his car, he's drunk and just wants to go to sleep. He says he can walk to his sister's house to sleep it off. And he runs off while we try to to arrest him, because he is drunk and just wants to sleep it off. What's he going to do? Fall asleep again? I know, let's shoot him in the back. We could have just chilled here at the Wendy's and had some coffee. Their chili is pretty good.

Nope.

Let's shoot him in the back.

If this was a white guy, in a suit and tie, who had more than the three martini lunch, decided it was better to stop driving, they'd have let him walk to his sister's place. Might have given him a ride there. Our police forces are infiltrated with assholes.

Last year, in this bastion of liberalness, our police drew guns on a black man cleaning litter in front of his own apartment building. They said his trash pick up tool was a weapon.

Seriously.

This has got to stop. Police have become convinced that they are part of the military. They are not. Observe how they refer to "civilians," as if they are warriors.

Protect and serve. That's the motto, right? Was this man protected? Was he served? Just walk the guy to his sister's and problem solved. No paperwork. Be fucking human.

Nope. Need the collar.

A couple of years ago, some of our city's finest, killed an 800 pound bull elk in a nearby neighborhood. The elk was pretty mellow, really, the residents loved it, gave it a name, just pretty much left it alone. But these guys decided to kill it. Why? Because one of them was a taxidermist and elk hunter. 800 lbs. of elk meat is worth some coin, and a mounted trophy is worth a lot more. Poaching is illegal. But they're cops. They just write a report that the elk was wounded and needed to be put down. Fail to file a report at all, really, until people complained.

But they were acting like they owned the place, they were in charge, this was their town. Even though they didn't even live here. It's that sense of entitlement that pisses me off. Their perceived lordship falls mostly on minorities. I'm a lily white northern European and I've had encounters with asshole cops. I try to imagine what it is like for minorities and when I do I get really pissed off.