(06-10-2020, 04:35 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: (06-10-2020, 04:21 PM)Jags Wrote: Shouldn’t a 75 year old man be “adult” enough to listen to basic instructions? Police clearing the street. Yeah, let’s hold our ground. Seriously, what else to you expect.
A good portion of this “brutality” BS Wouldn’t be an issue if people just listened to an officer and complied to sort out whatever it is or accept getting arrested for whatever may have been done.
Sadly, I’m informed I’m wrong because of rare cases of true “bad cops”. For crying out loud, “COPS” and “Live PD” have been pulled off air. Just wow!
It's unfortunately not BS.
41 NYPD cops are being prosecuted for assault right now by state prosecutors for their actions during these recent protests alone. You don't think that number is too high?
What would be the acceptable number?
What's the acceptable number of deaths due to improper action by police?
What if we could make that number smaller by requiring cops to have more hours of training than we do a barber?
Do you know how many cops in America have been formally charged with domestic assault?
(hint: it's a high number) Yet 28% of those formally charged with abusing a family member are still policing our streets.
It's not BS. There are too many incidents of this crap and it's VERY clear the public has had enough of it.
Reform will be coming to many of our police departments soon and there is zero reason to lament any attempt to improve the vetting and training of the brave men and women we are intended to trust behind that badge.
If you think vetting and training are fine right now, you shouldn't have a problem with making those things even better.
If it's "just a few bad apples" then great. We'll have fewer [BLEEP] bad apples soon. They never should have been allowed to wear the badge in the first place, and we can choose and train their replacements more carefully.
41 cops under investigation is too many. I’ll agree with you there. But it also makes up for less than 1% of the force. I truly hate to say this, but [BLEEP] happens. Sad but true (great song btw). But the same goes for 100% of every other occupation out there. And let’s not pretend the bad apples are only white people. They’re out there regardless of race. You’re gonna have [BLEEP] heads in every field. Statistics will be statistics. No matter how many bad apples you eliminate there will still be some out there. What percentage is acceptable? Idk. It’s always going to be there no matter what vetting you do.
In that regard, where do we stop? Do we take away every single scholarship and grant so every American teen can have the same opportunity? Do we take away more stuff? So it’s all even keel? But something tells me the results will be well, the same.
I took 30 days away from this site along with media and come back to find a [BLEEP] ton of crap. It makes me want to take another 90-365 days of seeing the news. Add this to the economy and Corona and a religious man would be thinking they’ll be seeing their maker soon. I’m ready to back off again to live in peace and not get pissed at the headlines. But it doesn’t make it go away. But from what I was able to catch up on, I’m left to think “careful what you wish for”. I’m seeing the aftermath and numerous people fighting for racial inequality, freedom of speech and justice while the other half is getting canned for the free speech they said years ago, police are apparently all bad and should be abolished, history should be replaced and now as a white man I now have a dream that one day my little white daughter can grow up in a peaceful nation. One that can see another human as they are. I give two [BLEEP] about skin color. But I’ll be damned if I’m gonna feel bad for who I am. What I’ve earned and worked for. Sure, say that isn’t what’s it about. I can only speculate of what some of the protesters have been looking for. It doesn’t add up. And I say “careful what you wish for”. You want to defund LE and such. Let’s See who the winners of that are. Race war? Is that what’s trying to happen? Idk. I hope I’m wrong. I really do
