Indirectly related: Some police feel unsafe due to current policies.
Ten South Florida police officers have resigned from their city's SWAT unit amid concerns about safety, including their feeling that they're "restrained by the politicalization of our tactics," according to CNN affiliate WSVN.
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I dont know if these guys realize it, but politics is the main reason we have a police force.
People get together and discuss the current situation, realize they need some sort of organization to protect them, and their property, tax the public, make a police force, and assign it laws to enforce and policies to abide by. Its always been political. When the cops start doing things the citizens dont like, they (usually) get together and discuss it some more, and enact changes.
I believe the main problem with Americas police system is its so big and powerful its become a culture unto itself, and they forgot the whole point of them being around is NOT to stoke their egos and give them some place to go because they cant or wont succeed at anything else, but to protect and serve the public. They need to see themselves as public servants, not an alternative military force. Thats also how our civilians and our government should be treating them. When they stop serving the public they need to be corrected, or disbanded. And thats whats happening all across America.
Maybe we just need to clean house and start all over with something new. Something different, that might actually work.