Why do officers get upset?

[The Xl]

It wasn't an outburst. It was string a fact that to some, cops are always the bad guys until they need them. It was even validated by someone else.

Your response was closer to being viewed as an outburst.

Great, there are times people need police and their are cops that can correctly do their job. That's seriously fantastic. What's the relevance of that to the thread again?

[Tahuyaman]

Great, there are times people need police and their are cops that can correctly do their job. That's seriously fantastic. What's the relevance of that to the thread again?

I’m not sure why you are being so persistent with this? The thread is about police officers.

[DGUtley]

It's true... if you have the money, the connections, and the wherewithal to fight a corrupt cop, you might get justice. Otherwise, you're screwed.

I don't necessarily disagree with this. I think there's corrupt everything out there. I don't default to everything is corrupt -- I think generally that corruption is the exception not the rule.

[Ethereal]

I don't necessarily disagree with this. I think there's corrupt everything out there. I don't default to everything is corrupt -- I think generally that corruption is the exception not the rule.

Parts of the institution may be unobjectionable, but the institution itself - that is, the concepts on which it rests - are generally repugnant to the enlightened mind. Just as one example, the institution of law enforcement is charged with arresting and imprisoning people whose only "crime" was to violate some capricious drug law. There is simply no way to justify, according to enlightened principles, the arrest and imprisonment of someone who isn't violating someone else's rights. If there is no victim, then there is no crime. So as long as these institutions presume such an authority, there is no way to look at them as anything other than corrupt in their use of power. And as I'm sure you know, just following orders is not a sound moral or even legal justification for an agent of state.

[ODB]

....I'm sure you know, just following orders is not a sound moral or even legal justification for an agent of state.

Exactly.