With people carrying around mobile phones with video and sound recording capability and the amount of security cameras pointed every which way, the conduct of cops is now coming into focus as more and more citizens demand equal and non-brutal treatment from those who are there to supposedly keep the peace and protect the citizenry. Police have become more and more militant and less public servants as more and more money has poured into anti-terrorist training and tactics. When there were protests in Ferguson, I watched as MRAP's rolled down the street. These vehicles were designed to keep soldiers alive in battle when a roadside bomb or anti-tank mine was detonated. What the hell was a police force doing with them with M60 Machine guns mounted on the turrets? That was not policing. That was para-military operations. With that mindset in place, police see everyone as a possible perp and only they are the good guys. It takes the thin blue line and erases it and creates an atmosphere of Us against Them in many police officers minds. The problem is "them" happens to be anyone who isn't a cop or military, that attitude leads cops to shoot first and make up lies later. As we are beginning to see, it's not rogue cops, or Rambo wannabe's doing this, it's rank and file patrol officers. That is a situation that has to be changed soon because the citizens of the U.S. will only take so much.