Lefty, I'm just going to say this. We have a system in this country. Maybe it doesnt always work, but it's all we've got. The way you fix it is by going through the process, not by blasting the cops. When is the last time a cop helped me? Yesterday.
Cops are people too, they are no more good or bad than anyone else. Are there such people as you describe? Yes, most definitely. Other cops dont like them much either. If it makes you feel better, statistically they will probably not survive more than 5 years on the job without seriously changing their attitudes.
You ask what I would do, were I a DEA agent and was ordered to arrest someone breaking the law? I'd do my job. I'd treat you with respect, and I'd let you know I'm sorry I have to do what I have to do. But I'd do what the law says I have to do.
Hopefully soon those federal laws will change.
Just something for you to think about. Why do you think cops get the attitudes some of them have? Especially ones that deal with drug enforcement issues? Have you ever seen a crackhouse? Have you ever seen a heroin addict in need of a fix? Have you ever seen the guns that usually come out of a drug house? Have you seen what a meth lab can do to a neighborhood when somebody screws up and it explodes? Have you ever had to carry what's left of someone's kids out of the mess from one of those explosions? Have you ever looked down the barrel of a gun, knowing that the person with their finger on the trigger isn't in their right mind, watching them twitch and shake? Drug enforcement isnt about busting granny with her pot for her glaucoma. Some asinine jerkwad wants to make a point somewhere, so he tells DEA agents who would much rather be anywhere else to go do a job they dont want to do. Every job has to be treated as dangerous though, or somebody doesnt come home. Try to put yourself in someone else's shoes before you condemn out of hand.
