youthathletics wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:23 am
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:46 am
Apparently those were firefighters who chased the snatch and grab thief down. Good job fellas.
Let me ask the question that's been bothering me about some of the posts that Trump supporters have been posting.
Is it the logic of these various posts that because there's crime in America, that justifies police abuse?
That certainly appears to this reader to be the logic. Serious question.
Serious answer....No, its that there are bad people... people struggling with issues we often know nothing about, in this world, that cause irrational behavior at times...full stop. My point in posting the above, this is during the BLM movement, in front of a fire department, and still the brazen idiocy of an enraged criminal. Do you think reparations or a defunded police force would have made him not do this? All this protesting is not going to solve dump...there are idiots out there, of all walks of life.
Shittin' on the police is a poor excuse and low hanging fruit. The irrational, believe police can not make mistakes, and yet, will shitz on them for lack of training, and a union that looks the other way in the rare instances they make a mistake. Maybe we should defund criminals and their families.... take more taxes from them, do not provide as much SNAP money to them...sound fair, no?
hmmm, let's see, you're saying that criminals are "irrational" and police are too? at times?
First of all, a snatch and grab thief isn't thinking about BLM when he attempts his crime. He's a thief, not a protestor. It confounds me why anyone would mix the two matters, except in some sort of convoluted way as to say bad people exist, therefore bad people should be expected to exist in police departments, and...here's the real rub...we shouldn't make a big deal about the latter.
Of course police will make mistakes.
The problem which is systemic is when "mistakes" are swept under the rug, lied about by the police as a whole. When policemen who make egregious such "mistakes" are allowed to continue to carry a badge and gun, with the assumed authority of the law behind them, rather than told to go get another job without such power. When those who actually commit crimes with that badge as their authority are not prosecuted for those crimes. When potential evidence of such crimes is withheld from public view, but when potentially exculpatory evidence would be rushed to public view, when policeman with a pattern of offensive conduct are enabled to move from police department to police department without their record of past misdeeds following them...do I need to go on?
Good police don't like any of the above. And there's lots of good police.
But the systemic issues persist, the bad actors are allowed to continue in positions of power over their fellow citizens.
Time to change that.
