Posted on 12/23/2019 7:16:58 PM PST by BenLurkin
No, it is not.
The military is not taught that their only job is "to get home safe". The current crop of cops are.
Once some has worn the "magic blue suit" they are special for life and will expect to be treated so.
From the lack of police officers being arrested you could be forgiven for thinking that they are "doing their job". They are not.
1. Cops have to deal with the scum of the earth every day.
2. Cops consider normal civilians like us to be the scum of the earth.
They cover for them and defend them without question.
I have no sympathy for those pricks that refuse to pull over and insist on high speed pursuits. Pull over, it’s simple. But when you have committed a violent felony and run getting other people hurt and the criminal justice system gives those who run just a slap on the wrist at best, that only encourages people to flee. If you commit a violet felony, run, injury others in the pursuit you need an ass whipping. Pull over it isn’t quantum physics we are dealing with here.
Perhaps they remove incriminating evidence, and only submit parts that are innocuous.
Maybe before you all crucify the cop, you might want to read the article.
““What our deputies did not know at the time was that Mr. Ward was not only the owner of the car but the victim of the earlier carjacking,” Essick said. “The suspect had pistol-whipped him and stole his car. Mr. Ward had recovered the car but failed to report it. It remains a mystery as to why he fled from our deputies.””
: “The suspect in the initial theft had been in possession of a firearm, and the vehicle was still reported as stolen.””
The problem is that that seldom do the good cops turn in or help get rid of the bad ones.
You would have a hard time convincing me that for every psycho thug, say the 1 out of 100, even 1 out of 1000, that there aren’t 5 or 10 (if not more) cops who know just how much of a violent Ass hole they are, but say nothing.
I’m sure the vast majority of cops are good folks who just want to serve their community and then go home to their family, but are they really ‘good’ cops if they know about a bully who is just longing to shoot or beat the crap out of someone but say nothing out of brotherhood or solidarity? Same thing applies, IMHO to soldiers, doctors, lawyers.
I’m sure the vast majority of cops are good folks who just want to serve their community and then go home to their family, but are they really ‘good’ cops if they know about a bully who is just longing to shoot or beat the crap out of someone but say nothing out of brotherhood or solidarity? Same thing applies, IMHO to soldiers, doctors, lawyers.
Most definitely.
If I saw *ANY* impropriety in my current position I would inform any and all authorities. Even if it were a friend or a highly respected colleague. Any person, anywhere, in any circumstance is morally guilty of any behavior they tolerate, be it a corrupt cop, a claims adjuster (a former gig of mine) who pads expenses or a bureaucrat who abuses their access to information that should be private.
A cop who knows about a dangerous bully is no better than that bully if they don’t bring it to the attention of their superior, period, no exceptions, no gray area.
I live where this case happened.
From the local rag:
“Court records describe four cases in which Blount used neck holds to control people, and in one case — involving a woman he tried to stop from jaywalking on a Santa Rosa street — video from a witness contradicted Blount’s testimony.”
Better a ‘snitch’ than an accessory to murder.
They’ve done that to deaf people too.
In favor of “murder”? No. Good bit of detail absent from the writeup. This victim of a carjacking who was unknown to the police responding, instead ran from police because he was a meth head (maybe with some other legal issues for driving while high, violation of parole, who knows?) and police cannot differentiate a victim from a perp when the victim is out of their mind and runs like this. It’s unfortunate but true. Should we microchip all methheads so the oolice won’t make the same mistake?
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Most definitely.
I have stood up for what is right several times in my life and it did cost me.................and it didn’t change anything.
Words are easy. As I get older I am more tired and have more to lose. But then we have to remember the Founding Fathers who were all older and risked and lost much for our nation.
What it changed is that you were still able to sleep at night.
The only times I’ve ‘snitched’on someone, I was able to do it anonymously, thankfully.
One bad apple DOES spoil the whole bunch.
Some folks on here believe there is no such thing as a ‘bad shoot’.
So in other words, just kill all meth heads and, while we’re at it, everyone who runs from the cops!
Why not? Makes things simpler. While we’re at it, lets just authorize our jackbooted saviors to shoot and kill anyone who doesn’t prostrate themselves in front of them and/or kiss their ring? No “Yes sir”= BLAM, must have been a meth head and/or guilty of something, such as not respecting authority!
After all, the *ONLY* thing that matters is that the officer gets to go home to their family at night, who cares about ‘civilians’.
That is sadly true.
Sorry, but the cops who look the other way when cops murder people are just as bad. Silence is consent.
Said nothing of the kind, but YOUR knees FRiend, jerk automatically & might add diagnostically. Put yourself on a meth highway as an LEO, whose task it is to police the “trade” as best they can using leveraged knowledge, and observational skills. Not the ACLU handbook, with the SPLC internal index of victimhood, inclusive of drug addiction as a “victim” plea.
For your possibly instructive viewing—2 weeks ago-—breadtrucker secret RV’er, fat toad stoner trying to convey his “i love everyone” virtue signalling in paying vid posts on you tub, and failing to conceal a poorly camouflaged chemically suppressed hot temper, is surprised by a Washoe Valley (ranchland,farms) Nevada county mountie from a county that is not Las Vegas, because he is driving poorly (not maintaining proper lane on major I-80 W interstate, weaving, then caught in 18 wheeler’s draft as a result- causing/making it worse), and is pulled. He starts right in with truly stupid behavior (you don’t start by directing the office to the traffic side of a wide body truck, for example, and trigger the officer’s “dick” predilections from real safety concerns) secretive and makes it worse, drama? boost posts- whatever, stupid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6EntYvGtkI
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