This is seriously troubling

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

As I said in my previous post with the link to a New York times article about the recent assaults on police in New York, the push for this new law is obviously a direct result of these recent assaults.

You call this an age of cops shooting people and getting away with it because there are a handful of such cases. There are well over 10000x more violent crimes committed by criminals. You are obviously very easily manipulated by soundbites and propaganda. Do you have any idea how many violent crimes were committed in this country in 2013? There were over 1 million violent crimes committed. Should we celebrate this since there may have been 1.1 million violent crimes a few years ago? There were over 14,000 murders in 2013. How many unjustified police shootings were there? Maybe 20 people at the most? How does 20 people compare to 14,000 people? But you want to focus on the 20 people and say that the police are the problem.

With regard to adding to the prison population, the only thing I want to do is get violent people off the street. If there are only 500 violent people on the street, then I only want those 500 people in prison. But if there are 1 million violent people on the street then I'd want to see 1 million people in prison. You're not doing anyone a favor by letting violent criminals roam the street simply because the prisons are crowded.

Here are some of the stats:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...110-story.html

absolutely bad police are a problem. they make it tough for everyone. their fellow police, the citizens they encounter...
as for the militarization, i blame the governments for that. local, state and federal.
we aren't the enemy, our cities aren't war zones.

'easily manipulated'. don't even start with the personal bs. i have no issue with people disagreeing with me, and holding their own opinions...but keep it on subject.
my dad was a cop in d.c. 20 years. i know all about dealing with it, the psychological crap, the citizens who spit on cops and call them names. the cops taking it out on their families, the stress, etc. and then i was in the navy, similar stuff. and just like in the navy with a cross section of the populace, you have good cops and not so good, and some really bad ones that you wonder how the hell they got hired.
but it helps no one to have the rest of the dept. close ranks and defend the bad cops. all they do is make it harder on everyone.