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Cop Fired for speaking out against ticket and arrest quotas
http://reason.com/reasontv/2013/07/24/how-quotas-pervert-police-priorities-fir ^
Posted on 07/24/2013 3:44:29 PM PDT by chevydude26
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Government mafia is what the police force is
To: chevydude26
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posted on
07/24/2013 3:47:03 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
07/24/2013 3:48:51 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: chevydude26
There isn't much difference between governments and shakedown/racket mobs. In fact, I can't really think of a difference besides the spiffy uniforms.
/johnny
To: Travis McGee
To: chevydude26
Well there is or at least was, one honest cop in the Loveliest Village on the Plains.
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posted on
07/24/2013 3:54:32 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: chevydude26
Government mafia is what the police force is.
That's an insult to the mafia.
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posted on
07/24/2013 3:55:03 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(What difference does it make?)
To: chevydude26
Look, if you were an officer of the law, would you rather bust soccer moms in lovely attire for going 12 miles over the speed limit, or accost tattooed killers in MS-13 for things like human trafficking?
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posted on
07/24/2013 4:04:16 PM PDT
by
man_in_tx
(Blowback (Faithfully farting twowards Mecca five times daily).)
To: chevydude26
"so what [the police] do is they lower their standards, ...
especially if they have a UGA or Florida bumper sticker ...
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posted on
07/24/2013 4:29:13 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
To: chevydude26
One disturbing thing is the comment in the recording along the lines of “busting people is what we signed up for when we got this job.” If you signed up to be a police officer just so you can bust people, then you are a bully, not a law enforcement officer.
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posted on
07/24/2013 4:35:19 PM PDT
by
tpmintx
(Gun free zones are hunting preserves for unarmed people.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Exactly so. Town budgets are not based on how many people were fined and what revenue was collected LAST year to add to the pot, rather how many citizens are GOING to be fined next year.
You know, that presumption of innocence thinggy...
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posted on
07/24/2013 4:42:43 PM PDT
by
MileHi
( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
To: chevydude26
True story about Auburn P.D.; a guy ends the night at a bar about 1/4 mile from his house. Decides he has had too much to drink so he’ll walk home. Gets arrested for public intoxication while walking. They could have just watched him to make sure he made it okay or given him a ride. This was several years ago.
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posted on
07/24/2013 4:43:02 PM PDT
by
suthener
To: suthener
THAT sure makes the town safer.
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posted on
07/24/2013 4:44:39 PM PDT
by
MileHi
( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
To: tpmintx
Lots of bullies DID and DO sign up to bust people. Apparently only one cop resisted the order. Where are all the others?
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posted on
07/24/2013 4:44:46 PM PDT
by
VerySadAmerican
(If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)
To: chevydude26
I bet the new Police Chief wasn’t from Alabama
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posted on
07/24/2013 4:47:56 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
To: chevydude26
We are talking about a college town. You can get 100 contacts easy on an average Saturday night just by going after the underage drinkers. Seriously, if you have to meet quotas, you will be nitpicking honest citizens doing 26 in a 25 zone instead of serving and protecting.
To: yawningotter
That's one contact for every 1.6 hrs of work not very hard to do. It includes every contact with a person shouldn't be hard to meet does not have to be citations.
I guess we could have are LEOs doing nothing.
To: chevydude26
You have a policy that encourages police to create petty crimes and ignore serious crimes, and thats clearly the opposite of what we want our police to be doing, says Balko.
The officer is correct, but he fails to understand that "serious crime" is the whole rationale for a having a police department, and a PD that eliminates 100% of serious crime is like a predator that eliminates its entire pool of its prey.
Police ignore serious crime whenever possible. It helps justify bigger police budgets and drives demand for more government.
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posted on
07/24/2013 5:31:53 PM PDT
by
Spirochete
(Does the FedGov have the attributes of a legitimate government?)
To: chevydude26
In a just world, Justin Hanners would be the new police chief of the Auburn, Alabama police department.
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posted on
07/24/2013 5:33:41 PM PDT
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a chain of convenience stores.)
To: july4thfreedomfoundation
Cops = revenue collectors
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posted on
07/24/2013 6:11:44 PM PDT
by
bicyclerepair
(Inbred, pedophile-worshipping, misogynists (mozlums) offend me.)
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