Okay Dwayner, point taken... My comments were stirred by years a cycle commuter and several instances in younger years where the encounters with police were never positive.
Today I'm a little more respectable, a little more likely to garner a "Sir" from an officer rather than a "punk," a little more likely to have something the police would protect.
I acknowledge that the police do server the public and do deserve some respect from that standpoint. At the same time I think we all need to acknowledge that Law Enforcement in general can get quite wacko without adequate public oversight, that civil liberties are abused regularly through intimidation on the streets, that youth, minorities and the socially disenfranchised are often the targets because they don't have a voice that carries much weight.
That's where the Pigs came from...