That's a disgusting thing to say. Before calling police officers pigs, consider that they're the ones who show up to fight for your life when you need them. There's definitely ways to improve policing in America, but the vast majority of them are honorable people doing a dangerous job and serving their countrymen.
I agree that the police are doing a difficult job (NOT a particularly dangerous one, however: http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/data/the-most-dangerous-job...) and they deserve and get my respect when they are doing it properly and let themselves be held accountable.
However, there's a strong movement in the US to undermine accountability. Preventing citizens from recording the police, lying on behalf of colleagues, refusal to hold the police legally accountable in court, and the manufactured outrage whenever somebody says something critical about the police are all part of it.
Ultimately, accountability is what separates the police as citizens in uniform (who deserve and get my respect) from a taxpayer funded gang (who deserve no respect).
There is no honor in propping up corrupt departments and officers. The majority of police officers do. They are concomitant to maintaining the status quo.
I was very bothered that you totally misrepresented my comment about the minimum wage. I never called anyone unhinged. I called the proposal unhinged from reality, because it doesn't take into account the economic reality of rural and small town America. There's a big difference between attacking an idea and attacking the people proposing it. Not to mention that that the word "unhinged" itself has a very different meaning when calling a proposal "unhinged from reality" than when calling a person "unhinged".
Maybe they show up and fight for your life but that's not a universal experience. Some people and communities rationally fear and dislike police officers.
