I don't know anything about cops in Scotland, and I have no reason to disbelieve that you did your job motivated by kindness, and that you didn't abuse people.
In the United States however, police operations are a very different story. Cops in the United States are mostly brutal, violent, fascist thugs.
If you are member of a minority, whether you're Black, Latino, indigenous, or queer — watch out when you're around cops, because they will fuck you up hard.
Are literal white supremacists and neo-Nazis screaming at children and beating up people trying to protect them as they walk into a library for a drag queen story hour? Threatening them with guns?
Don't expect the cops to protect the queer parents or even the children.
I've written too many stories about cops fist bumping Proud Boys and neo Nazis as they watch queer people being subjected to fascist violence.
Why? Because cops in the United States, even in relatively liberal areas, are — in large part — brutal, violent, fascist thugs.
I'm sorry you lost your career, but I have to note that it's extraordinarily rare to hear or see any active duty police officer speak up against police brutality. It's vanishingly rare to hear any active duty police officer call for meaningful reform.
Because cops are brutal, violent, fascist thugs.
I emphasize with you personally, but I must point out that if the handful of good cops in the United States want things to change, then they'd better start exposing their corrupt brothers and sisters, and seeing to it that they're either jailed or fired.
Until then, cops in the United States are going to remain brutal, violent, fascist thugs.
Forgive me if I don't feel a tremendous amount of sympathy for the cops who are not exposing them. Those cops, even if they're not brutal themselves, ARE the problem.
Here are three stories which highlight U.S. cops being fascist pigs.
