Any pointing out of this by me will be viewed as purely self-serving.
I would like to point out that anyone who in all earnestness maintains that corruption of police forces is exclusively (or even essentially) a modern, black, and major-metropolitan phenomenon is no serious -nay! not even a casual- student of the history of the topic.
Such an one could easily gain the rudiments of a clue by reading two fine books of "historical" fiction by the fine historian Caleb Carr: The Alienist and Angel of Darkness. Such a slight and enjoyable expenditure of time and effort would amply reward the reader with the beginnings of an understanding of the endemic nature of police corruption.
The reader could then quite profitably pursue more general and detailed knowledge of the subject, branching out to encompass not only the mercenary and political corruption of metropolitan police forces but also the histories of similar corruption of small-town police forces nationwide. As an example, to get such a reader started, consider the penetration of such forces by the Ku Klux Clan, from 1880 to 1980... One could also look into the current influence of methamphetamine networks on such small forces.
The field is quite richly detailed and quite, ah, polychromatic.
One need only look, with eyes undimmed by melanin-selective filters.
I would further posit that one who *makes* so false a claim as defined above, yet who is NOT pathetically ignorant of the history of the subject, is almost certainly one who pursues an odious agenda of propaganda and discord.
For the Mods, an observation and a question:
There seems to be a building wave of black-bashing -some oblique, some direct- going on here on FR. How long shall this be permitted to continue? It galls me that some of my family here are being pestered by small-minded, shriveled-soul buffoons. It wounds many very good FReepers, it rouses my ire, it demeans this great site, and befouls conservatism in general. I wish to register with you my concern in this matter. Thank you.
RKBA (and others):
Many of you are already aware of the wave of unpleasantry to which I refer, above. I am beginning to think that we, as FReepers, might need to initiate a bit of self-surveillance and, as far as it lies within our powers, a bit of self-policing. This puling racist grotesquery needs to be crushed. What say you?
Yes.
This glaringly racist tripe wave is bothering me greatly.
Something needs to be done.
And the repeat pic posting troll also needs to be prosecuted as he's stalking Mhking, cyborg, and others as well as committing internet harassment which is prosecutable under law.
The two are intertwined and linked.
I agree with you. Bias stinks.
Point noted (after I looked up all the big words :-). I'll keep an eye out. And now back to bed with the owrk ... just kidding!
"One could also look into the current influence of methamphetamine networks on such small forces."
Very true, but most Americans are unaware of this.
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There seems to be a building wave of black-bashing -some oblique, some direct- going on here on FR. How long shall this be permitted to continue? "
I hadn't noticed this myself, but I trust you well enough to keep an eye open for it in the future.
Any pointing out of this by me will be viewed as purely self-serving.
Well, that should scare the living heck out of all those keyboard racists! I mean we can't have Free Republc be representative of the of the feelings of the country we live in, now can we.
Let's make everyone on Free Republic run around with a 20 pound chip on their shoulders.
I saw much truth in those articles. As far as Rodney King goes, he is a dreg of society.
Sue me!
One can go back 100 years,even 160 years,to the beginnings of police forces here, and see that they were a joke back then and even more corrupt. The corrupt Irish policemen, in N.Y.C., who were run but Boss Tweed and the Irish gangs out of Five Points, for example, make anything that happens today, look like a teddy bears' picnic.
Then let them mutter about corruption, and the roots thereof.
FRegards,