Posted on 12/09/2014 5:51:29 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
We are well on our way to anarchy...with the lawless POTUS in Chief...it will not end well for the Republic
Freegards
LEX
he’s got a point
The deal with the police is that they stopped acting like “friends” of the community a long time ago.
Individual police officers are fine. You get more than two of them together, and they start acting like you are a “civilian” and could not possibly understand any situation they are dealing with.
The police stop people for no apparent reason. They stand by the window of your car with their hands on their weapons long after than threat has been dismissed.
They ask you where you are going and what you are doing without any probable cause. They make veiled threats to people without any probably cause.
I have seen these things happen. I have had them happen to me repeatedly. The primary reason they happen is that as a person who works late nights in “bad areas” causes me to be driving at 2-3 AM.
If the police want to know why a lot of people do not trust them, its because they have separated themselves from the people they are supposed to be serving.
I have a future son in law who is applying for a State Police Trooper position because he is looking for the same “brotherhood” that he had in the Army. When the local police become militarized in mindset and equipment, we are in trouble.
After Obama gets done with his remaking of police forces with new guidelines and oversight to make sure that they are ineffective, a lot more police are going to stop caring and stop responding to incidents and calls in major parts of towns. Areas will become no go zones and any order will be meted out by the residents themselves or the gangs.
Yes, he does. While I was on active duty I stopped caring many times. I thought about getting out when Clinton was screwing things up but figured I could somehow fight it from within. I finally did retire last year. I was pulled aside more than once for stating my opinions about numerous things that Barry Soetoro has done. Of course that didn’t stop me from talking. There are other ways to voice an opinion such as bumper stickers, t-shirts etc. My wife was always afraid of someone being offended by it all but I told her they don’t have the right to not be offended.
Very well said!
The police here where I live(a virtually crime free small town) patrol the streets as if they’re some sort of occupying army or something. Most of them treat anyone that isn’t them with contempt and suspicion. If I saw one in need of help, I’d just pretend that I didn’t see anything.
Words matter, especially every word and syllable coming from you, Mr. President. Now, six years later, everything that happens to blacks, is somehow the cops fault.
Mr. President, you may think the American people are stupid too but it appears the stupid one is the one calling us and the police names.
Maybe you should boot the bad apples off the force, instead of looking the other way, covering for them with phony “internal investigations” or transferring them to a different agency or city.
I used to be a big supporter, now I tend to assume the worst until proven otherwise.
“”Despised, hated, distrusted”
Reading the first paragraph made think he was a reporter.
Maybe it is crime free because of them?
I don’t blame this fellow at all. Our entire culture has become so anti-authority (yet so entitled to perfect safety and comfort) that we must seem too repulsive to bother protecting.
Exactly.
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Yes I do hate having police in the government schools. They are not in my child’s private school. And if the police did a better job stopping crime and fostering an organized environment instead of shooting dogs and acting like bullies with a badge, maybe, LT, things wouldn’t be where they are.
But the cops take no responsibility for this issue whatsoever. So LT, you’d best resign, because if you don’t care, you’re toast.
This guy is way behind the curve. Cops around here haven’t given a damn in years. Maybe they just sense the feeling is mutual.
My town is the smallest little white bread community in Massachusetts.
I have a chief of police who will only issue restricted LTCs. He will make you drop a couple hundred dollars on an ADDITIONAL class beyond the one required by the state to get a CC permit.
And the requirements are not posted anywhere. And when you ask, you are treated like a gun nut. And if you are request the requirements in writing, you will never get the license.
AND, if you carry openly (which is allowed in MA) you will be stopped the second you step out in public.
I think you make a good point. Some of the very characteristics that police departments look for in recruits are the very characteristics that should be disqualifying.
If I lived in an area like that, I would welcome it. If police cannot handle it then it is up to We The People to put the rabid dogs down.
That said, I live in a quasi-rural town where the police are professional, responsive and respectful. I'm friends with a few of them and have had many interactions with a lot of the guys on the force and my local PD is always a welcome sight. We're some of the lucky ones.
You live in a fetid place I call “Yankeeland”. You deserve what you get.
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