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Originally posted by redoubt
Police brutality...
You know, we give these regular human beings a badge and a great power over their fellow humans. For the most part, they hold their positions in good standing but we can't expect perfection from people no more perfect than we are.
What is needed is more oversight... more places for the citizen to go to register complaints. But as these things happen... it usually happens that police brutality increases at the same time when funding for that oversight dries up, lol.
Yeah... the economy is in ruins and people are struggling at the same time states cut back on programs that oversee enforcement.
That works as long as it is only the people who get hurt. But... let a cop get a scratch and the the world comes down like a ton of bricks.
It's an uneven trade-off... nobody in any state legislature is going to vote money to watch underpaid, overworked cops... because that is just asking for a freaking headache.
edit on 13-5-2012 by redoubt because: edit
One thing is media rarely covers police violence so the average perso doesn't see it-- however, people that do-- like black guys in the ghetto who say "F**** the police!" are seen as 'thugs' but they are getting beat or see it.
Plus, most people IMO don't care UNTIL it happens to them or someone they know
Originally posted by redoubt
Police brutality...
You know, we give these regular human beings a badge and a great power over their fellow humans. For the most part, they hold their positions in good standing but we can't expect perfection from people no more perfect than we are.
What is needed is more oversight... more places for the citizen to go to register complaints. But as these things happen... it usually happens that police brutality increases at the same time when funding for that oversight dries up, lol.
Yeah... the economy is in ruins and people are struggling at the same time states cut back on programs that oversee enforcement.
That works as long as it is only the people who get hurt. But... let a cop get a scratch and the the world comes down like a ton of bricks.
It's an uneven trade-off... nobody in any state legislature is going to vote money to watch underpaid, overworked cops... because that is just asking for a freaking headache.
edit on 13-5-2012 by redoubt because: edit
Originally posted by ColoradoJens
reply to post by Asktheanimals
If they had started with "George Zimmerman shot Travon Martin while out buying skittles" would that have been better?
CJ
Originally posted by redoubt
Police brutality...
You know, we give these regular human beings a badge and a great power over their fellow humans. For the most part, they hold their positions in good standing but we can't expect perfection from people no more perfect than we are.
What is needed is more oversight... more places for the citizen to go to register complaints. But as these things happen... it usually happens that police brutality increases at the same time when funding for that oversight dries up, lol.
Yeah... the economy is in ruins and people are struggling at the same time states cut back on programs that oversee enforcement.