[mywittyname]

Believable metric.

Many citizens in the abstract, "support" police. But police are pretty indiscriminate with their power tripping. So people with actual experience dealing with them tend to form negative opinions when they realize this might be a Leopard Ate Your Face moment.

I've heard an actual person say, "I though police were only like that to <...> people".

[Clubber]

An old saying I heard was, "Everyone is a liberal until they are mugged. Everyone is a conservative until they are harassed by the police."

>I've heard an actual person say, "I though police were only like that to <...> people".

I saw a video of a lady getting a ticket for something and kept saying, "But I'm a Republican!" As if that would make the officer change his mind.