Look at any type of profession and you are going to have shit heads that slip in and get hired. It just happens. For the most part police officers are out there helping people and not being dickheads. You have a problem with law enforcement here, how about moving somewhere else.

Don’t get me wrong, I like that too. I’ve just had enough run-ins with British, Canadian and American police officers (not necessarily on the wrong side of the law – I’m the son of a police officer and have spent most of my life around them) to see that none of them are generally different than each other. Like any sufficiently large group of people, there will be people who go above and beyond to be considerate and do good that is not in their job description, and there will be assholes who abuse their power and position for some end, regardless of whether or not they can justify it to themselves or others. There are lots of ways that police can and do abuse their power in the absence of the threat of a firearm, just like there are lots of ways that some police go to great lengths to protect members of the public even without the backup of a firearm.

The problem with policing in general is that the assholes who abuse their power have a far greater ability to do so than most any other group of people, and there has never been a bureaucratic-oversight solution to the problem of police abuse of power. Again, that’s not to universally slam all police, but to say that asshole police can and do get away with a lot, which if nothing else is a reason to maintain a safe distance and suspicious disposition towards most police. That being said, politeness and reasonableness tends to go a long way towards not getting cuffed, thumped or arrested; but I try to be reasonable and polite to everyone, regardless of whether or not they have a badge.

/rant on policing

You don’t sound like you live in a bubble, you just sound like a very miserable guy who hates the world. Double parking to pick up your child literally only takes a minute, nobody would be bothered by that. I live in Brooklyn NY, and if somebody like you tried to argue with someone who double parked, then the person who they double parked in front of would take their side.

Double parking in front a car for a long occasion is a different story and nobody likes that, but to pick up your child is nothing. and if anything you’re still in your car and you can move out of the fucking way if the person you’re blocking asks. It takes a minute for crying out loud.