Do you think the police are really there to protect you? We are told from childhood that the police are our friends and are there for our benefit. While minorities have often seen and experienced otherwise, the rise of youtube and other "democratic" media outlets has shown increasingly how police act like jerks, take our liberties, and treat average people like dirt.

One recent example of that recently occurred on Thomas Jefferson's birthday at the Memorial in our Nation's Capital which honors him. Radley Balko discusses the details of this recent example of police abuse at Reason's blog.