Whilst Methinks Oftentimes 'the Cops' Cop Just a Tad Too Much Flak, When - from Personal Experience of Late - Their Ranks are Chockablock Full of Some Really Decent Ladies and Gentlemen...

And whereas my (aforementioned) 'observation' most definitely pertains to my own beloved land of Aotearoa-New Zealand, and doubtless many other - *at least largely Western, or at least European - lands of the world...

I'll just as readily concede that the systemic police brutality, nay outright criminality, exposed so damningly by said media throughout the U S of A over the past few years...

does indeed give any thinking - and moreover truly feeling - man, woman or child due cause for concern, and for pause in being too footloose and fancy free with baskets of bouquets (in that particular direction), that's for sure...

*And no, my comment therein is hardly xenophobic or imperialistic etcetera, simply the result of well-studied listening in to various media channels over my entire lifetime...though at times, I'll readily concede a whole lot quicker than many others, selfsame 'media' (to greatly generalize about the mainstream purveyors thereof) is ofttimes far from the standard-bearer of truth personified (as the recent decrying of all things 'fakenews'-wise might tend to suggest (and thereby fool many folks))...