FFS America...

[thesummerqueen]

You also aren't run by the moral majority, who hate drugs and MJ, my love.

[5thHorseman]

Yes we are, actually. Difference is ours aren't retards, but they are all anti drugs, the Lib Dems less so. Credit where it is due, the people who get to the top of our political parties are smart fuckers, they're not the Santorums and Gingrich's of the world.

[thesummerqueen]

[heavy sigh]

When am I moving in with you again?

[5thHorseman]

erm, Wednesday's ok with me.

Suppose what i'm saying is ours are not extremists like yours. You never get the middle in America, it's just centre right or Pat Robertson

[thesummerqueen]

I try to hold out hope, but you know, this isn't the first time you hear about something absolutely crazy going on with the police - in the same general area of the country, they beat some dude on the supposition that he was "drunk" when he was really having a seizure, and the video camera caught them laughing about it.

[Jackalope]

I try to hold out hope, but you know, this isn't the first time you hear about something absolutely crazy going on with the police - in the same general area of the country, they beat some dude on the supposition that he was "drunk" when he was really having a seizure, and the video camera caught them laughing about it.

Yeah, as if beating a guy because he was drunk would be so justifiable. Never mind having a laugh about it afterwards.

I often wonder why we as a society allow such people to work in law enforcement.

[paintpooper]

I try to hold out hope, but you know, this isn't the first time you hear about something absolutely crazy going on with the police - in the same general area of the country, they beat some dude on the supposition that he was "drunk" when he was really having a seizure, and the video camera caught them laughing about it.

Yeah, as if beating a guy because he was drunk would be so justifiable. Never mind having a laugh about it afterwards.

I often wonder why we as a society allow such people to work in law enforcement.

We don't, we try to speak up against the police, but it is shoved under the rug then they approve MORE police funding, cause we have to protect the CHILDREN! Think about the children!! (We need them to grow up so we can debt rape them too!!!)
I want my local politicians to explain to me logically how more police improve the safety of our "children". I want, facts, logical arguments, and a rational flow of information and reasoning, on exactly how spending more money on a police force increases the safety of children.
I think they will have a hard time.

[The Grand Nudger]

Greater police protection would make things safer for our children..if they weren't so busy doing whatever the fuck it is they do when they don't respond...lol.

For awhile in St. Pete, the average response time for a 911 call involving a possible murder was longer than the response time for possible tampering with GTE's telecomm boxes.
(JABIL, Raytheon, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, and MacDill AFB)

[paintpooper]

Greater police protection would make things safer for our children..if they weren't so busy doing whatever the fuck it is they do when they don't respond...lol.

For awhile in St. Pete, the average response time for a 911 call involving a possible murder was longer than the response time for possible tampering with GTE's telecomm boxes.
(JABIL, Raytheon, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, and MacDill AFB)

The murder already happened. How do the police do anything?
We need a preventive police force, not a reactionary one which we have. Then they could truly help the children.

Well in St.Pete I could tell you where some police funds come from

Police Protection is an oxy-moron. When do they protect you or I?

I have been studying crime in my city, I have yet to find a "real" random act on violence, only time it is random is when drugs and or alcohol is involved.
So the drugs/alcohol are the problem, not the people (rape, murder, assault theft). Most crimes seem to happen at night on weekends after bars close, and a lot downtown. So I would have to infer alcohol causes high crime rates.
So all the bullshit of the police protecting me is just that, bullshit, I'm worried about the random drunk guy who brakes into my house (which happens a lot here), not the thug gang member.

[kılıç_mehmet]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...95937.html

Stephen Slevin was driving along a rural highway in southern New Mexico in August 2005 when traffic police pulled him over and arrested him on suspicion of drink-driving, along with a string of other motoring offences.

By the time all of the charges against him were dismissed and Mr Slevin was released from custody, it was 2007. For reasons that remain unclear, officials had forced him to spend the intervening two years in solitary confinement.

During the ordeal, he claims to have been denied access to basic washing facilities for months at a time. He'd lost a third of his body weight, grown a beard down to his chest and was suffering from bed sores. Prison officials had also ignored his pleas to see a dentist, forcing him to pull out his own tooth. They declined other requests for attention, including an audience with a mental health professional. He duly became delirious and says that by the time of his release he'd "been driven mad".

Wow. Seeing in movies that American embassies do whatever that is in their power to save a single American citizen, it baffles me to hear that they treat them as such back in the US.