Do not trust the police. Ever. The police force has become something evil in its purpose...

[woo me with science]

34. Well, most police in America are not private mercenary forces yet,

but I believe you are correct that that's a planned next step. Our corrupt corporate politicians are doing everything they can now to try to build financial incentives for police to protect the corporate system of looting and corruption, and they are funding propaganda to obscure their own role and redirect outrage *solely* to police officers so that police and citizens will hate and fear each other.

Under corporate politicians, funding for police, for police militarization, and for police salaries is being weirdly exploded, while other public service departments are routinely being squeezed:

Obscenely high police salaries: Where’s the political outrage?
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/11/obscenely_high_police_salaries_wheres_the_political_outrage/

And civil asset forfeiture laws are expanding financial incentives for protecting the corruption.

Asset Forfeiture Reform is a Good Thing. Why do Democrats leave it to Rand Paul?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025288578

Another serious failing of this Administration. Asset forfeiture policies:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023418682

I think we need to make explicit what is being done by corporate politicians to CREATE the problem you describe here, because it is deliberately orchestrated. The One Percent want this hatred. They need a police force that will side with them over an exploited nation of people.

Absolutely we need accountability, and that needs to come in the form of demanding actual changes in policy. We need an end to the federal programs that militarize police, we need active demilitarization and an end to policies of escalation rather than serving and protecting. We need the national database of police violence and murders that the federal government refuses to provide. And we need relentless DOJ attention to cases of police violence until this garbage stops.

Mostly, we need to educate the nation about what is being done to our police forces, deliberately and systematically, by the same profiteering corporatists and their purchased politicians who have also instituted mass surveillance, murdered journalism, built a massive propaganda machine, and crafted exploitative communities like Ferguson.

It is all part of the corporate police state that is being systematically constructed around us:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025596182

To direct the bulk of our anger at the police *officers* themselves as a group misses the larger point and is exactly what the One Percent desire. The police are not the architects of this corruption; they are the tools. We need a massive campaign to help wake up the nation, including the police, to these divisive manipulations and the consequences to all our children and the future of this nation.