RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 07/18/18> A little history goes a long way in explaining… I’ll explain.
I'm not sure how I missed this post - I've been away a lot. That slave patrol history is chilling. Nothing good can come of that.
I've always found our police forces in the UK to be very different from area to area. I have nothing bad to say about my local police force. I've always found them to be polite, respectful and helpful. I haven't always found that to be the case in other areas, and recently all the police forces in Scotland have been banded into one organisation called Police Scotland. They've also been issued with guns.
This has caused a lot of controversy, and I suppose my point is that it's so important for people to speak out when things go wrong. Public officials are meant to be our servants, working on our behalf. They are not meant to be robbing us and putting our lives at risk.
Public officials are a good place to start for sure, and if you don't get the results you are looking for make it known at the ballot box when it comes election time. The thing, the one and only thing, elected officials are concerned with is getting re-elected. So we need to make it known that if they don't start representing the people that they will be voted out, once a few incumbents start getting defeated the remaining ones will start paying attention.
Yes - I'm not sure the ballot box works these days (if it ever really did) - though I think it works best in local government. I've more to say on that subject in the future.