| AnthonyW86 said:
They are payed by taxes and that's why people need to COOPERATE and not waste an officers time. And the woman clearly has an attitude, that's why the officer asked her if there was a problem. And even while he just wanted to give her a warning she assumed she was getting fined. Here in The Netherlands police are much softer, and in a lot of cases they can be. But they also can't do much against people bad mouthing and dissrespecting them. It has lead to a situation where more and more people have ZERO respect for the police and badmouth them whenever it suits them. Making their job harder. |
I do not pay the government so that I can be some kind of loyal subject to the police. If I behave like an ass towards you but are not physical in any way, that is ok by law, right? The same applies to the police. She was being rude and an ass (as was he), but that is her right as a citizen to be. The police force is only obligated to react to wrongful behaviour, they are not allowed to treat the citizens as puppets, where we should act according to their every order
The mentality that is among a lot of the policeforce in the US is what drives crimes upwards. Arresting for every little thing creates criminals and can cause a spiral where a person looses his or her job, starts to commit petty crimes and so on. The government therefore has a responsibility to have civil servants that act in a way that creates a positive atmosphere in society. In short: I would rather have citizens that disrespect the police than to have citizens that are afraid of the police.
