American cops

Created a luk popularity thread for you so we can get back to cops.

The policeman is your friend!
 
Cops are hired to deal with the criminal element. That includes the violence that's inherent in crime. When you hire someone to do that job, you don't hire the guy who's a poetic florist down in the central core of his soul. You hire the thug, the bully, the guy who isn't afraid to scrap it up with someone. And then you train him to control his instincts until they're needed to be loosed. You give him the tools he needs to do whatever it takes. And then you protect him from liability for his actions taken at your behest.

You do the best you can to weed out the ones looking for victims they can prey on under the protection of their badge but those types will always manage to sneak in.

When the media only focuses on the bad ones in the name of ratings and sensationalism, the good ones get ignored or swept up and painted as the same scum. That hurts the good cops and they either quit, or they stop doing their job at the same level they've been doing it. Which means that most of the ones who are left are the bad cops who got past the checks in the hiring process.

Guess which ones the media continues to focus on?
You're aware that there's a vast spectrum between the two, right?
It's not an either/or situation.

Y'all seem to have a better selection record for police dogs and horses.
 
isn't all policing about protecting the establishment, which basically equates to the same thing.

Orgreave.Never Forget. NEVER FORGIVE. :mad:

Dibble bought houses out of the OT from the miners' strike.
 
When the media only focuses on the bad ones in the name of ratings and sensationalism, the good ones get ignored or swept up and painted as the same scum.


Yes, I was searching for all the stories about the planes that landed safely yesterday, and couldn't find a single one.
 
Dibble bought houses out of the OT from the miners' strike.

houses, cars, villas in portugal (for a few of 'em at least) wasnt only the dibble though, some military drivers drove the coal trucks through the lines 'obeying orders' some military advisors presumably trained the dibble in snatch squad tactics (and other tactics).

control the law, the church and education system and you control society.

coppers, lawyers, judges, priests, teachers. Not a lot between any of 'em.
 
You're aware that there's a vast spectrum between the two, right?
It's not an either/or situation.

Y'all seem to have a better selection record for police dogs and horses.


It is indeed an "either / or" type of thing.

You're either a good cop who will do whatever is necessary when it's necessary, or you aren't. There is no middle ground or gray area.
 
On January 15, 2009, Sullenberger was the captain of US Airways Flight 1549...

Look, a poor dumb fuckwit who doesn't understand nuance very well at all.

Perhaps that's why you're so confused about everything and your mom so disappointed in you.
 
Look, a poor dumb fuckwit who doesn't understand nuance very well at all.

Perhaps that's why you're so confused about everything and your mom so disappointed in you.

It's a shame your senility is getting worse every day, Rapey. I'm sorry I have to be the one to point that out to you. Perhaps a nice room at The Townhouse would suit you best at this advanced stage of life.
 
It's a shame your senility is getting worse every day, Rapey. I'm sorry I have to be the one to point that out to you. Perhaps a nice room at The Townhouse would suit you best at this advanced stage of life.

I get it, fantasy rules your life to the point you can't distinguish between it and reality.

I'm just so sorry for your mom having to endure your birth and subsequent embarrassment to the family name.
 
I get it, fantasy rules your life to the point you can't distinguish between it and reality.

I'm just so sorry for your mom having to endure your birth and subsequent embarrassment to the family name.

At least my mother had children who lived, Rapey.
 
*Yang, you iodiot.

See? Luke be smawta 'n chit.

It's a nice sunny day today. You should grab your skateboard and go play with your little friends outside. That way the rest of us can talk without your constant interruptions.
 
It's a nice sunny day today. You should grab your skateboard and go play with your little friends outside. That way the rest of us can talk without your constant interruptions.

I used to skate the ditch by your house, Rapey. That neighborhood was a shithole back then too.
 
So i stumbled upon this...

Not the greatest news source on the Internet, i know, but the footage is there.

Someone explain this to me?

Do you really need a lesson in human phycology? It isn't JUST American cops. ANY time you have a profession, law enforcement, military, government, where one is imbibed with authority over others, you're going to have people that apply for and are accepted to those jobs whose sole aim is the accumulation and implementation of power over others. And many of those not only are unaffected by the pain and suffering of others but actually like and go out of their way to cause it.

A true story: I worked for a small city most of my working career taking care of the rolling stock. We did all the Departments including the Police. There was a couple of officers sitting in my office one day waiting for their car to be serviced telling stories. One was the canine officer. He was telling about tracking and arresting a guy who fled after a traffic stop. He and his dog tracked the guy to where he was hiding under a bottom-side-up old boat in the backyard of a residence.

The officer demanded the guy come out. When the guy refused to, the officer threatened to turn the dog loose on him. The guy still refused to come out. The officer then turned the dog loose with an order to "get him". The dog could only get to the guy's ear, which he proceeded to rip to shreads. Keep in mind the guy hiding, while being reticent about crawling out of his hiding place, posed no threat. The officer telling the story was laughing as if it were funny.

Keep in mind the officer had other means to get the guy out, pepper spray being one. But he chose a physically damaging means to do so.

The point of the story is there are those who, given a choice among several options, will always choose the most painful most degrading option BECAUSE THEY LIKE DOING IT. That kind of person is attracted to law enforcement because they will, at some time in their career, have the option of dealing out pain and suffering to someone to satisfy their need for that kind of gratification.

To be clear, all cops aren't like that, not even the majority. But as the old saying goes, it only takes one bad apple to spoil the barrel. And law enforcement, no matter where they are, are like any other group, they will try to downplay or cover for those who do such thing because they are afraid it will tar them with the same brush. After a long varied life I've seen it play out, to varying degrees, in lots of different groups: Unions, government, volunteer groups, social groups.

I don't believe it is only American cops who do this. The thing is right now, all eyes are focused on U.S. law enforcement. Which isn't a bad thing. To my mind dragging everything into the light, into the public eye isn't a bad thing at all.

I think if you looked around your own backyard you would find instances like this.

'nuff said.


Comshaw
 
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