(July 19, 2016 at 12:30 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(July 18, 2016 at 9:30 am)Rhythm Wrote: Here's a suggestion for improvement...the police should kill people less often. We should pay more, expect more, and demand more accountability. Maybe they should be heavily up-armored and de-armed. Maybe we should decriminalize those victimless things which account for the large majority of risks both to officers and the people they shoot?
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This is a very good start, and more diplomatic than what I'm thinking.
My suggestion is to criminalize crimes done by cops. It's not so much that some cops have killed innocent black guys that has everyone steamed. It's that these fuckers consistently walk away almost entirely unpunished. . . time and time and time again, we see video of clear misconduct-- manslaughter at least, and probably murder. And off they go to live their lives.
I can't understand how EVERY member of these victims' families, and every friend they have who can get their hands on a gun, don't take justice into their own hands. I'm not black, but ask me what would happen if a cop shot my kid right in front of me for a traffic violation, for carrying a toy gun, or whatever. I'd burn down the world if I could, and only my own death would ever bring an end to it.
I think American cops are cowardly. I'm pretty sure that the RCMP in Canada would never, EVER, fire on a target, unless they knew 100% that they were in absolute mortal danger.
Take the guns off the streets and then progress would happen. Take the guns away from the bloods, the crips, the Ayran nation, the mexican gangs, the yakuza and the Triads. Unfortunately, guns are big business in the United States and it would never happen in my lifetime simple because generations upon generations have grown up in a world where having a gun is like owning a bible and just as dangerous. If the change has to be made, it has to be in the next generation or so, where parents can actually educate their children in the dangers of having a gun, but since they educate them in a way that owning a gun is a necessity, that change will not be made soon. Guns needs to be wiped out just like religion.
