By the populace you mean yourself and other like-minded individuals? After all, there would be no need to oust if elections could solve these problems for you? I wonder why the minority are always so loud in their opinion that they speak for the whole, personally I believe its because they know they truly don't speak for everyone.
By populace I mean populace:
pop·u·lace
noun
1.
the common people of a community, nation, etc., as distinguished from the higher classes.
2.
all the inhabitants of a place; population.
This is all very nice rhetoric, but its just a perspective.
The rhetoric about the social contract I stated? It's actually a huge part of American history.
Even you admit that from a pragmatic and realistic perspective that police are different than normal citizens
All I said is that their authority is granted by the people, and when they breach the social contract with the people, they reap what they've sown.
hell you listed yourself several reasons why in your opinion. Heck you dismiss the high speed cash exactly not by citing law, but by citing that its stupid and reckless in your opinion, not something we are arguing.
I dismissed it because you brought it up.
All I am saying, is that under the current laws police have special privileges that ordinary citizens do not have. You may not agree with these laws or what police do, but these laws do exist which give police special authorities and powers where ordinary citizens do not have them, that's all I'm saying.
That's the problem. Police are ordinary citizens. The only "special" citizens are elected officials. Even when I was in the Army, I never viewed myself as being above the US citizenry, because I wasn't. I enlisted into
service to protect them, and the Constitution. The key word their is bolded, because it's a very important distinction. I, just like cops are, was paid by the taxpayer. My job that everyone in the US paid me to do was to protect them. Not harm, not beat, or arrest, nor kill them. I was at the service of the United States, not the other way around. The same applies to cops. Some get it, that's cool, I got no beef with those ones. The ones that don't, **** 'em. They get what they get, because actions have consequences, and karma is a bitch.