I agree.  One of my family members is now retired law enforcement and the stories that he has to tell are incredible (and sometimes hysterical).  And of course the job affected his wife and kids - sometimes he would get called away on the weekend and they wondered whether he&#x27;d come back.<p>But my point is that, while most cops have good intentions,  instead of punishing and removing the few assholes so that people can feel safer with cops around, we&#x27;re rewarding them, giving them heavier weapons, institutionalizing their assholery, and possibly turning good cops bad by encouraging them to do unethical&#x2F;immoral&#x2F;illegal things.  That makes people feel threatened by cops, and that makes it more dangerous for the cops.  Citizens and police should not be an adversarial us-vs-them relationship.