American cops are on a dangerous power trip

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8. This is SOOOOO out of hand, it's scary and ridiculous.

There have always been bad cops and they've always been enforcers of the "norms". That's why in the heydays of the Vietnam protestss, we got that they were totally against us and called them PIGS. From there, it's only gotten worse. Now, they still hate protesters and abuse them every way possible (unless it's rw marchers, those they protect). But they also go hard after minorities and young women constantly for little/no reason and for things they'd never care about if done by a white adult male. Laws need to change, body and car and jail cameras should be required everywhere and can't be turned off, this needs to be a national law - certainly can't expect the states that are the worst to do this on their own. We also need to stop giving police military munitions, they aren't at war with us, or shouldn't be in any event. We also need to really start prosecuting them asshole killers, that's all some of them are. Once being a police isn't a total license to kill and cops are in jail for this, the behavior will certainly be reduced. Another thing, they need to have much better personality tests and make over agresssiveness, arrogance, or uncalled for fear or dislike of "the other" disqualifying traits. Only with these changes could we ever begin to trust cops again. Right now I fear and loathe them.
I know they aren't all bad, but who knows what type of cop you'll get if you call?