Disarm American Cops

Unarmed Bobbies:  They are unarmed in England. Why not here? 

Okay, I know it's an un American thing to suggest, but really, we should disarm police here in America.

Yes, that would be a radical thing to do, and no this does not mean all police would be unarmed, but it does mean the guys on the beat would be unarmed. They could, of course call for help from armed police.

A compromise might be to leave the armed cop in the car and send an unarmed guy out to talk to the motorist. But that might not accomplish much; we see videos all the time now, of the first cop talking more or less civilly and a second or third responder leaping out of his car, gun blazing.

This would, over time, likely result in a different sort of person joining the police force, because, it must be admitted, if we are being honest, in general, cops become cops because they get to have guns and some if not most of them are people who like to beat people up without having to worry about winding up in jail themselves. They are licensed sadists.

I'm just saying.

This is the way many of my Black countrymen see cops and I see no evidence they are wrong, as I encounter cops in the emergency rooms, roaming about the halls of hospitals or as I walk by them on the street or see them along the roadways.

Police are simply no longer my friends.  Police are thugs.  They tend to be failed students, men (mostly men) who had no better options in life financially, men who have a certain explosiveness and deep seated resentment. 

We need a different police force in most cities, and maybe in most smaller towns, although small town police tend to live closer to those they police and may be less likely to be thugs.

But, one way or another, we need a revolution in policing in this country, at least in the big cities and bigger suburbs. 

Taking away their guns might be a good start.