Police r ur friendz, mkay!

[Bill]

There's a lot of police news lately.

The cops who shot the old black lady - 2 plead manslaughter, so you know there was a TON of evidence that they lied, because it's the south, and most trials of cops for cases like that end up in aquittal unless there is opverwhelming evidence of malfeasance.

They must have been really scared, if they pled out.

Then there's the chicago cop who beat up the bartender because he was too drunk to get another drink - he's been charged with eleven more offenses, including "contact with witnesses" which is code for threatening the witnesses.

Turns out there are more videos coming out of chicago cops beating people up...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18353909/

"Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline, who also had to fend charges that his department was out of control amid reports that another videotape showed six officers beat up four businessmen, announced earlier this month that he was retiring."

In detroit cops were stopping people for tickets, then forcing them to have sex to get out of the ticket

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18340889/

"“These are not isolated incidents in the least,” Heath said. “This is an officer, using his position of authority to clearly take advantage.”

The charges also include two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, four counts of extortion and two counts of misconduct in office."

I guess cops figure that in the war on terror they're entitled to a little fun.

[Bill]

Wow, the police just can't catch a break.

Just heard the news - you know that rural NY kid they burnt to death a day or two ago?

The "Cop Killer"?

Turns out he didn't kill a cop.

The cop was killed by another cop. Friendly fire. Fratricide.

I wonder if the original incident that started it all was recorded?

[Mr. Blue]

My experience with police over the years has left me with the impression that there's a really thin line between cop and criminal. Now, I haven't had a lot of dealings with the police, but the few times I have it left me wondering about the psychological profile of a person that wants to be a cop.

It could just be that power corrupts. I had always thought that humans were ill equipped to handle any sort of power...perhaps this is where the problem rests.

Now I'm sure there's plenty of wonderful people that work as cops and I don't mean to offend anyone. However, the next time I get pulled over for a traffic violation (even though this rarely happens), could I please get one of the wonderful people for a change instead of the psycho cop...okay thanks, buh bye.

[Bill]

Sadly, the war on drugs has pretty much degraded our police.

We turned them from injurious crime fighters to moral crime fighters.

But, supposedly they were pretty corrupt before the prohibitions.

Reading about how the police served during the first era of labor unrest is pretty sobering.

Thats something else our country would benfit from - a complete re-examination of the police and courts.

DNA exxonerationof hundreds of prisoners suggests that our police and courts need some help, badly.

[Bill]

Turns out the cop shot to death by another cop in the NY case was killed by a rifle bullet. Light rifle, not a snipers rifle.

That's very sad. I'm sure those guys feel horrible.

There have been several police friendly fire incidents in the last year or two. A side effect of the militarization of the police, I guess.

[Betty Blowtorch]

Thats something else our country would benefit from --
a complete re-examination of the police and courts.

DNA exoneration of hundreds of prisoners suggests
that our police and courts need some help, badly.
Maybe Timothy McVeigh was right.

The American legal system needs to be opened up
and exposed to a complete re-examination.

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[Mr. Blue]

Sadly, the war on drugs has pretty much degraded our police.

We turned them from injurious crime fighters to moral crime fighters.

But, supposedly they were pretty corrupt before the prohibitions.

Reading about how the police served during the first era of labor unrest is pretty sobering.

Thats something else our country would benfit from - a complete re-examination of the police and courts.

DNA exxonerationof hundreds of prisoners suggests that our police and courts need some help, badly.

I still think the root of the problem is power...give a person power and even the meekest individual suddenly starts to glutton themselves on it. So...how the hell do we put people in charge of anything? lol, quite a catch 22 really.

[Betty Blowtorch]

Shhh!! Be vewy quiet.
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I'm going hunting.

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[stefan segal]

Blowtorch...I can project a time when we all might get to that level, although I am holding out for public outcry to put jackboots out of vogue first.

To effect this, I believe the first stage is to come down hard on anyone using a generalized sense of fear as an excuse to fuck up someone else's rights, should have a "C" branded on their forehead to mark them for the cowards they are.

This will make it cowardess unfashionable.

A less violent way would be to laugh those fear-mongering cowards cheney and his butt-boy butch off the stage every time they attempt to scare old ladies.

Stefan