Here in Seattle the cops don't fly an American flag outside their union headquarters, only the "thin blue line" flag. In their salary negotiations they sacrificed a week of back pay so their back pay could start on 1/6/2021 (the date of the Capitol insurrection) instead of the end of their last contract. Dozens of our police here in Washington participated in the insurrection. They were under a consent decree for civil rights violations for a decade. When a cop recently ran over a college student while going 74 mph in a 25, the vice president of the police union was caught on camera laughing with the police union president and saying "she was 26 anyway, she had limited value." Police here have a dismal crime clearance rate, often don't respond at all to property crimes, or take forever. During the protests in 2020, they were absolutely savage with protestors.

I have no empathy for the police, here in America at least. They are an occupying, militarized force that has zero accountability to the people. Maybe if they started treating citizens like human beings, and holding themselves to a higher standard, I would.