I've seen "racist cops" and "authoritarian cop" compilations and videos and 99% of the time it's standard police behavior.

Sometimes the videos will be cops dealing with one of those sovereign citizen types who hasn't committed a crime but is an extremely obnoxious smart-alec. The comments praise the guy as "standing up to the authoritarian pigs" who happened to be put off by his attitude, but if it were any other profession, nurses, restaurant workers, etc they'd tear the guy to shreds for the same intentional disagreeable-ness and needless oppositional attitude.

Those comments would say "nurses, waiters, plumbers etc have it hard enough without this guy making their day worse.

Well that applies to police too. They deal all day with people lying, giving attitude etc.

If you're innocent and get pulled over just be base level of civil and things will go easy instead of taking a highly obnoxious attitude.

Like I said Ive seen plenty of "look at these authoritarian cops" videos and for every 1 where it's like "yep that's a clear cut case of douchebags on a power trip" there's a hundred where the cops attitude would be totally different if the subject innocent or not didn't jump out the gate acting foolish.

Now I hate when cops enforce bullcrap like COVID mandates and other unconstitutional things.

But that's an issue of most people are a mix of not brave, and not critical thinkers and that problem is universal, not exclusive to police.

I've seen "racist cops" and "authoritarian cop" compilations and videos and 99% of the time it's standard police behavior.

Sometimes the videos will be cops dealing with one of those sovereign citizen types who hasn't committed a crime but is an extremely obnoxious smart-alec. The comments praise the guy as "standing up to the authoritarian pigs" who happened to be put off by his attitude, but if it were any other profession, nurses, restaurant workers, etc they'd tear the guy to shreds for the same intentional disagreeable-ness and needless oppositional attitude.

Those comments would say "nurses, waiters, plumbers etc have it hard enough without this guy making their day worse.

Well that applies to police too. They deal all day with people lying, giving attitude etc.

If you're innocent and get pulled over just be base level of civil and things will go easy instead of taking a highly obnoxious attitude.

Like I said Ive seen plenty of "look at these authoritarian cops" videos and for every 1 where it's like "yep that's a clear cut case of douchebags on a power trip" there's a hundred where the cops attitude would be totally different if the subject innocent or not jump out the gate acting foolish.

Now I hate when cops enforce bullcrap like COVID mandates and other unconstitutional things.

But that's an issue of most people are a mix of not brave, and not critical thinkers and that problem is universal, not exclusive to police.