(March 6, 2015 at 1:36 pm)Brakeman Wrote: 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?
My post here has excerpts taken directly from the Department of Justice's report on the matter which show police malfeasance.
This is the Newsweek Article that shows the 15 Most Outrageous Examples of police misconduct from that DoJ report.
And this is the actual DoJ report. From the Attorney General Eric Holder.
I am not sure how much more information I can provide. You seem to be ignoring the excerpts that I have posted. You also seem to be extrapolating and maybe you are thinking that I am talking about all police everywhere? I am specifically talking about the Ferguson police department and the county court system.
I agree, in most places, law abiding citizens do not have much to fear from the police. But in Ferguson, if you are a black person, it seems whether you were a law abiding citizen or not, you had every reason to fear the police.
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