Charity for Police-State Parasites?

Recently I received in the mail an advertisement, soliciting donations to an organization supporting local (Houston) police officers. It featured a photo of a militarized Houston cop, all dressed up for military combat, automatic assault rifle and all — as if about to bust down some innocent citizen's door and shoot him — and/or his dog.

Why, I wondered, did they think that picture would motivate me to give money to help that guy? He's already drawing a parasitic wage, as he and his buddies routinely arrest and imprison local citizens for nothing more than possessing negligible amounts of recreational substances, and fining innocent, law-abiding drivers — to the tune of hundreds of dollars per "traffic stop" — for actions that neither harm nor endanger the persons or property of anyone. Untold heaps of taxes already go towards enabling him and his buds to dress up, not as policemen, but as assault troops. Yet somehow, this image was supposed to prompt me to voluntarily pay something extra?

The photo doesn't depict the kind of "police officer" I would picture serving and protecting me, but the kind I would fear a fellow citizen facing in one of numerous documented cases of "mistaken address" in which innocent citizens have lost their front doors, dogs, and lives to a combination of bureaucratic ineptitude and despotic bravado.

The $100 donation solicited by the mailer is rewarded with a vehicle sticker, identifying the donor as a supporter of police-state assault troopers. Houston traffic is already peppered with those stickers. Ironically, those drivers whose cars and trucks sport the trendy sticker probably feel a little safer, while I most certainly do not.