By Monica Chen I complained about a Sheriff’s Deputy. Then, the Durham Police started harassing me. Then, it got even worse. First of all, I have had positive experiences with law enforcement in Durham. Friendly and responsive officers who left me feeling safer than before they arrived. Unfortunately in Durham, public safety has been declining since 2013. And then since 2017, the police have increasingly, actively been disrupting and bullying good residents, peaceful homes and neighborhoods instead of protecting them – protecting us. The police have been on the side of bad people, even coddling them. I think the actions of the Durham Police are about controlling movement, and breaking the normal rules of engagement, interaction, communication – so that incompetence and corruption would not be exposed. We are not allowed to engage with the Durham Police on our own terms, in normal ways. So this happened to me in June. The short version is that I was upset by a Sheriff’s Deputy’s actions with puppies that I had rescued. I called to complain about …