I know it's been said by a lot of people, a lot of times, but not enough. I don't know what it's gotta take for cops to stop murdering and terrorizing people, but god damn. It's 2014. One of my best friends and his dog were murdered by a cop in 2006 when a SWAT team fired a sub-machine gun through the front door as he went to answer it, and they had the wrong person. Just gunned him down, "lost" the front door in the evidence locker, the coroner changed his autopsy report twice, and the cop got away with it...obviously.
It's crazy. I would never call the cops unless I had no other choice. I bet if I called them because someone broke into my house, that they'd find a way to shoot or arrest me. I don't feel safe around them, ever, and I don't feel like they're there to protect or serve me.
I could be wrong, but I think most people share this idea. I used to think it was only a few bad apples, and maybe I'm just getting cynical, but I swear the ONLY people I hear defending the police at this point are actual police, their family members, and maybe their close friends.