Rouge cops? Do they bust women who wear too much make up?
Posted on 08/20/2014 6:33:20 AM PDT by Biggirl
Militarization of police forces has become the latest buzz phrase for politicians, pundits, and, it seems, everybody else. By now everybody in America, and probably well across the world, knows about, and has a theory about, the riots and looting following the shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.
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First big fat lie in the article: the old trope that policing is a dangerous job. What nonsense. It’s not even in the top ten most dangerous jobs in the US. A farmer, a fisherman, or a coal miner is exponentially more likely to be killed at work than a cop.
Second, the writer gives the game away when he says that body armor and gun turrets are only meant to “intimidate” the bad guys into seeing they don’t have a chance. The problem is that mindset becomes PERMANENT, and we’re all treated as bad guys. A cop’s job is not to intimidate me at a traffic stop by lifting weights , taking steroids, shaving his head, and screaming contradictory “orders” that will result in a tasing for “non-compliance.” The mindset engenders the idea that he doesn’t work for me, the citizen — he is exercising military control over the enemy.
The delusions of Seal Team Six grandeur, along with issuing military hardware to non-soldiers, have got to stop.
Oh, and CAMO outfits in Ferguson? Please. You’re just embarrassing yourselves.
The USConstitution prohibits a standing army. Police that are dressed, equipped and act like the military, are military. Policing is a civil activity not a military activity. If policemen are afraid of getting injured, if they dress, equip and act like mere policemen, then they _really_ need a new job.
Sometimes it seems like these SWAT teams operate with rules of engagement that are less strict than the ROEs that our soldiers fighting the Taliban have to follow. They need to be kept on a very short leash.
I have no doubt they have saved many lives over the years, but they also manage to screw up regularly, or so it seems.
Sure about that?
Cite your sources please. Thank-you!
BTW, ask anyone who is married/engaged to a LEO and they will tell you that they pray their dear one will come home after their shift is done.
That is why you have to weed out the rouge cops.
The music minister head of my church is married to a LEO who does child support enforcement and has of two children, a son and a daugther, the son is a local town cop. Not an easy life.
What about the teal or magenta ones?
The equipment is merely a means to an end. The real evil here is the police state mindset that our nation has become. The establishment of DHS was the single most destructive blow to our constitutional liberties for the sake of “security”. That watershed change in law enforcement as a national security arm has now percolated down to the local dog catcher.
And I agree with the analogies you presented...I’m not sure it’s the “norm” but it does happen way too often....
The bad or rotten cops in other words.
“Romans 13 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
Being Subject to Authorities
13 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you wish to have no fear of the authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive its approval; 4 for it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for the authority[a] does not bear the sword in vain! It is the servant of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be subject, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience. 6 For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, busy with this very thing. 7 Pay to all what is due them—taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.”
Okay. “Forbes” magazine. Don’t know if I’m allowed to post the link, so google “most dangerous jobs in the US.” Pops right up, along with a dozen other reputable sources.
Rouge cops? Do they bust women who wear too much make up?
ROTFLOL!
All this militarization of police and loss of freedom was done to PROTECT US FROM TERRORISM. We wanted the govt to save us.............................
How I learned to love the riot: 'rats destroy their own nests. It would be better to deploy a containment fence and riot recording robots that uplink high resolution video, sound, and Obamaphone pings/texts/voice. Revenge is best served cold. Looting is bad, and really bad for Democrats, but not by itself a rooftop sniper executable offense.
What a bunch of tripe. So according to the author, if I don’t have any personal anecdotal evidence of misuse by the police; my concerns are null and void?
I guess they don't like their women just a little on the trashy side.
***Militarization of police forces has become the latest buzz phrase for politicians,***
I saw an old Paul Muni movie last week about a strike in a coal mine.
The owners contract with a private security firm and they want the uniformed enforcers on Horseback as the crowds feared a man on horseback. “It’s something they brought over from the OLD COUNTRY!”
Now they come with MRAPs.
WE were warned of an attempt to establish a FEDERAL POLICE FORCE clear back in 1970.
Now it is here, complete with military armor.
Do rouge cops use stune guns on beebers?
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