We should take a trip down the Furguson thread lane.
I’ll bump it now. Enjoy!
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I’ll bump it now. Enjoy!
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So I have some time to address this properly now.So you’re only watching video after video of what one side has to say, which has been clearly sensationalized to near mythic status, despite knowing that for every crazy incident you’re being fed (and make no mistake, you’re being hand-fed everything you’re watching), there are likely tens of thousands of those same cops saving lives, dying in the line of duty, and putting it all out there for strangers each and every day?
You’re not a fool, and I know you know what’s really going on, so why are you acting like the village ka-mai?
I expect this kind of ludicrous thinking from Thriller; that’s rough company, bro.
Some police. I hate cops just as much as the next guy, and probably much worse, but even I can step back and see that it’s a foolish way to think and act, and absolutely no good comes from it. I’m a moron and can see that — what’s all you smart people’s excuse?
Petty and lame. What kind of weak-sauce insult/attack was that? Reminds me of my six year old daughter, tbh.
Honestly, who? Who here has condemned protestors or conflated protesting with being any of those things?
There are lots of levels of de-funding. Many talks are about greatly reducing police funding but not disbanding. Money will be spent on other services that benefit the community. Social workers will respond to mental health instead of police for example.I’m not sure how defunding will really work. I mean, we have to have some law enforcement for certain situations.
I would agree that not all situations need an officer, but if somebody is robbing a bank, we need people to protect life and risk.
So, being the moron that you are, you can't name one poster who set any of the standards you spoke of? Idiot.several posters in just the last few pages have ridiculed other posters and have defended the police. Hell, they’ve been shielded by our culture and their associations for far too long. Their profession is long overdue for scrutiny. The police deserve zero defending. At this point, defending the police is for maintaining the status quo which is creating the inequities that we currently see. My post was tongue and cheek but it’s not hard to recognize that bringing up the few cases of looting while a worldwide protest is occurring nearly daily, is merely An attempt to distract from actually resolving racial inequity and police brutality.
In human society we have a social contract. We all agree to behave according to a certain standard in order that we can all live together peacefully. When the police murder civilians and the repercussions never come then that social contract has been violated. If there is no social contract then there are no rules that say "looting is bad." When a community has had that contract repeatedly violated against them it is reasonable to expect that they will stop honoring their side of the contract as well. This concept has been expressed very well with the slogan "no justice, no peace."
Ex-lax will help with that.Back to the movement.
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I think specialization of tasks makes more sense. We would still have investigators and other people to do specific tasks but more appropriate training and oversight.
For entirely too long, policing has looked like pacification. Police officers have looked and behaved like an occupying army. Especially in minority areas and neighbourhoods. Probably the most infuriating way in which this manifests itself is the demand for absolute compliance and the lengths the police will go to get it. How often do you have ridiculous chases and police officers discharging weapons because a suspect was "going to get away?" In situations where said suspect might have been unarmed, was not posing an immediate danger to the public, or was not even the person they were looking for? That's okay. If they run, you can shoot. If they try to pass what might have been a fake 20, you can kneel on their neck until they die.
Oh decriminalizing drug use would do wonders as well for society and greatly reduce violence, costs to the public, and the bad drugs would be reduced.
And let me grow my own! It's a ****ing plant for God's sake.And tax it. You want MJ, fine, you pay a tax like anything else.
I don’t want a junkie peddling speed outside of an elementary, but stop filling up the justice system with non-violent offenders.
And let me grow my own! It's a ****ing plant for God's sake.
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There is no need to have all police officers carry guns and especially no need to have armed officers respond to every call.
stop filling up the justice system with non-violent offenders.