Ferguson and the Justice Department Report

[Losty]

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.

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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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I will have to disagree. I think most law abiding citizens don't know what their rights are and probably have them violated a lot more often than they realize. Did you know that a police officer cannot make you strip down to your boxer shorts while he searches your car? My friend in high school didn't. He also didn't know he was allowed to refuse to allow his car to be searched in the first place. He was an advance placement honor student just like me. From a decently well off family. His parents did not file a complaint because they're black and it was South Georgia.

As far as the hide tag stuff, what are you asking me for an example of again? I don't know what you're talking about.