Not so much now due to law changes with respect to spousal abuse, but in my day in LE you could get a "Family Trouble" dispatch where your hands were tied. The wife could be standing there with a bloody nose, black eye etc etc and if that assault did not happen in your presence, you could do nothing except warn the *expletive deleted* and advise the woman she could go to the prosecutor and get an assault warrant. Sometimes, you just knew that woman was gonna get more after we left because she had called the cops for help, pissing the drunk even more. So....most of us figured out that if one got a bit close to the *expletive deleted*, in his space so to speak, real close, no touching him, while quietly advising him not assault his wife again he would attempt to push us away with his hands. That was enough to cuff and stuff him for "Assault on a Police Officer".
He would be out of the house for the night, sober up, he'd plead to some simple misdemeanor in the morning. The wife would be safe for the night, we'd get the blame from the *expletive deleted*; not her and maybe the guy would mend his ways. Sometimes they did. Sometimes they didn't, but it solved for sure an ongoing assault when we'd leave the scene.
The problem is today that the standards for LEO's has been so degraded due to political correctness and the rest of the liberal progressive dreck people who never should be considered for the Job are now hired and turned loose. The problem is not just the some of the stupid laws that are being passed by other unqualified people who get themselves elected, but the combination of those two as a result of the ignorance, cavalier attitude, and downright stupidity by the electorate.
Oh, and the hypocrisy in this thread is thick. Some criticize others for stereotyping certain people or groups, while doing the very same thing by using a wide broom to paint all LE as jack booted thugs. There are some, I've even seen them and heard of them. But they are not all that way. Three very good ones, friends of mine who I partnered with, played sports with, drank beer with, broke bread with, were murdered in the line of duty trying to help others. So, point out the bad ones specifically. But to brand them all negatively is disgraceful.
