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Anonymous #28
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Re: What are your honest opinions on the police? [Re: Anonymous #26]
#19374372 - 01/05/14 07:09 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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I don't hate the police I just hate some of the laws they are paid to enforce...
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Anonymous #28
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Re: What are your honest opinions on the police? [Re: Anonymous #28]
#19374386 - 01/05/14 07:12 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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most people that HATE the police are quick to call them when an emergency happens....oops little johnny got shot in the front yard....call the police even though i hate them....you need to find the killer of my son...I hate you but would you please help me because I would never be able to by myself....
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Anonymous #29
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Re: What are your honest opinions on the police? [Re: Anonymous #28]
#19374533 - 01/05/14 07:48 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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I am not glad when they die and don't wish them harm mostly.
I think most of them are assholes. Most don't have any common sense. They would give some one a ticket just to be an ass for example if there car registration expired. Come go catch a real criminal that hurts someone that did not deserve it. Instead it seems they drive around half the day looking to give out stupid tickets to people that are not really criminals. Heck if some ones house around here got broken into they would right a report but not take fingerprints. That would take up to much of their time. They would rather give some one a ticket for just smoking something that was illegal on paper and was not doing any harm, leave them be and go catch a real bad guy.
Are you glad when they die? Do you despise them and wish them nothing but harm?
Or do you not care that they have to enforce drug laws?
what are your honest thoughts on the police?
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Anonymous #30
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Re: What are your honest opinions on the police? [Re: Anonymous #1]
#19394645 - 01/09/14 05:04 PM (10 years, 21 days ago) |
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I have a bunch of mixed feelings. On one hand I follow pages like Cop Block and Filming Cops. Every single day they post stories of horrible evil sickening things (that they almost always get away with.) It makes me distrust the police. How many of them are like that? How many of them are just psychopaths looking to pick on people? I would say I fear the police. I lived in the most dangerous city in the US in 2012. I was always more nervous walking past police than walking past groups of shady people.
On the other hand I have met a handful of police who seemed like good people. I'm really torn between these two feelings usually. I'm either checking my rear view so nervously I could crash after I pass a cop, or I'm imagining that it's probably a cool guy who knows I'm just headed home from work and won't harass me.
The only time I would be happy about cops dying is if I knew they did something horrible.
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Anonymous #31
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Re: What are your honest opinions on the police? [Re: Anonymous #1]
#19395516 - 01/09/14 07:29 PM (10 years, 21 days ago) |
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It's great when cops give you a hand, and it's a very special experience to talk to a person who's committed, mind and body, to lofty ideals of justice and fairness.
Unfortunately, that doesn't describe a lot of cops or cop encounters. It's a line of work that is very seductive to exactly the type of people who shouldn't be police: insecure bullies and power addicts who enjoy the opportunity to push people around with impunity. They can be very menacing.
I have much more respect for the Sheriff's department than unelected law enforcement, however. If a community is going to be policed in an organized fashion by a paramilitary force then it should be consensual and democratic. Otherwise, it more resembles a military occupation. It's extremely frustrating to live in a community where the police routinely and flagrantly violate ethics and behave as if they are above the law, because there is simply nothing anybody can do about it. They are basically a small army, taking tribute, regulating people's private lives, and there's nothing you can do about it. For whatever good they are able to do, police precincts are not run in a transparent or democratic way, and I take serious issue with that. I live near Oakland and while there's a legitimate need for strong law enforcement in that city, the surrounding areas are massively over-policed by their own precincts, and the police in Oakland itself are tainted with shooting after shooting of defenseless citizens by triggerhappy cops. And this is a wild guess, but I think San Francisco's cops running drugs from the evidence locker probably do bigger business than the dealers and smugglers whose drugs they confiscate. It's unbelievable to me that the voters have literally no way to deal with these problems: all we can do is complain loudly and hope that somebody, somewhere does the right fucking thing and fires some of these guys even if it's kind of a headache. And it's not going to get better, because enough people who aren't targeted don't notice that there's a problem.
Edited by Anonymous (01/09/14 07:55 PM)
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Anonymous #32
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Re: What are your honest opinions on the police? [Re: Anonymous #31]
#19970595 - 05/11/14 03:30 AM (9 years, 8 months ago) |
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good and bad cops exist, just like normal people 
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