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I gotta disagree with you to some degree. I have no problem with the concept of the police needing to have as many rights to protect and allow them to do their job as the public gets when not agreeing with them. The problem is that it really doesn't help me to give police the right to blindly do things, knee jerk reaction type actions, towards me based on a minimal or invisible standard of suspicion or because some random citizen said something stupid. Hell, if people making statements or acting like retards was the standard for a shoulder check the world would have to walk around in hockey gear, cops included cause they are just as dumb as the rest of us.
Basically, I don't want to give up my rights in the name of safety. My rights are what make me safe. I trust that the greater percentage of police are good people and do the right thing. I doubt the percentage of them that cross the line and act like tools is any different than in the general population.
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