Posted on 05/19/2014 4:37:00 PM PDT by eccentric
At the time, I assumed we had some bad cops and we were going to see some righteous busting of cops, from what we were hearing, but then I watched some of the blow by blow video in slow motion on some cable station, and realized that it wasn’t what it had initially looked like, and what the media was making it out to be.
It wasn’t just a beat down, which do happen with some frequency, I guess you saw post 10, I have many stories from around the country, but most are from my hometown of Houston, beatings by cops were pretty routine.
I've always wondered why "the good cops" rarely seem to get around to turning out the bad ones in their midst. They absolutely know who they are... maybe they just like the company of the bad ones.
The People. Or sheep as your analogy says. But your analogy falls short because in the real world The People will attempt to pierce the blue wall of silence and hold you accountable. We will hang cameras around your necks. We will vote against your bond issues and against the sales taxes that fund you. We will work feverishly to end the practice of property seizure with the thin veneer of due process. We will de-fund city hall, county government, States and Fed. That is the right thing to do. That is the CONSERVATIVE thing to do. When conservatives say they want small government, that’s what it means. Small, lean, accountable. No trading sex for losing tickets. No shooting dogs. No letting LEO, judges, politicians off the hook for laws they pass and enforce.
No more business as usual for city hall or crooked politicians. That’s Conservative. No more nanny state empowerment for State sponsored extortion in the futile bid for safety. Small government, underfunded, weak and frustrated. The sheep can defend and depend on themselves if the onerous burden of government is removed. That is Conservative.
Peer pressure, thin blue line, us against them mentality, and no one but no one wants to be the first penguin off the ice floe.
When the dam finally breaks there are going to be a lot of freshly unemployed (and often incarcerated) ex cops. And the remaining cops will be more like the ones we remember from our youth.
I understand, but the good ones can't then complain when the stench starts to stick them.
That proves how rare they are, they barely exist.
It will probably take that before they are forced to clean house.
Human nature.
Nonsense. The majority are still decent.
I don’t know what you call decent, but they are part of the crimes that they conceal.
Here’s a bit more from another article:
IMPERIAL — An employee of a convenience store near the site of a traffic stop, after which an Imperial man died Sunday, said she saw the incident from start to finish, describing the deceased as “mad” and uncooperative but also described law enforcement reaction as “too much.”
The facts usually surface given there’s no media agenda to suppress them. But regarding King, the media got its riot, and many innocent people suffered for it.
Terrible story in #10.
It is just one of the things that helps create an us vs. them mentality for the police. People don't trust the police (for good reason, by many press accounts) which exacerbates hostility toward people seen as hassling them for revenue (not to mention the seizure of items and effects during vehicle searches without charges levies, which smacks of looting under color of law).
There is a strong and developing sense that rules are applied unevenly, and not just along racial lines, and the media foment the latter resentments in the population in general, where they can.
Without 'beat cops' on foot, getting to know the people and the area--and be known, police have become another faceless uniform not to be trusted in the public mind.
Worse yet, they see shows like 'Cops', and what once was respect degenerates to fear and animosity.
On the other side, the police often see the worst of the worst of our society, and that colors their worldview, too.
With increased militarization comes less respect for the Constitutional Rights of the people the police serve, and a greater tendency toward lethal force, even administered by allegedly non-lethal means.
I can't recall the last time I saw a police show on TV where the policeman was someone's friend, saved their life (with one exception of officers getting a guy out of a burning car), or wasn't a harbinger of bad tidings. Right down to the storm of media accounts of shot dogs, the public has a bad view of those they once respected as protectors of the people, and has come to view them as oppressors. Even without 'roid rage', that hostility becomes mutual.
When all you do wrong, and little you do right gets to the public eye, you might get an attitude, too. (NOT excusing it, just trying to figure it out.) In the end, we need to return a sense of Honor, not only to police ranks where it is lacking, but to the public view of the police. For the latter, that will require police acting honorably, and cleansing their ranks of those who violate the public trust and do not so conduct themselves. Eliminate the impression that a police officer can perform acts behind the badge without punishment that would get people on the other side of the tin jail time, and that would go a long way to restoring good faith.
They probably should have killed his family and friends, too. You don't want to take any chances...
Guess you’re in dutch now, null...
De Nile ain't just a river in the Netherlands...
I’m glad to see you can disagree with someone without resorting to idiotic name calling. /sarcasm
It’s a talent...
Another symptom of the modern police, is that they are union, and they are part of a union coalition that has taken over the political power of cities, with the goal of looting the money of the citizens of that city, for lavish pensions, and short work careers and high pay, and disability, making their own work conditions etc.
The police are off the leash, they and the teachers, city workers, firemen, lifeguards and all related unions, and the democrat party, are literally taking over cities as their own cash cows.
I think the police have morphed into something that cops of 80 years ago would not recognize now if not for the uniforms.
Cops aren’t there to preserve the community, and reflect the community, or even to protect the community they are largely out of our control, and the more generations that continues, the more morally corrupt and insular the departments become, and the more hiring and promotions, reflect it and reinforce it.
Even not discussing police work, many of us in big cities recognize that the unionized police and the other city employees, voting as a massive block, are dominating city elections, and practically appointing city government, and then looting the coffers and becoming even more independent and renegade.
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