Are Cops Racist?
Not if you ask Heather Mac Donald. The War On Cops:
http://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/book-review-the-war...
More articles by Heather, many focusing on The Ferguson Effect in a purely objective manner:
http://www.nationalreview.com/author/heather-mac-donald
The L.A. Times editorial page had a bunch of Letters to the Editor yesterday about the Claremont free speech uproar. I guess there was also one at Berkely.
Several letters suggested Heather Mac Donald (and of course Atty. General Sessions) is just a misunderstood supporter of law and order.
From my point of view, asking if cops are racist is no different than asking if Hitler was anti-Semitic. Cops are also psychotic, bloodthirsty criminals who rank in the top five, as a profession, of every type of social dysfunction:
Spousal abuse:
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who...
Drug and alcohol abuse:
https://www.12keysrehab.com/blog/drug-addiction-in-law-enforcement/
Divorce:http://www.livestrong.com/article/263455-top-five-jobs-with-high-chance-...
Is there any doubt that steroid abuse is rampant in the ranks of law enforcement? The reason cops are not required to submit to drug tests is because too many cops would fail.
Conclusion: We don't need more bad cops with drug, alcohol and roid rage problems carrying guns. Disarm cops and require monthly drug tests.
That's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Comments
Had a cop jerk my middlegrandson out of his car,
throw him on the ground, cuff him,and leave him there for 30 minutes. Lawyer wanted to sue, grandson didn't. This was 3 or 4 years ago. Long story short, the same cop was just reprimanded for steroid use. Between the war on drugs and rotten cops, black or white I wouldn't give you a plug nickle for any of them.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I Went To Jail
for sitting down and minding my own business:
http://michaelkohlhaas.org/wp/2016/09/02/somebodys-lying-to-somebody-abo...
My neighbor, a 71 year old woman in a wheel chair, got a ticket for sitting down in her wheel chair. Sgt. Walker, a black officer who hates everybody on the wrong side of the Blue Divide, stated that there are too many people on Skid Row with disabilities to make an exception to the law for people with disabilities.
Hitler would be proud of Sgt. Walker.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
The question of disarming police is difficult to answer.
In the UK, where there is reasonably good gun law enforcement, many police do not wear's firearms. The are special squads that do, like the "flying squads' somewhat similar to SWAT. Most homicides in UK are from knife wounds and blunt force trauma.
In a nation where more than half the population owns guns, disarming police seems to make them sitting ducks. Much of this police violence theoretically could be screened on application to Police Forces or Police Academies. Antisocial traits should disqualify applicants from membership.
Too Many Cops
Too many "bad apples" have been hired under the Democratic/Obama expansion of police departments. It is too late for screening.
American cops would only be sitting ducks if they went barging in to a 911 response call like a bull in a China shop.
They could monitor the situation from their squad car and call for armed backup if actually confronted by an armed suspect. Kevlar lined helmets and body armor would protect good cops who did the job right. It can be done.
Mandatory drug and alcohol testing is essential. Shorter hours and mandatory time outs, with counseling, following stressful encounters.
Every cop who discharges his gun should be given 30 days off with no pay or half pay, and psychiatric counseling. There has to be a penalty for wrongfully discharging a firearm. If an unarmed person is killed or wounded, automatic discharge. No exceptions. No excuses.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Any cop who has more than one charge of
excessive violence against him/her should have their guns removed from them.
Any cop who lies on their reports, including ones that back them up, should be charged with perjury and dismissed from their jobs.
We have heard about this in too many cases. After they submit their reports, a video comes out afterward and shows that what the cops say isn't true.
After this happens a few times, I think the rest of the cops would get the message and clean up their act.
One more thing that would force them to clean house is any money paid out to people and family members who had been violently arrested, or unarmed when shot, the money needs to come from the police departments someway.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
I agree with your comments
but unless asset forfeiture is repealed, police departments would just confiscate more money, cars and homes to make for budgetary losses.
We have mandatory drug testing for our military.
Why not cops?
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
And Americans On Welfare
Who test lower than the national average:
https://thinkprogress.org/what-7-states-discovered-after-spending-more-t...
Why is it more important to drug test welfare recipients than cops? Maybe because there is no question more cops would not pass drug tests than welfare recipients?
How about mandatory drug tests for politicians and judges?
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
How many people who are barely making ends meet
have enough money left at the end of the month to be able to buy pot?
I know that I couldn't afford it if it was legal here.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Specials and military discounts.
plus I use a bong to lessen the amount of pot I use on a daily basis.
I barely make it, and summer vacation is rough because my kids are growing teens who need a lot of food.
I probably will have to leave portland next year anyway, because I can't afford another rent increase and if I want to move in with my so I'll lose my assistance for rent...
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
I've always been
of the opinion that Way too many cops come from the ranks of 9th grade bullies.
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cannabis
Police officers shouldn't be tested for cannabis.
Neither should anyone else.
In fact, a good case can be made for encouraging police officers to use a bit of cannabis. It's the shit they're using now -- uppers and 'roids -- which need to be purged from our police ranks ASAP.
Thank Cat, at least we don't have legal Pervitin any more!!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Mandatory Cannabis Use Is Cool
The only side effect from Cannabis is the munchies. More cops should hang out at 7/11 eating doughnuts and giggling.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
There were protests during when Trump was sworn in
and of course they turned violent after the police showed up in their riot gear and military equipment.
Many people, including journalists were kettled by the cops and hauled off to jail.
The cops confiscated their cell phones and didn't return them after people were released.
The phones that were locked and encrypted are now being used against them in order to prosecute them. If they are found guilty, they face sentences as long as 75 years. This is totally nuts.
First, did the cops get a warrant to crack their phones, and second, they can implant any evidence they want to use against them during their trials.
Please read these two articles. This is why when we first heard that the Bush administration was illegally spying on us, too many people just yawned and said that "they had nothing to hide so they didn't care " or that "if spying on us keeps us safer, then go ahead".
This was dumb for just this reason that is discussed in these articles.
IMO, protests turn violent when the cops in their riot gear and their attitude towards protesters arrive at the protests.
Remember during one of the BLM protests, the cops showed up in their every day uniforms and there wasn't any violence or looting? This shows that people can protest peacefully and non-violent.
In many cases, the police have under cover cops who start the rioting. This has been proven.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
First Amendment nullification in DC
Peaceful protestors should not be charged. Although a discrimination must be made about who exactly was peaceful and who was not may be and often is difficult, The effect of the MPD repression is clearly a First Amendment violation.
Law Enforcement Provocaters
We had the same problem at Occupy L.A. Turning emotional protesters into a mob is easy. One or two infiltrators can jack up enthusiasm to vandalism in a heartbeat.
Cops are mis-trained to escalate peaceful confrontation into faux grounds for arrest. By simply targeting and unjustly arresting vocal protesters they enrage the group. Manipulating mobs is easy.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
True. During the inauguration protests the cops ignored
a group were blatantly vandalizing infrastructure and kettled people who weren't doing anything wrong. I bet that the group that was ignored were actually police instigators. (this is from one of the linked articles I posted) This should be called entrapment or something in this vein, because people wouldn't have been arrested if there wasn't someone doing violence. In most cases. But we saw what the DC police did to people even though no one was being violent.
During a protest in Berkeley, Sgt. Pike used a huge canister of tear gas and sprayed people who were sitting on the sidewalk.
Pike was fired and then he put in a claim to worker's comp stating that he has PTSD. He got compensation for it, then sued the police department and got his job back.
Going back to the topic of people saying that "they have nothing to hide", that was a bad idea because after the cops broke people's phone locks, the cops can plant any evidence they want on people's phones and use it against them during the trials.
Besides, people shouldn't be willing to give up their rights even if they think it would keep them safe from the boogeyman of the day.
The government has planned for massive protests once the shit hits the fan and this could happen soon if the banks crash the economy again and then takes people's money they have in the banks to bail themselves out again.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
UC cop started pounding on shop window
I think the video was from Ferguson, and the white, supposed undercover cop was half-heartedly hitting a shop window, and looking over his shoulder, apparently needing attention and at least one follower.
That video, and sorry, I'm on my phone but wouldn't know where to begin to look for it if I weren't, was a true eye-opener for me. I finally understood how protests become riots. Not just provocation, but outright plants sent to start the property destruction and set off the powder keg. Repulsive!
undercover cops starting riots
And suspected in many other cases, including the notorious Haymarket affair.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Anyone who is a fellow must be shunned and held up as
a traitor to the cause. Battle lines have been drawn.