I appreciate you taking the time and writing your experiences. My problem with "law" enforcement is that you agree to enforce all manner of laws, and from your experience you basically admitted to doing such, regardless of right or wrong. To you it might seem like something that we can agree to disagree on but laws which define crimes without a victim, are wrong, immoral and don't protect anyone. If you stop someone driving drunk, that's great, there was potential harm to others, but if you basically kidnap someone for drinking without an id it's wrong, always.
I don't see any reason that cops should be patroling for crimes, any more than we have the ambulances looking for accidents or the fire department paroling for fire, nor do I see any evidence that tickets make people drive more carefully or considerably, and in spite of policing the streets there are many places that have fewer accidents and no cop presence.
Police should be tasked with investigating and reporting to crimes just like firefighters, except there should not be a monopoly on who can respond or investigate, it should be ok for others to do thes things, and arguably do it better as for one, police chiefs have admitted numerous times that there are IQ limits for police, which doesn't promote "investigating" at all, while you have admitted that you were basically praying and targeting a low income black community, instead of responding to crimes.
Police have their roots steeped deep into the same practices and methods that their predecesors, the Slave Catching Patrols did, and a constant rigidity to be above the law, while at the same time tasked with enforcing the law, which many hardly can know. Just a couple months ago some cops were telling me on my own property that it wasn't my own property, they were that ignorant as to not recognize my own property, or bother to examine that proof, and that is indicative of the ineptitude of "we don't make the laws" they left and I think they had realized that when my neighbors were trying to claim the easement that was for them, as their property.
To close, seeing how cops are always ok with enforcing immoral and unjust laws, which don't protect the innocent only make criminal, actions that harm nobody, I find it hard to believe that they have a meaningful purpose, as they hardly catch 1% of the crimes in progress, and a lot of time, those "crimes" aren't hardly crimes without a victim, while there's plenty of departments that have admitted and the courts have upheld the right to discriminate based on IQ limits, raising the questions of why and how does that help in investigating crimes if you refuse to hire people of higher intelligence?
Thank you for the feedback and response. Educational standards are certainly an issue that need to be addressed.
Again, your feedback appreciated. It doesn't sound like there is anything I can say to alter your opinion. Thank you for taking the time to read anyway!