> Dating the police is just such an astoundingly egregious violation of this principle

There are still quite a few people who think the police are the friendly government-provided customer service agents of life, although I've watched this viewpoint decline markedly over the last twenty years at least.

Locally, a woman went on a hiking date with a Phoenix cop and wound up dead [0]. Notably, the woman was from New England, while the cop was local and absolutely should have known better how dangerous conditions would be. The police, of course, investigated themselves and found they did nothing wrong.

[0] https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/hiker-recalls-seeing-woman...

really? Thats the evidence cops are bad? Im honestly embarassed.

We have seen the left do a virtue signaling marathon while ignoring all problems of substance and still beeing in denial on why the general population categorizes them into "unfit to govern elite from reality detached elite" while the right does not much to help, but at least its populist signal that they are capable of detecting and prioritizing the populations problems correctly.