Yup. And then there is the topic of civil asset forfeiture. Don’t get me wrong, I support the police. But there are policies out there that need to be reformed.
Totally agree. Also, qualified immunity needs a real hard look. If a govt. official violates someone Constitutional rights, they need to loose their immunity.
One last thing, we all were rightfully disgusted by the judge that put the Dallas salon owner in jail. But why did we give the police officer that arrested her a pass?
Excellent point.
One last thing, we all were rightfully disgusted by the judge that put the Dallas salon owner in jail. But why did we give the police officer that arrested her a pass?
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To me, it was the elected official’s edicts that were the problem—not the cop just doing his job.
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I used to get hassled by the cops all the time when I was a teen and college student, driving very beat-up cars because that was all I could afford. It didn't seem to matter how carefully I drove, they would still find a reason to stop me.
Later I wore three-piece suits all day, every day, and drove very nice cars. I had lawyers that worked for me and knew how to use them ... but it was never necessary.
The cops didn't hassle me anymore.
It seems to me, based upon my own lifetime of experience, that some of the cops at least were looking to make their quotas of stops or busts with the weaker (economically) members of the herd ... those less likely to be able to push back, to have them deposed or examined by attorneys for the other side ... to know their rights ... to make them look bad if there was really no reason for the interaction in the first place.
The blacks have doubtless suffered this heavily; and, the more honest and upstanding they are, the more unjust.
Senator Tim Scott (important Trump ally) has stated that he has been pulled over seven times while driving to the Capitol (between 2013-2016) and required to produce I.D. He goes on to say that none of his white colleagues has experienced this.
Most major police departments are now fully-unionized government agencies where it is difficult to fire someone who is not doing a good job.
That's where we're at, folks. We've allowed a situation to arise which BLM and the socialist movement can successfully exploit.
I just wish that while we're "Defunding" some police departments we could "Defund" the State Dept, the EPA, the Dept of Education, the U.N., Obamacare-Medicaid and quite a few other government programs.