Very interesting. I assumed that police always held privileged status in US but this could be simply because they are always portrayed like that in movies, even historical ones. The PR is definitely there. In pretty much every movie caps break the laws and ignore rights of everyone and it’s shown as something necessary and even ‘cool’. Bad guys don’t deserve rights…
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 13 hours ago
This is one of the reasons I refused to watch “24”. I wasn’t going to support a show whose entire premise was “we ignore due process because we’re too incompetent to stop the criminals sooner.”