The cost in wealth and blood of challenging the American Police State

http://www.infowars.com/resistance-is-futile-the-violent-cost-of-challenging-the-american-police-state/

“Police are specialists in violence. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. With varying degrees of subtlety, this colors their every action. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent.”
—Kristian Williams, activist and author

Authorized is the key word, I believe.

But, they deal with dirtbags all day and need to use that force quite often.

I don't think I could live without them... and all their warts.

I could