Interesting question. If I save you from a burning building but hang out with your sister or mother's rapist as if no crime happened am I still a hero? I think cops have a hard job (got one brother on the job and one in the academy) and I acknowledge they are put in situations none of us want to be in. However I also acknowledge the vast majority wanted a job with good pay and a good pension. If even half of them truly believed in protecting and serving the community instead of being a coercive apparatus for the powers that be there would be far less dirty cops. They know they can do whatever they want and no one is gonna touch them. Seriously think about Sandra Bland, whether or not you believed she killed herself in prison she got arrested for merely looking like she had an attitude? Does that bs sound right to you?
If you saved my life, you would ALWAYS be my hero! If you were forced to work with my mother's rapist, l could not hold you accountable for them being a rapist. I would implore you to report them, but if it would jeapordize your safety, l would find an alternative means to bring my mother's rapist to justice. Even if it jeopardized my own safety. I know first hand there are crooked and abusive cops. I have filed a police brutality/theft report for my then husband who was roughed up and jailed. (the asshole thief cop was also Black) and it went nowhere, except they sent us a check to cover the theft and a promise we wouldn't sue. I also linked you to the NPR segment about the NYPD cop who wore a wire for months to expose police corruption in NYC. He was harassed 24/7 and his Superior tried to have him falsely institutionalized. So l know. Sandra was pulled over for failing to indicate. At that point if that were me, l would know l was dealing with a dick, and no SM Justice Warriors were going to protect me from this dick if l got smart with him. She was pissed - rightly so - but like a man bigger than me, lm not testing him. I'm just not. l would put my ciggarette out and not argue. Fair or not, l will shut my mouth and plead my case in traffic court.
Well I have to respectfully disagree because under any other circumstances knowledge of a crime and not reporting it makes you an accomplice. It's really hard to view people as heroes when they let good people suffer for no reason. It's not that there are crooked cops its that even the good ones allow them to be crooked. I'm not even talking stealing money from drug dealers or anything like that, truthfully if you have to risk your life to catch them I really don't have a problem with you getting extra to do it. My problem is shit like Tamir Rice where the kid gets killed within two seconds of them interacting with the kid and barely not a single cop calls that shit murder. Literally all civilians are bad and all cops are good. How can you build good relationships with people who see you that way.
I do have some ideas. They include that it would mean we'd have to consistently have a Democratic president and a Democratic senate. Republicans need to lose their political significance. Also, the NRA would need to go through major changes or be dismantled completely. Guns would also have to be remade in a means where people are immobilized rather than killed. Instead of having a bullet in front of the gun, we could have some sort of magnetic material to replace it. My proposals are unlikely to happen. Maybe we'll have martial law instead.
Agreed! I think it's obvious that most police officers are good, but what really bothers me are the people (and powers that be) who refuse to call out the bad apples when it's obvious. In NYC especially to call out a cop suspected of wrongdoing immediately lands you on some bullshit "anti-cop/criminal sympathizer" list. My thing is that no one is above the law including police officers. Police culture has long been a problem,but folks were still giving them the benefit of the doubt nearly all of the time. Society is now seeing that there is indeed a problem, and now you have some cops, their unions and certain politicians sticking up for bad cops and making anyone else out to be anti-cop. We hear all sort of excuses. Obviously police officers have a tough and often thankless job. However, no one forced them to take the job. If I'm doing unlawful shit at my job... I probably won't have it for long. The huge problem is that there's a serious lack of accountabiliy within the police departments. They often would say they'd like to be respected... That's fine and dandy, but most of us learn as children that you must respect others to get it in return. What they really want is for civilians to be submissive. Just my two cents.
Omg, people are losing it! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...owing-online-argument-Black-Lives-Matter.html Cop shoots dead a BLM supporter who broke into his home, after arguing on Facebook. So much death and murder..it's sickening!
So what about when a crime or murder happens in the neighborhood, people go silent. No one saw "nuthin". Guess that makes them accomplices?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-black-protesters-solution-wake-shooting.html He's calling on BLM protesters to become cops. "Dallas police chief David Brown called on black protesters to become part of the solution and become a cop in the wake of the mass shooting..."
He can call on himself. How many cops has he sniched on in his career? He can also call on the DA's and the justice dept.
People have lost the ability to discern...I don't know if it's the cell-phone radiation or the tattoo ink...but we are one dumb-ass society. Mofos fall for game too easy. At first the police claimed to be pinned down by triangulated firepower from multiple positions. Now.....Ooops It was just one shooter pinning us down simultaneously from multiple positions. Yep....it was this guy -insert ridiculous stereotype of young BM throwing up 40 year old black power sign in Lamont Sanford's Dashiki- all along. They don't care what they tell people,because they know the masses will eat it up like the dogs they are. That shoe-bomber incident is what made me lose faith in our collective psyche. We were told that a trained al qaeda terrorist boarded a plane and tried to LIGHT plastic explosives hidden on his shoes and nobody fell over laughing at such a ridiculous story. What is so hard to believe about that you may ask....well....you can't light plastic explosives. A six week old monkey knows that...but not Americans...Why would a trained terrorist try to light plastic explosives? Who trained him Al Qaeda or Al Green???? That shit was all faked....these goofy tales are used as a barometer to test for stupidity. They didn't even have the respect for our intelligence to tell us he was trying to attach wires to a battery in his shoe..which is what a trained terrorist would have done. They showed us young,supposed BLM members(surely agent provocateurs) using 60's vernacular, shouting"roast the pigs". The only place you hear young Blacks use that lingo is Adam 12 and Sanford and Son reruns. I live by that old saying from our ancestors: "believe only half or what you see and none of what you hear"
Fuck him What has he done with that duty? I served my country honorably with recommendation for my commanding officer. More than what can be said for their twisted version of "Protect and serve"
I don't get this blind devotion to police that some people have it so damn weird. She says called to duty as if accepting the job as cop means you actually follow the ideals, we are shown over and over again that's simply not true. Not only do most of them ignore "the call to duty" they cover up for and stay silent when others violate that call. I guess they'll finally see the truth when more white kids and women are gunned down by cops with zero accountability. Gotta laugh at the call to duty line most people become cops because of the steady pay and pension. The protect and serve line is what they feed the masses to make certain groups feel ok about the brutality.
Sorry if I'm repeating myself but I always thought you were currently employed by the FBI for some reason.