Posted on 03/02/2020 5:11:35 AM PST by The Houston Courant
he July 2019 incidents in New York during which police officers were doused with water is not unusual. When I was a Philadelphia police officer nearly 40 years ago, one of the most dangerous assignments was to turn off a fire hydrant during the summer. The residents would throw water, buckets, bottles, etc. at police officers. (For the unfamiliar, being sprayed by water from a fire hydrant is what inner city kids do to cool off on a hot summer day).
What was unusual about this incident was the reaction - or more precisely the lack of a reaction- by the police officers. They did nothing - not even to defend themselves. Had those police officers behaved this way in the past, they might have been disciplined for their inaction. But such is the toxic environment of policing today that officers are now praised for being passive.
This has not gone unnoticed by the officers themselves. The contemporaneous response to the July 2019 incidents, by the NYPD Police Benevolent Association’s President Patrick Lynch, was to lay blame at the feet of the politicians. “Our anti-cop lawmakers have gotten their wish: the NYPD is now frozen,” he seethed. “It’s not the fault of these police officers. It’s the end result of the torrent of bad policies and anti-police rhetoric that has been streaming out of City Hall and Albany for years now.”
https://www.houstoncourant.com/houston-voices/2020/contempt-of-cop-and-shackling-police
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No.
Get a job.
Rank and file police officers are getting it from multiple directions. “Community activists”, showboating politicians, hostile media, sheeple following the activists wolves, social justice warrior “students”, and finally their own police chiefs who are nothing more than career politicians and bureaucrats pretending to be law enforcement. Yes I’m talking about Arthur the Asshole of Austin/Houston and McManus of Minnecraponus/San Antonio.
The police officers work for the people, not the other way around. They need to stop using excess force on people and the disrespect won’t happen. It needs to be mutual respect. There won’t be a Black Lives Matter if it was not for their actions.
“There won’t be a Black Lives Matter if it was not for their actions.”
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Oy. Yes, if it weren’t for police you wouldn’t have violent black gangs. ::eyeroll::
Black Lives Matter? you mean that melatonin dysphoric whiteguy who like Rachael Dolenz despise the color of their skin.started that social group that meet and discuss current events.
And for the record there are thug cops who deserve to be slapped with a heave dose of constitutional thumping to their alleged privilege.
I just think it’s a little nuts to be so deranged about the police that a person would hold up any sleazy black supremacist group as an aggrieved party - the *real* victims.
Then again, there used to be those who claimed the “Black Panthers” as the true heroes and law enforcement as the real villains. Everything old is new again, I guess.
What a stupid statement
“They need to stop using excess force on people and the disrespect won’t happen.”
As far as I can see cops these days are much nicer than when I was coming up in the 60s. They would go upside your head then and get away with it.
"Everything old is new again." Indeed!
"Those that can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire....
COPS: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY!
Our problem is less with the police than with their political bosses, the Doug Neidermeiers of the world
who have taken us into the dangerous netherworld of a POLICE STATE! Be afraid. BE VERY AFRAID.
https://www.brighteon.com/6022953732001
Not likely too many are keeping track of what is going on in Canada but it appears our police services have also been emasculated. White liberals (with a handful of actual natives) have been blocking trains across the country with no action from the Ontario Police or the RCMP. In Victoria, last week, government workers (Victoria is a government town) were harassed and blocked from offices and police were nowhere to be seen. One arrest did occur where an honest citizen tried to remove a barricade. He was arrested for obstruction.
Way back, used to get WPIX (NYC independent station) on cable. One of the PSAs was a fireman turning off a hydrant, disappointing all the urban children, then screwing on an 8"(?) cap that was basically a partial sprinkler, giving the kids something more interactive, while keeping up the system water pressure.
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