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Originally posted by Doublemint
But what do cops other people have in common? They are both human so I could rewrite your title to be The Humans ARE the number ONE enemy to a peacful and free society.
Originally posted by radosta
If any single one of you was in a bad neighborhood being eyed down, you would be fervently hoping and praying for a cop to drive by. If you were caught up in some lawlessness after a natural or manmade disaster, you would be filled with joy to see cops and/or national guard troops pull up.
Give your phony baloney tough guy anarchism a break. Unless you are highly trained in multiple forms of combat and well armed and have several allies with the same, you secretly want and need law enforcement. the mob will always feed on its own.
Originally posted by radosta
If any single one of you was in a bad neighborhood being eyed down, you would be fervently hoping and praying for a cop to drive by. If you were caught up in some lawlessness after a natural or manmade disaster, you would be filled with joy to see cops and/or national guard troops pull up.
Give your phony baloney tough guy anarchism a break. Unless you are highly trained in multiple forms of combat and well armed and have several allies with the same, you secretly want and need law enforcement. the mob will always feed on its own.
Originally posted by radosta
If any single one of you was in a bad neighborhood being eyed down, you would be fervently hoping and praying for a cop to drive by. If you were caught up in some lawlessness after a natural or manmade disaster, you would be filled with joy to see cops and/or national guard troops pull up.
Give your phony baloney tough guy anarchism a break. Unless you are highly trained in multiple forms of combat and well armed and have several allies with the same, you secretly want and need law enforcement. the mob will always feed on its own.
Originally posted by radosta
If any single one of you was in a bad neighborhood being eyed down, you would be fervently hoping and praying for a cop to drive by. If you were caught up in some lawlessness after a natural or manmade disaster, you would be filled with joy to see cops and/or national guard troops pull up.
Give your phony baloney tough guy anarchism a break. Unless you are highly trained in multiple forms of combat and well armed and have several allies with the same, you secretly want and need law enforcement. the mob will always feed on its own.
That didnt work in Nuremberg and it doesnt work here.
Well, I'm not offering that excuse, and I would think you'd have a difficult time convincing the police that they have taken on a "mindless" job.
Even if we were to accept that excuse it would mean that people who choose said profession are only doing it for a mindless job with city benefits. Is that all cops are? Automatons punching a time-card just doing what they're told?
An "unarrestable crime?" Perhaps you mean that prosecutors wouldn't charge that crime in the past, but now they do?
There are hundreds if not thousands of NYC minorities who would disagree seeing that their local automatons were taking extra steps to "fry n______s" and arrest individuals for a crime that had been deemed unarrestable for since the mid 70's.
Sorry, see my signature. I don't understand this. Do you mean that they are making arrests that they have been ordered not to make?
If they're going to play the "just following orders" card then they can;t very well get themselves caught making more work for themselves, especially work that goes directly against orders, now can they?
Originally posted by muzzleflash
I had my car ticketed a dozen times for parking at my house. I didn't have a drive way so therefore, I owe the state countless hundreds of dollars.
They essentially put a boot on my car, and threatened to confiscate it if I didn't pay up (Over 500$ ++).
FOR PARKING AT MY OWN HOUSE!!!!
They told me if I removed the boot from the car, I would be arrested for felony destruction of government property, EVEN IF I left the boot there in one piece.
Trust me there are 100 ways to get a boot off a car it's as easy as letting the air out of the tire (on some models).
The parking ticket thing IMHO is the "Hidden Tax" that almost anyone gets charged with in this society unless you are ultra rich and can always afford special parking privileges.
If you add the parking taxation *hidden* with the other out-in-the-open taxes like property tax, state tax, sales tax, IRS tax, etc = We are being taxed for like 90% of our generated wealth.
Do the math!
Originally posted by EyesII
Nobody likes cops except their mom and dad, and thier immediate family. That's it.
I went to the thread, which referenced a New York Times article, which referenced another Times article, part of which is the following:
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
reply to post by charles1952
Here's info on the situation in NYC covering the "unarrestable" offenses and police intentionally making more work for themselves by ignoring direct orders: www.abovetopsecret.com...
Under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the number of low-level marijuana arrests has increased significantly. Mr. Bloomberg’s office declined to comment on Mr. Kelly’s order, but in the past, mayoral aides have said such arrests helped fight more serious crime, like the violence that tends to trail drugs.
. . .
In a March appearance before the City Council, Mr. Kelly reiterated the Bloomberg administration’s position that arrests for having marijuana in public view have helped keep crime low.
In response to council members who were skeptical of the policy, he said, “If you think the law is not written correctly, then you should petition the State Legislature to change it.”
Hakeem Jeffries, a Democratic assemblyman from Brooklyn, and Mark Grisanti, a Republican senator from Buffalo, have since sponsored a bill that would downgrade open possession of small amounts of marijuana from a misdemeanor to a violation.
City Hall is opposed to changing the law.
In June, Frank Barry, a mayoral aide, said downgrading the offense would “encourage smoking in the streets and in our parks, reversing successful efforts to clean up neighborhoods and eliminate the open-air drug markets like we used to find in Washington Square Park.”
Here's the "fry n_______s" cop:www.theroot.com...
Well, that's not exactly what the story says. The man involved had an IQ in the top 2.1% of the population. The department wouldn't hire people in the bottom half of the scale. They knew that, for various reasons, the police in New London had a high turnover rate and they wanted to find people they thought would enjoy the work and stick around. They had some reason to believe that high IQ types would leave early, being unfulfilled. That doesn't total up to hiring dullards for mindless work.
Here's the police admitting to having a mindless job and hiring dullards intentionally: abcnews.go.com...