yep- another tragedy- however, how about the newspapers start running the myriad stories of police beign shot at, killed, maimed, or the myriad stories of police helping people, going out of hteir way to help, even giving folks money from time to time who are down and out-?
How about running stories about cops running into burning buildings to save people? Putting their lives at risk to save pets even?
How about running the multitude of stories showing police safely apprehending VIOLENT criminals and saving lives I n the process while putting their own lives in danger to do so?
Oh hell no- It’s far more gratifying to IGNORE the innumerable acts of bravery, kindness, courage, self sacrifice and to glom onto a FEW bad cases and make it seem like the whole damn police forces are corrupt killers hell bent on racism
If the cop management didn’t frequently use them as revenue agents, the positive actions would be way more promenent.
They have all that Bob. It’s TV shows like Cops, and a whole bunch of others. That stuff gets pretty big coverage with the TV crowd.
Post them, I like seeing good cop stories too. I don’t like seeing good cops screwed by bad cops.
Doesn’t invalidate the bad cop stories or the need to see everything going on. Just because you may not want to see both worlds.
Post good stories. don’t rip those who post the other ones.
“Oh hell no- It’s far more gratifying to IGNORE the innumerable acts of bravery, kindness, courage, self sacrifice and to glom onto a FEW bad cases and make it seem like the whole damn police forces are corrupt killers hell bent on racism”
So we’re just supposed to “write off” these people who didn’t deserve to die because “on the whole” cops are “good guys?” Sorry, no sale, my experiences with LEO’s leads me to the inescapable conclusion that the vast majority of them are so jaded by their daily activities that they are unable to interact with their fellow citizens in a rational manner. And, I hasten to ad, that I haven’t had a traffic ticket ( or even a stop) for more than 30 years. Just go try to file a legitimate complaint against a cop and see how you are treated. I did, and it was the most disgusting experience of my entire life, beginning with being formally threatened with legal action simply by reason of lodging the complaint.
No one ignores them, it’s obvious that you don’t pay attention at all. Even this ping list pings us to good stories.
But you know, this is not the time or the place. A man has just been shot and killed, carelessly. A “mistake” that should not have been made. Lots of problems with this scenario! Let us discuss this.
Unless it's black on white crime/killing....or crimes/killing of the police.