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hedgehog

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2. I think the police officers do view themselves as seperate from the public they serve,

Reply to TeddyR (Reply #1)

Sat Aug 29, 2015, 06:12 PM

Aug 2015

even if that public is white and presumably law abiding. Look at the extreme response when an officer is murdered relative to what happens when a member of the public is murdered. Maybe not so much an us versus them, but definitely an insider outsider relationship.

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Some odds and ends inspired by the shooting of the officer in Texas..... [View all] hedgehog Aug 2015 OP

Well TeddyR Aug 2015 #1

I think the police officers do view themselves as seperate from the public they serve, hedgehog Aug 2015 #2

It's a brotherhood. Or, hopefully, a siblinghood Syzygy321 Aug 2015 #3