The Truth About Cops

Townhall.com ^ | September 23, 2016 | D.W. Wilber

[sanjuanbob]

Completely disagree with 4yr college degree. Colleges are nothing more than liberal indoctrination centers any more.

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In reflection, I totally agree with your closing sentence.
There must be some way in which the cops can become more trained to deal with all of the psychological and racial issues that these times demand. When my son started 1st grade 35 years ago, Officer “Friendly” would visit the class at least once a month to play and talk to all the kids...this was in the deep south. My son now works with cops every day.

[af_vet_rr]

I think that if an officer is proven to have made a mistake which they ought not to have made, then judgment should be made directly against the pension of the police union. All the cops should see their retirement get a little less bright because Officer Skippy got “one of his rages” and threw an old lady to the ground (again).

The police do need to police themselves. Some of the officers are bad and they are known to be bad. The Union needs to get rid of the bad cops before they do something really bad.

I love this idea.

If there is an honest mistake, if the cop was using proper judgment, and there is a lawsuit, I'm fine with the taxpayers covering it, since he was ostensibly working for the taxpayers.

But I see too many bad cops engage in extremely bad behavior, and it costs the taxpayers millions of dollars every year, and it just pisses me off so much that too many of these bad cops leave us, the taxpayers, on the hook for their bad behavior.

[af_vet_rr]

I’ll take one for the team here. “Any” job where physical prowess is a basic requirement, unless a woman can handle herself in training that is non-PC, she shouldn’t be in that job. The Tulsa PD, because of PC laws were forced to put this cop on the streets, knowing full well that this would eventually happen. This wasn’t an if, this was a when.

Give me a break, there were three male cops with her her. Unless you think none of the males with her were capable of handling themselves.

This has nothing to do with political correctness either - this has always happened, it's just that there are video cameras every where that catch this behavior, even though the cops fight like hell to keep the footage from being released.

I don't know how old you are, but when I was a kid, cops were doing this kind of stuff, or much worse, only there were no cameras around to catch it.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I don’t know how old you are, but when I was a kid, cops were doing this kind of stuff, or much worse, only there were no cameras around to catch it.”

I grew up in NYC in the 60’s in one of the worst neighborhoods in the city. This was at a time when busing blacks to white schools started to happen. Cops walked a beat by my house and in my building alone there were two cop families.

These riots we are seeing now have been going on for more than a generation. Look up the Harlem riot of 1964.

[af_vet_rr]

I grew up in NYC in the 60’s in one of the worst neighborhoods in the city. This was at a time when busing blacks to white schools started to happen. Cops walked a beat by my house and in my building alone there were two cop families.

These riots we are seeing now have been going on for more than a generation. Look up the Harlem riot of 1964.

Yes, and in some ways, these riots are pretty tame. I knew somebody who was in Tulsa during the riot in the early 1920s, when hundreds of people were killed, and dynamite and other explosive devices were being dropped out of airplanes onto people and buildings. In Tulsa's case, they did a really good job of officially covering up their role in it (the cops assisting in the murders, the fire department refusing to put out fires, etc.).

[Kaslin]

Excellent point and so true. Not all cops should be policemen, just like all teachers should be teachers, etc

[Kaslin]

Blue live matter indeed.

[Kaslin]

I was born and raised and educated in Germany. Every year a police officer visited our class room (and the other classroom in my school too) and talked about how to cross the streets safely (look left, than right, than left again and then you can cross. He also told us to turn the light on when you are riding a bicycle when it getting dark. (You get a ticket if you are riding a bicycle in the dark. And he talked about other important stuff too.

The last thing he said before he left was: Remember the police is your Friend and Helper. And that is so true. Our teachers also reminded us of that.
BTW the father of one of my classmates was a policeman, I don't remember if it was her father who visited our classroom or not.

[Does so]

It's imperfect people doing their best to enforce imperfect laws, in an often times very difficult environment, and being forced to make split second, sometimes life and death decisions, most of the time with little if any information to base their decisions on

'Wonder if a training video shows a traffic stop where the driver steps out with a spear gun?