[Yahoshua]

Granted, it isn't necessarily fair to label ALL PD across the country as being in competition with the gestapo reputation, it really depends on WHERE the PD is that defines whether LEOs' there are trustworthy or not.

Me for example, has been arrested several times simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time (there really isn't anything more to it than that). And my dad was nearly shot while extracting money from an ATM machine while a cop was standing behind him yelling at the top of his lungs with his pistol out and at the back of my dads' head! My dad is deaf by the way, and the reason the cop was trying to get his attention is because the city had recently painted the curb near the ATM machine yellow and he hadn't noticed yet.

This was all in San Diego, and it is now well known that the LEOs' there are NOT trustworthy (I wouldn't go within 100' of a uniformed LEO for any amount of money). In fact the whole state of California has problems with PD corruption (google it to see what I mean), and it is rampant. But you cross the state line to Oregon and most of the LEOs' are nice and easy going. Go to some country towns and you'll find that the PD varies from town to town.

Some towns will have LEOs' that came from the city and are on a power trip. While other towns will have a PD that doesn't do ANYTHING more interesting than rescue cats ontop of power poles.

It really depends on where you go.

However, the exceptions that I'll note are these states: California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and parts of Nevada and Texas. I'd avoid these states by any and all means. And Washington D.C., Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, and San Diego are all cities to avoid. And now we'll add Phoenix to that list.