jstager said:
They are the cops. What do you expect? They claim to be there for you, when all they really do is have a major attitude, conform to everything, and never bother to question a way of thinking.
If I was a cop, and if someone had Marijuana, I would not repremand them. Why? Because I'm much smarter than most police, even at the age of 15. I know what laws are truly counter-productive, and should be stopped. The police I have encountered are pricks, and are not to be trusted. How we can have idiots like that protecting our people is beyond me.
If you trust the police, then there must be something wrong with you. Would you trust Bush with a gun? That's kind of what our police force is like. Incompetent, ignorant, and overall tyrannistic. Anyone who works like that is automatically inable to hold any "Real World" job. True, their psychology allows them to handle the stress, but they deserve to be stressed out. People like that are complete wastes of space.
Get the fuck out of my country, you are halting the progression of laws and the legal system. Maybe we could hire intelligent people to work our police force, and not these control freaks who play "power games."
That's so far from the truth, I don't even know where to begin.
"Incompetent, ignorant, and overall tyrannistic" is not how I would describe our police force. These people put their lives on the line every day to keep your ass safe, and all but a few of them put their lives in the back seat for yours. "Their psychology" that you speak of is a myth. There's no teachings in the Police Academy that says "Be a hardass, push the little man around," or any other such thing police are stereotyped for. That's the individual, not the whole.
"They claim to be there for you, when all they really do is have a major attitude, conform to everything, and never bother to question a way of thinking." Once again, you stereotype. For every "bad cop," there's so many police that
do see grey areas, that
do know what its like to feel unrepresented, uncared for, and unsafe that it makes these stereotypes look unjustified, and that's because they aren't justified at all.
What, I ask, have the police ever done to you? I'm not you, but I can guarantee the following things: They make themselves targets for endless amounts of criticism (as you've shown), anti-police and gang violence, and they take tons of shit when
one police officer does something wrong (and there have been a lot of them, I'll assure you), and all in the name of saving your ass when its in trouble, keeping the citizens safe, and doing their best to see that justice is served.
In L.A., it is almost a rite of passage to kill a policeman. These police know that, and they still suit up every day and do their best. Would you do the same?
