Cops my two cents

[Ry]

Guess, who has killed more Americans than all the street gangs put together, all the terrorist attacks since 2001, and even more than the second war in Iraq? The US police force is the largest gang in blue with the highest murder rate. Police shoot people’s dogs, children, and really whoever they want as long as it’s not a rich person and nothing happens. They usually get put on paid leave. Police can do strip searches, frame people, assault people, illegally break into houses, search cars without a warrant, pepper spray people, beat on handcuffed victims who are already in custody, taser people to death, run people off the road, steal property, and get paid to do it all. Now legally they are not supposed to be doing any of these things. But actually they are doing all of these things and nothing happens to them. Rarely do the police find any wrong doing when they investigate themselves. America has more people in prison than any other country in the world. You can go to jail for just about anything. And yet the crooks from Wallstreet who swindled billions of dollars didn’t go to jail. The Neocons from the Bush administration who deceive the nation into a war didn’t go to jail. The prison system is a business. The judicial system is a business. They have nothing to do with justice and everything to do with generating profits based loosely on a theme.

[Rio]

A few common themes that keep reoccuring in these 'police killing citizen' stories should be noted.

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1. Failure to follow procedure and police incompetence

Carter mistakenly identified his location as being in San Antonio, the call went out to the wrong police department.

Police stalk and isolate "suspects"

He followed the car to the apartment complex

3. Ridiculous claims of unarmed individuals, often slight in stature, attacking large, heavily armed police officers for no apparent reason

Also, verifiable evidence is rarely presented and there is a general lack of credibity of the police's version of events

Redus managed to get hold of Carter's police baton and started beating on the officer

4. Blaming the victim

At no time during the incident did the suspect identify himself and there is no evidence that the officer had any knowledge of his student status or his place of residence

5. Unfortunate, but convenient mechanical failure

University squad cars do come equipped with dashboard cams — but "it had fallen off the evening before the incident," the university said, blaming a change in the weather for causing the glue to fail.

6. Comment sections of articles that report the killings flooded with defense of police's use deadly force and cheerleading the killing of Americans

Whether the pro-police comments are a perception management operation or merely bloodthirsty spectators is currently up for debate.

stonepipe 2 Comment collapsed by the community

Alright! Here's a story we can all agree on. Good shooting Officer!

52 votes#1 - Mon Dec 9, 2013 6:32 PM EST

[Zardoz]

The integrity is so far gone its ridiculous. Cops would have to abstain from 9/10 of their tickets and begin a PR campaign to explain the constitution to the people.

Win hearts and minds?