Great, you go back 30 years to find scandal.
For the record, there are more than 600,000 cops in the U.S.
30 years?
You’re head is so stuck up NYC’s hindquarters, you didn’t see that the vast majority of what I wrote was not 30 years ago or even to do with your city.
My point is simple. It is a little disturbing on THIS site for people to be comfortable with fully-armored, military-girded ‘troops’ patrolling or being stationed on the streets. Police can be a presence but they should be taking the same risks as the rest of us, esp since WE are the primary targets, not the police.
And more important, I’m just putting the lie to the idea that ‘good people’ have nothing to fear from the cops. Such a line is obviously spoken by someone who has not had any experiences with the police, DWB, or had any relatives (black or white) who may have had negative experiences with the police.
BTW, 600 THOUSAND of them and we get about a 50 percent clearance on our murders, no dent in our drug trafficking or its attendant street violence, where cops will often not even attempt EVEN IN SMALL and relatively PEACEFUL jurisdictions to solve serious crimes like burglary but where many of these small jurisdictions DO have a SWAT-type team with full body armor, automatic weapons and the attitude to match while busting down doors (sometimes the wrong ones) in unconstitutional no-knock raids on the word of a criminal informant.
And if they do kill someone, accidentally or otherwise, they get administrative time until they are, inevitably allowed to continue in their job or AT WORST, made to leave the force but not sentenced to prison time.
Hell, Lon Horiuchi got a medal.
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