I'm hardly a fan of the police. Whenever they're around I make a point of not doing anything until they leave. To quote Bukowki, "I don't hate cops... I just feel better when they're not around," but what an idiotic thing to be angry about.
The Coffee with a Cop thing is something I saw in Vegas, as well, and as far as I'm concerned it's a brilliant idea. One of the great problems of modern policing is that the individual officers are removed from the communities they patrol. It becomes a type of foreign occupation, where neither citizen nor officer view the other as human. Sitting down to chat is a great way of changing that.
The utter lack of self awareness with these types - it's right to shut down a Christian business, but wrong to shut down a leftie business - is very worrisome.
The Coffee with a Cop thing is something I saw in Vegas, as well, and as far as I'm concerned it's a brilliant idea. One of the great problems of modern policing is that the individual officers are removed from the communities they patrol. It becomes a type of foreign occupation, where neither citizen nor officer view the other as human. Sitting down to chat is a great way of changing that.
The utter lack of self awareness with these types - it's right to shut down a Christian business, but wrong to shut down a leftie business - is very worrisome.