What an old fashioned idea: the beat cop. A cop that walks around your neighborhood, knows your name and the names of your kids and is more worried about keeping you safe than trying to find an excuse to search your car.
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I liked those days when you actually believed the cops were there to help. Nowadays, it is more about meeting their "quotos", too political, too whatever. But yes, as a child, I recall cops being the good guys. Is this evolution? Bringing out the "control"? Scarey dude. Peace to you & yours!
When I was 8 I may have lived in one of the last great American small towns where the kids ran free until supper timem everybody left their doors unlocked, and the local cops knew us and we knew them.
A couple of days ago I was going to my shop in Smoketown (a historically black and very poor part of Louisville) and got pulled over by a pair of cops in the alley behind my house. They approached with their hands on their guns, the whole nine yards. I managed not to get into it with them but when one said to his partner, "I've never seen this guy before, have you?" I snapped, "I've never seen either of you before either so I guess we're even on that score." Pulled over for being white in the projects. What the fuck is wrong with this country?
That's really sad. I can relate to being little (8), and all was well in the world. I still have that same fantasy. I leave my house unlocked (at times accidentally). I leave my car doors unlocked (accidentally). Nothing bad happened. Perhaps it is a matter of perception.