You think that monitoring armed employees of the state to identify abuses using technology as threatening as a camera is... equivalent to right-wing anarchy? You seriously think that it will be impossible to recruit officers if they might have people monitor their on the job behavior and call them out for doing things that are illegal. The military seems to do alright...
I do not condone violence and at the moment the police seem to be doing most of it. There needs to be a check on that.
> I do not condone violence and at the moment the police seem to be doing most of it. There needs to be a check on that.
I guess your opinion then fully depends on where the MSM camera are pointed toward, because you've got to be awfully blind if you think ONLY the police has been violent.
You heard: "you think ONLY the police has been violent"
I said: "I do not condone violence"
You seem to heave heard: "I do not condone violence [and don't think anyone except for police has used it]."
Try harder.
I am aware that others are violent, but they're also not pepper spraying people milling around with their kids or black bagging people on the street.
Someone who claims to have the most dangerous job in America getting nervous about being identified while pepper spraying protestors has got an uphill battle convincing me that they're the victim. Armed agents of the state also clearly have to have a role in a country with as many guns as ours.
They should conduct themselves professionally enough that they aren't pepper spraying people sitting in the street and aiming rubber bullets at their heads. Start there. If you are captured on film pepper spraying some 20 year old kid sitting on the street in the face for a solid twenty seconds? No, you are absolutely not qualified to carry a firearm, much less "protect the peace".
Activists are going to decide they don't like them and start stalking them as well.