Posted on 02/19/2022 5:21:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
Too many cops are choosing the side that uses and abuses them.
believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison
Without a doubt, being a police officer is one of the most difficult and dangerous job on the planet. One has to admire those who take on the job. The American left has made its contempt of our police abundantly clear for several years now. Encouraging the BLM riots, excusing the damage done, decreeing no punishment for those who did billions of dollars in property destruction over the summer of 2020 was their coin of the realm. Lacking common sense and any skill at predicting the consequences of idiotic policies, they have doubled down on stupid as cities like NY, Chicago, DC, and LA rack up homicides committed by career criminals repeatedly let loose on an unsuspecting public.
On a daily basis innocent victims are attacked, injured or killed by violent perpetrators who have been released by cavalier lefty judges who have become self-appointed social justice warriors.
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So how do we explain the fact that in countries around the world, Australia, UK, US, France, Belgium, Austria, and Canada, the police, those who were not fired for refusing the vaccine, have taken the opportunity to act like tyranny’s handmaidens rather than protectors of the people, their essential charge, the reason they signed up for the job? In Canada, a few have sided with the truck drivers’ cause, but the rest seem to enjoy the opportunity to roust good, law-abiding, non-violent protesters.
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You’re saying what a lot of us are thinking.
Ordinary cops are the focus of this thread. Gestapo was a term for “Secret State Police” which is our modern FBI. Deep State police are more or less acknowledged as an ongoing problem from the start in this thread. It is ordinary police which have become the statist jackboot thugs, that’s the point of this thread. We are at the point now [and for those of us aware of it, have been at this point for a long time] where ordinary police are the problem.
There has never been a shortage of brainless muscle
***Good wordsmithing ✍️
That’s pretty good advice.
I really don’t think that is the answer. The answer lies within themselves to bring honor back to the profession. 99% of every detainment and arrest is based on “the officer’s discretion”. Right there is both the opportunity to do right, and the shutting down of their “just doing orders” as an excuse to pass the blame up the ladder. Their own discretion is a powerful legal tool, all they have to do is use it more justly and righteous per the constitution they took an oath to defend.
“Why didn’t you arrest him?” Because... It was unconstitutional and a direct violation of his rights, I did not have enough solid proof that a crime had been committed. THAT IS THEIR TRUE JOB. But they don’t, they arrest on just “suspicion” and very little if any proof. Then throw it in the system of “injustice” and let the courts settle it. In the mean time if the “suspect” is innocent his life has been destroyed whether he is found guilty or not. They have very little concern for the extreme hardships they cause.
Simple cure, just exercise RIGHTEOUS CONSTITUTIONAL personal “officer’s discretion”... It carries huge legal weight...
Same thing is happening in the military.
the same cops then funneled the permitted demonstrators right into the waiting arms of Antifa when the demonstration was over, essentially setting the stage for mayhem. I also remember seeing cops in California standing by and letting anti-Trump rioters attack Trump rally goers.
***That same exact funneling took place right here in the SF Bay Area for the 2 Trump rallies that were here. I knew it was going to happen so I did not attend the rallies. I would have been arrested for beating the hell out of some Antifa.
“the officer’s discretion” vs. the officer’s career, benefits, retirement and peer pressure. No contest there.
So why would anyone be surprised to see Canadian cops doing the bidding of a petty tin-horn tyrant like Trudeau?
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Neither the police, the press nor the politicians are on the peoples’ side. That’s where we are now.
No, you’re wrong.
Nobody reveres totalitarian control and violence you describe in your post, other than communists, fascists and other half-wits.
What you’re targeting is the normal, reasonable attitude of respect patriotic Americans have for law enforcement.
You might be falling for the communist tactic of attempting to destroy the system of law enforcement in a country hated by communists for its success and objective moral righteousness.
Police are human, and are just as subject to being indoctrinated as much of the population. They have been told over and over again that these people fighting the government’s orders are evil, and they are trying to destroy the country. A lot of them buy into the brainwashing, I imagine.
Look at the people who are terrified of going out in a place where people aren’t wearing masks. They are brainwashed, most of them in a direction they are inclined to go anyway. There is absolutely no reasoning with them, because they are committed to that belief.
Yes they do. YOU ARE. There has NEVER been a point in human history when the power to police was unabused. If you revere the police you revere totalitarian control and violence.
It’s just that simple.
Very true. A little more than a year ago I was arrested for resisting arrest. Charges were dropped. Now it’s time to sue the city.
When they hire on they are forced to take an oath to the Constitution. That oath IS their job. If they use officer’s discretion to uphold the Constitution then being fired for “doing their job” of upholding the Constitution is a wrongful termination suit hands down. It is what they were told to do and took an oath to do and signed a contract to do. If this was done in mass it would end this crap.
Are you aware that normal policing exists?
Are you aware that the very EXISTENCE of police is the use of force against the citizens? Standing up a police force is declaring that your citizens must be kept in line with threat of jail or violence. THAT is “normal policing”.
NEVER revere force turned against you. Like you said, the only people that do that are communists, fascists and half-wits. I’ll let you decide which of the 3 you are.
Communists can’t understand the reality of normal policing because, like all psychopaths, they don’t think other people are capable of having an ethical compass based on objective moral law.
So I’ll redirect you back to the reality of normal policing. All it takes is for law enforcement agencies to hire individuals with a conscience.
Careful, you’re revealing an anarchist philosophical foundation. It’s third on the list of half-wits.
“Very true. A little more than a year ago I was arrested for resisting arrest. Charges were dropped. Now it’s time to sue the city.”
Funny how they keep yelling “quit resisting” when you are just standing there not doing anything wrong, or already in handcuffs. That in it’s self is crooked and dishonest as hell.
Okay.
Or should I say, “Play”.
No big deal.
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