That’s easy, health care was taken away, no pensions, both parents now need to work to pay bills leading to someone else raising their children, and the wealthy and politicians have zero accountability for anything

I often use Andy when talking to people about the huge gap between what used to be an ideal of policing and what that ideal is today. Granted, Andy was fiction, but today's Andy is in body armor and hides his/her badge.

Andy Griffith Show vs. Today's Police Force ...Today's Police are concerned with enforcing the law and catching as many “lawbreakers” as possible. The latter, Andy Griffith, was concerned with keeping the peace ... and at times that meant looking away when some laws got broken.

Highly recommend the podcast "Behind the Police" as well if folks are interested in this topic.

Andy would get slaughtered on our mean streets

I mean policing in the US has really never been that clean. Over a hundred years ago we were employing private security companies to bust heads the exact way we're doing now