departments that put police officers in positions they simply should not be in, and those same police departments that actively encourage residents to be compliant victims and largely oppose self defense.

Now you know how we arrive at a place where addled brained whack jobs who probably should be on medication or locked up are getting the confidence to brazenly attack, en masse, the most un-defended places in our communities.

Don't attack individual officers (unless they are one of the few jackasses that abusing their position).  Demand civilian oversight of local police departments and anything else that minimizes the ability of police departments to create and maintain authoritarian regimes.