Generally speaking.
That’s pretty general considering we see a damn near daily report on police abuse of citizens, not to mention their collaboration in various forms of unconstitutional behavior, using the asset forfeiture abomination to enrich their departments, Serpico, the various scandals in the NYPD in the 70s and the LAPD in the 90s, the utter corruption that rotted away at the New Orleans PD, racist ATF gatherings with “nigger hunting licenses” obtained at said events, burning children alive after a murderous raid, murdering people at Ruby Ridge, the Elian Gonzales disaster, Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, Rodney King, the various Brett Darrow run-ins with local police stating they will manufacture evidence against him on tape, the teacher beaten by feds in New Orleans, the Iraq war veteran shot while complying with officers directions, the deaths of who knows how many beloved pets, innocent human beings and even the guilty who did not deserve a summary death sentence.
So after all those exceptions, I’d say your definition of ‘general’ is probably a bit less exacting than mine.
Great, you go back 30 years to find scandal.
For the record, there are more than 600,000 cops in the U.S.
Hmmm...”near daily report...”
Well, I don’t see those reports.
I guess if one was reading those way-out-there leftist sites; maybe one would read a ‘near daily report.”
A good morning to you.
Golly, don’t the police ever do anything good?
There are good and bad in every single group you could put together in our world. This is not to say that the examples you brought up don’t happen — but, the way you are putting forth the assertion in response to Cindy’s post makes one believe that you feel EVERY cop out there is interested in participating in this sort of illegal, abusive, harassing activity — against the very citizens they have sworn to protect and defend.
I completely understand being wary — as I said, there are good and bad in every group — but at the same time, there is not a need to be overly paranoid, either.
We need to work to change some of the regulations concerning liability that make people “above the law” when it comes to these abuses, and that would make the situation immensely better for all concerned. Then we would still have some of the security that a police presence provides, but at the same time be more protected from abuses.
As for NY making an effort to increase security on the Subways themselves — I say, good job! I’m sure the people of NY are mostly of the mindset that this would’ve been a good idea years ago — even without the added element of a terrorist threat.
Source???
Ultimately, I'm just puzzled by this development. How is having the cops in the subways with full auto M4's going to stop a terrorist? They operate by stealth anyway. It's not like the cops have a special radar that points out the terrorists like in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". I guess it fits in overall with liberal philosophy that "assault weapons" are so deadly that they'll kill even the worst terrorist, or some muddle headed thinking like that.
If you only knew how informed Cindy is, you’d bite your tongue. Yes the Long March has corrupted many but many stand right and true.
CINDY and Honest Law Enforcement Officer bump!
You are conflating police misconduct with decisions by civilians. Shame on you.