[chevydude26]

Government mafia is what the police force is

[Travis McGee]

[JRandomFreeper]

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

[yarddog]

Well there is or at least was, one honest cop in the Loveliest Village on the Plains.

[Veggie Todd]

Government mafia is what the police force is.

That's an insult to the mafia.

[man_in_tx]

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?

[11th_VA]

"so what [the police] do is they lower their standards,” ...

especially if they have a UGA or Florida bumper sticker ...

[tpmintx]

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.

[suthener]

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.

[Rome2000]

I bet the new Police Chief wasn’t from Alabama

[yawningotter]

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.

[Spirochete]

“You have a policy that encourages police to create petty crimes and ignore serious crimes, and that’s 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.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

In a just world, Justin Hanners would be the new police chief of the Auburn, Alabama police department.