Honest question, if I get into a car accident, I'm pretty sure that I need a police report for my insurance company. How am I able to make a claim without a police report?
Other than that, I agree pretty much with everything else.
Well, first let me say I'm not lashing out at you, but......Ask your insurance company or "we the people". Half the accidents police work occur on private property, no law was broken and the police have no real business being involved, but the insurance companies have lobbied successfully to have police intervention because it is what "we the people" want. Even accidents on the public roads are almost 100% of the time just that "accidents" and nobody willfully intended to do any damage. In other words, they had no intent to commit a crime but police are involved because it's what people and their insurance companies demand. They even demand that a citation be written to the at fault party because it's "too hard" to settle insurance claims otherwise. I am ready for the sign waving, shit talking folks to get what they want, a nation full of people who handle their minor (misdemeanor) and most of their major (felony) rule of law issues on their own and live or die with the criminal/civil consequences. The silent majority can do just what they do now...nothing...and suck it up until they can't stand it anymore then demand change again with the realization that there will always be a very small amount of bad actors doing very bad things as long as humans are involved on both sides of the rule of law equation.
Don't get me wrong, there are some things really bad in policing in America as a whole that need to be addressed and changed, but I'm tired of the woke hyperbole, like 10% of the police are bad. 10%? There are 700,000 cops in America. The largest majority are in positions that regularly make contact with the public every day. Conservatively 80%, so 560,000 in America conservatively making 2,000,000 or so contacts with the public daily. If the day George Floyd was killed a 1000 other officers had been filmed doing the same thing, unlawfully killing a man by knee choking him to death, it would have amounted less than 2/10 of 1 percent of the 560,000 LEO nation wide and less than .05/10 of 1 percent of the contacts during that 24 hour period. Bad actors? YES! 10% absolute bullshit. And I have read post estimating the bad actor pool to be anywhere from 50-90%. Laughable.
Police don't police the bad actors so ALL cops are bastards, another screech from the woke crowd. How in the hell am I supposed to stop a Minneapolis, Atlanta, fill in the blank cop from doing evil? The department I work for hasn't had a cop killed by gunfire since 1972, a cop shot by a citizen since 2001 and the last time a citizen was shot (and killed) was 15 years ago. We have had countless murderers, robbers, rapist arrested since then. I disarmed one myself armed with a SKS with a quick butt stroke to the jaw when we had a meeting engagement in a dark hallway. My department fired two officers in the past 3 years for using a choke hold on suspects, one on duty, one off duty....with no complaint from the suspect or the public....because like most departments in the SE choke holds are forbidden by SOP unless you are actually trying to kill a man. In the course of 24 years I have been in countless situations where I could have used deadly force on a suspect but didn't. I have shot one man in that time, he was 10 yards away in the summer north GA mountain woods. Had already shot 4 people, one a very good friend of mine. He was at the moment trying his best to kill me with a .357. I didn't want to shoot him, I didn't like shooting him. I'm not proud or happy or satisfied that I shot him. I'm content to be alive, but that's about it......But I'm just one of the PIGS because of very small percentage of rogue cops doing vile, evil, unlawful crap nation wide, mostly in liberal strongholds where unions reign, and I can't somehow find a way to make it stop.
I'm tired....I'm also on vacation so I'm done with the internet today. I apologize to you right here and now for dumping this response on you. I know it's not what you asked for. I'm sorry about that, I truly am.