Wow, talk about taking to the next level....
" He made people laugh. He brought joy to people. " Wow, I never knew being loaded to the gills with PCP will make people laugh & bring them joy. Maybe I ought to rethink my anti-drug views, yes?
Fun fact about being a police officer, its a job, you don't have to stay a police officer if you don't like your job.
None of what you state is inherently false. The problem for the society occurs when those who enforce the society's own rules become a target for the society. This has now happened in most 'blue' states. The result is that those who served the public good for even borderline altruistic reasons will say, '**** this shit' & retire. Those left, much like the military, are not the best and often either have tendencies for bullying or laziness.
In the case of the military its usually because they don't have many other options, or it provides a decent pay and free college education if you stick with it long enough.
Then again, some of us are naive & stupid enough to do it for altruistic reasons, even though we never are properly compensated for our sacrifices. But hey, sure, I'm a craven monster who gets off putting a gun in minority faces because I'm just such an all-round bad guy.
In the case of police officers, think about it, you say that they are underpaid, but can you think of many other occupations that provide a decent salary for only 9 months of training?
Well, all of them? Putting your life at risk for a not-much-better-than-minimum-wage job isn't something smart people (AKA those with no conscience or morals) will do for giggles. That's why, for example, the military needs to promise college tuition to those who take their suck offer - the belief, imagined or otherwise, that they'll make something of themselves while making things better. Stupid suckers, right, just like Trump is supposed to have said?
Defunding or as you put it "abolishing" the police isn't the answer,
yet that IS the answer, and the ONLY answer, no matter what Leo and you claim... at least before polling started to show that people weren't so wild about Vice President elect Poontang bailing out child molesters & rapists simply because they claimed they just wanted to punch Nazis.
The belief that law enforcement is racist is inherently false. Why? Because a significant number if not majority of Law Enforcement Officers (LEO's, geddit?) are racial minorities. Just as with the military, law enforcement is one of the institutions where people can 'shed' racial bigotry. In my current job, there's at least 30% mixed-race/not 'white', as well as around 10% queer representation, in the law enforcement, while those they are policing (which I'm a part of) are far more aligned with societal percentages.
Are there racist cops? Of course. I've been on the receiving end of their racism. Does that excuse the Democrat Party cheering for rioting, destruction, and lawlessness? Only in the minds of Proggy fascist scum. I hope to Christ that it's too late for Pedophile Joe to reverse course...
Why? Because I strongly believe that only through having the Democrat Party's having a thorough curb-stomping - like a teeth-broken-off-in-the-asphalt destruction, can they stop being treasonous scum and return to being a legitimate opposition party rather than Chinese stooges.
Which would be nice, because I hate supporting the GOP. They're mostly corporatist swine.
Also, we don't have a democracy, we have a "republic", which is fancy words for unlimited capitalism that is destroying our nation.
Capitalism isn't destroying our nation by any measure. Corporatism certainly isn't doing it any good, but corporatism is yet another province of the Democrat Establishment. There's a bunch of "RINO's" who provide the pretense of an opposition party, but they're more interested in attending Georgetown cocktail parties than in any silly principles or morals.