(March 6, 2015 at 11:45 am)Losty Wrote: Further south from Florida? :p
I will never understand the people who say they don't care if the police violate their rights because they're law abiding citizens. What? If you're a law abiding citizen (and even if you're not for that matter), don't you think you deserve to have your rights respected by the people you pay to serve and protect you?
No, no, it's nothing like that. I care very much that the police do their job professionally and correctly.
I am making note that law abiding citizens do not often have their rights violated by police. It does happen and it should be acted on, but it is much more rare than what the non-law abiding crowd sees. Of this I am quite apathetic. If a thug that's attacked a little old lady for her security check gets one or two extra whacks with the billy club than is called for, I recognize it as wrong, but I'm still more apathetic than I should be.
A cop that only makes one citation a year is not necessarily a good cop, and cop that makes 250 citations a year is not necessarily a bad cop. If he is following his training and department rules then the beef is with the department/ local government, not the individual cop.
The link provided does not show any examples of misbehaving cops on the one page I could see without removing the spam/mal-ware filters. I'm interested in seeing the actual claims that are referred to here. Care to paste one or two of the better examples?
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