Writes Steve from Orange County, CA:

The police-statization of America is terrible, especially in conservative areas such as this one, where the public is blindly pro-law-enforcement.I saw Will’s great piece about the San Diego jury last week. On the same day, an off-duty cop shot a Marine and his brother in the Angel Stadium parking lot. Frankly, many of the shooting stories I read in the paper involve off-duty police and military, who seem to use violence as a first resort.

Unfortunately, juries here always side with the cops. We had a case where a cop stalked a stripper at a nightclub, followed her, pulled her over and got a sexual favor in exchange for not taking her to jail for some questionable charge. The jury agreed with the cop that these were consensual sex acts!

The police union chief always tells me that his guys put their lives on the line. In truth, we put our lives on the line being around his members, given that they can beat or kill us with no consequence.