And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
-- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, "The Gulag Archipelago"
Nio
Say what you will but when you have seen corruption and lawbreaking by LEO'S right in front of your face like I have it makes you understand just how common it is and truly makes one greatful for the good honest officers out there who have to put up with the crap and hatred that is brought about by other officers who could give two loads of crap for the law and the people they are sworn to protect (Like the Cali officers in question for instance and we don't have to guess why they chose CALI officers to do this do we??)This woman was in HER HOME BOTHERING NO ONE AND BREAKING NO LAWS!!! SHE HAD FOOD AND WATER AND WANTED NO HELP!!!! I fail to see how anyone cannot understand these simple facts. My god what happened to FREEDOM!! This is AMERICA FOR GODS SAKE!!
All righty then.