meams said:

Did someone in here really just try to say that the Police Force was unconstitutional?



Its idiocy like that which ruins our cause.  The people need a voice, but it can not be a voice of ignorance.  Now, I havent read the constituion all the way through.  The police may very well be unconstitutional.  But I think someone would've noticed & said something by now...

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The police is definitely unconstitutional, but they've scared us into believing we need them.

The correct solution would be just to expand the sheriff's department, which is DIFFERENT from the police. Sheriffs are locally elected to enforce the law and hire deputies, but the police departments are nothing but taxpayer-funded gangs with pretty uniforms and expensive equipment. They aren't accountable to the citizenship they supposedly protect, which is why this bullshit keeps happening and getting worse.

Don't call me an idiot for pointing out what everybody else is too scared to think about.

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You only have my word that the police department is unconstitutional, but I think if you do the reading on the constitution and the history of the police force in this country you'll see that I'm right.

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Tchan909 said:

and this country's laws were solely executed by sheriffs until the nineteenth century.

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Tchan909 said:

You're asking me to prove a negative. Police departments aren't constitutionally defined or protected. How can I cite the part of the constitution that doesn't protect police departments?

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The first local modern police department established in the United States was the Boston Police Department in 1838, followed by the New York City Police Department in 1845. Early on, police were not respected by the community, as corruption was rampant.

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DieCommie said:

Tchan909 said:

You're asking me to prove a negative. Police departments aren't constitutionally defined or protected. How can I cite the part of the constitution that doesn't protect police departments?

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So the police are not unconstitutional then.  You don't understand how the constitution works.

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love2shpongleIRL said:

I understand what he's getting at, police are not in the constitution therefore they are not protected. They need to be mentioned explicitly for it to be unconstitutional though.

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