posted on Oct, 21 2014 @ 11:02 PM
I totally understand your point, and your experiences with the police are probably common. My interactions consist of a few traffic stops, parties
getting busted, and other mundane things of that nature. Then there are stories I've heard from friends, and interactions that I've seen out in
public. You give some people power and they not only abuse it, but they adopt this attitude that they are the greatest thing since sliced bread, and
that they can do whatever they please. I've had to go to the sheriff's office in the past, and other places where there is a police presence, and you
would not believe how rude these people can be. I went to visit someone who was in the county jail for not paying a ticket, and you would have thought
that I was a criminal by the way I was treated there. Not only by the police present, but the jailers as well. No common decency or courtesy, no tact
or common sense. Like I always tell people when they are rude...if you don't like your job, then quit. There needs to be an entire revamping of the
justice system in general. What needs to be done is that any positions of power should have extremely strict oversight. The person doing the
overseeing is not allowed to form any kind of relationship with those they are watching, and there needs to be stricter punishments enacted for these
power positions. There are ethics committees and oversight groups for all kinds of positions, especially those were people can get hurt or killed, so
why not have the same thing with the police? Having someone in their office who is supposed to do this is a conflict of interest, and that simply
leads to colleagues looking the other way when something bad happens, and nobody is held accountable.
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