Originally posted by Stoic
If the Police don't cool it with this type of behavior, they may be in for a war. Back in the late 80s and 90s, citizens in California began targeting Police. They were called Cop Killers. There really is only so much that people will put up with, and the abuse from Officers is on the rise as we speak.
Just last week a man was beaten severely in the streets of NYC, and a couple days later an 18 year old kid was gunned down in his house for possession of weed.
Killing cops are another extreme. I like the idea of publicizing their brutality though the media, but properly identifying them. This holds them more accountable. I think that they should also lose their badge and be released from the police force.
There is a good amount of gray area though. One thing that makes it easier for officers to relinquish personal responsibility from these actions is that they act under the name of the law and are nameless "agents of justice." This makes me wonder if the idea of a police enforced state is inherently flawed. Perhaps this is just because humans themselves are flawed.
Originally posted by dadudemon
I want police bots that run on an AI.
Of course, that's in a perfect world here we eliminate human error. However, bots can be hacked or tampered with in ways a human can't.
Meh, and Skynet.
But I think 9 out of 10 of law enforcement are great people and the 1 out of 10 ruin it for everyone.
I agree! Android police officers would eliminate this issue completely.
Originally posted by dadudemon
What a loud mouth who makes a few good points but is pretty much wrong about everything.
If he actually knew what the Police did, he'd change his tune. Maybe he should spend a few months at a police station reviewing various cases and the happenings of just a section of a medium size city?
These stories of yours are interesting. I want to know more!
Do you have more stories? The one about the weed bust sounds cool.
The best I can deliver is the following:
I was driving on a Toll Highway at around 70 MPH. A highway patrolman was merging onto the highway. I was about to pass him and he turns his lights on. I start to slow down as to not pass him because I thought he was responding to an emergency call. He sticks his arm out of the window and points in the direction to pull over to the right in front of him.
So I sped up to pass him so I could pull over to the right (it was a two-lane highway and we in the US merge from the right into the left...so I was passing his left).
Well, that was my mistake. Since he was driving around 60-65 and I around 70 before he turned his lights on, I had to speed up to pass him. He "clocked" me, at that point, and I registered as going 78 (It was probably closer to 74 since he didn't use his radar but "pace" measured my speed). It really pissed me off that he did something like that and I fell for it like a chump.
The speed limit was 70 and it is a "no tolerance" zone. Meaning, you can get a $110 citation for driving 1 MPH over or under the speed limits.
When he approached, I kept my eyes forward and my hands on the wheel. I was very calm. Why would I do those things? To keep the officer from being nervous about where your hands are: they notice these things and greatly appreciate it. Also, being relaxed but not TOO relaxed makes the officers at ease. They want respect so call them "sir" or "ma'am" and "no sir", etc.
When he asked me, "Do you know why I pulled you over?" I feigned as though it was painful to admit, "Man...is my tail light out???"
Nope. It sure wasn't.
He asked for my license and insurance. Then he walked back to my car.
After running my record and seeing that the only citation I have ever had was from not wearing a seatbelt as a 17 year old PASSENGER, he came back with a warning that would NOT show up on my record and explained it was my speed that he clocked (he didn't clock me, he paced me as he marked on the warning ticket).
He could have written me a ticket. I would like to think he did not write the citation because of a combination:
1. How douchy it was to pull me over after directing me to pass him and then lying that he clocked me when he could not have clocked me while trying to merge.
2. That I didn't act like an entitled and irritated jackass.
Someone please tell me why my speeding ticket costs $594. Granted I was going 90 on a 70 mph, but this just seems over the top and unfair. This kind of money can put a person on the streets.
this happens far more often in poor black communities I haved lived in one when i first came to usa and cops beat up people they arrest 70% of the time there.