Hatred of Cops and Support of Drug Legalization

[True Blue Door]

75. I support police who are intelligent, decent, responsible, and professional.

If those four criteria are too much to demand of a cop, then they have no business being a cop - or at least no business interacting with the public: If you can't fire someone who regularly violates that standard, put them on a desk in a poorly-lit basement, instead of doing that to whistleblowers who dare to enforce the law on fellow officers.

Cops tend to oppose drug legalization because in their experience drugs make people's behavior less predictable, which makes their job more complicated. I don't agree that that's a legitimate reason to destroy lives, throw millions of people in prison, cause untold numbers of murders and international chaos, and waste billions of dollars every year, but I see phenomenologically why police have a problem with the idea.

And people who support drug legalization are more wary of the police because they're aware that police are the instrument of oppression through which Order is treated as more important than freedom or even common decency. Police perhaps are unfairly blamed for the draconian sentences that follow their arrests, and are more fairly blamed for the radically militarized tactics they adopt in drug cases in response to the very small number of instances where truly dangerous individuals or groups are involved.