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Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Sat April 11, 2015 5:25 am
by Stickman
Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:Stickman wrote:
Tazed, punt to the balls and hard kick to the head to start.. AFTER surrendering. I'm bettin they're not telling his family where he's at so they can work him over to get him to understand what he did was wrong so they were justified.
The last time the cops came for this guy, he took his neighbor's dog hostage and blew it's head off. Explain to me why I'm supposed to feel sorry for him again?
Cops are above the law. Got it.
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Sat April 11, 2015 5:41 am
by Wendy Carlos's Twin
Stickman wrote:
Cops are above the law. Got it.
I'm not saying the cops acted properly here, but I don't feel sorry for this douchebag one bit, and I don't see the point of turning him into another Rodney King.
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Sat April 11, 2015 12:51 pm
by B
NPR had a law professor from South Carolina on, and he had a really good point about changing cop culture so that they view themselves as guardians and not as warriors and how that might change the way the interact with the public.
Guy is even a former cop. It was worth a listen.
http://www.npr.org/2015/04/10/398824607 ... nt-culture
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Sat April 11, 2015 8:18 pm
by simple schoolboy
I'd appreciate it if cops stopped referring to the rest of us as 'civilians', at least until the courts apply the third amendment to them.
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Sat April 11, 2015 8:46 pm
by Rob
Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:Stickman wrote:
Cops are above the law. Got it.
I'm not saying the cops acted properly here, but I don't feel sorry for this douchebag one bit, and I don't see the point of turning him into another Rodney King.
I feel like half (maybe most) the people I know feel this way. It's always the suspect's fault for putting himself in a position where this could happen. "Don't fight, don't resist, and this won't happen."
But I think that's BS. Cops have to be held to higher standards than the rest of us. The guy in Cali clearly surrendered. That should have been the end of it. Everything that follows is on the cops.
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Wed April 15, 2015 9:24 pm
by Strat
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Thu April 16, 2015 2:27 pm
by Fuck You Jobu
Strat wrote:http://www.click2houston.com/news/video-shows-officer-intentionally-run-over-suspect/32369228
I can't view the video right now, but is this the story where he attacked cops and stole a gun?
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Thu April 16, 2015 3:09 pm
by Strat
Fuck You Jobu wrote:Strat wrote:http://www.click2houston.com/news/video-shows-officer-intentionally-run-over-suspect/32369228
I can't view the video right now, but is this the story where he attacked cops and stole a gun?
Im not sure if he attacekd the cops but he did fire his gun up in the air walking down the street and i do believe it was stolen.
The video is just kind of hilarious. IT was probably a good move but its just kind of hilarious/shocking to see the cop just maul him.
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Fri April 17, 2015 3:11 am
by verb_to_trust
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Fri April 17, 2015 4:45 am
by simple schoolboy
I get the feeling that somewhere in Oklahoma, a police union rep is printing up T-shirts of support for the auxiliary officer responsible for the shooting that is some variation of "fuck your breath".
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Mon April 20, 2015 11:32 pm
by Green Habit
As someone who rides my bike all the time, go fuck yourself, Tampa PD.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafe ... ck/2225966
If the tickets are any indication, Tampa residents must be the lousiest bicyclists in Florida.
They don't use lights at night. Don't ride close enough to the curb. Can't manage to keep their hands on the handlebars.
In the past three years, Tampa police have written 2,504 bike tickets — more than Jacksonville, Miami, St. Petersburg and Orlando combined.
Police say they are gung ho about bike safety and focused on stopping a plague of bike thefts.
But here's something they don't mention about the people they ticket:
Eight out of 10 are black.
A Tampa Bay Times investigation has found that Tampa police are targeting poor, black neighborhoods with obscure subsections of a Florida statute that outlaws things most people have tried on a bike, like riding with no light or carrying a friend on the handlebars.
Officers use these minor violations as an excuse to stop, question and search almost anyone on wheels. The department doesn't just condone these stops, it encourages them, pushing officers who patrol high-crime neighborhoods to do as many as possible.
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Wed April 22, 2015 7:30 am
by simple schoolboy
Green Habit wrote:As someone who rides my bike all the time, go fuck yourself, Tampa PD.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafe ... ck/2225966
If the tickets are any indication, Tampa residents must be the lousiest bicyclists in Florida.
They don't use lights at night. Don't ride close enough to the curb. Can't manage to keep their hands on the handlebars.
In the past three years, Tampa police have written 2,504 bike tickets — more than Jacksonville, Miami, St. Petersburg and Orlando combined.
Police say they are gung ho about bike safety and focused on stopping a plague of bike thefts.
But here's something they don't mention about the people they ticket:
Eight out of 10 are black.
A Tampa Bay Times investigation has found that Tampa police are targeting poor, black neighborhoods with obscure subsections of a Florida statute that outlaws things most people have tried on a bike, like riding with no light or carrying a friend on the handlebars.
Officers use these minor violations as an excuse to stop, question and search almost anyone on wheels. The department doesn't just condone these stops, it encourages them, pushing officers who patrol high-crime neighborhoods to do as many as possible.
I suggest that Tampa and San Francisco start an exchange program. We could do with better traffic enforcement regarding bikes.
Beyond that, the vehicle code seems geared towards maximizing justification for stops. It seems to me that traffic stops should be oriented towards reducing risk to other drivers/pedestrians/bicyclists rather than revenue generation.
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 7:04 am
by simple schoolboy
Does Baltimore like to promote the Wire as a softer version of the city? I'd don't recall nickel rides being a lethal afair, if they were covered.
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 12:35 pm
by Kaius
Where's Tommy Carcetti when you need him?
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 1:06 pm
by Simple Torture
Kaius wrote:Where's Tommy Carcetti when you need him?
The North.
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 3:04 pm
by Norah
Simple Torture wrote:Kaius wrote:Where's Tommy Carcetti when you need him?
The North.
I was gonna post that.
True story: It wasn't until I recently rewatched The Wire that I realized Carcetti was Littlefinger. It blew my mind.
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 4:42 pm
by Kaius
I actually realized it pretty quickly, but my wife missed it also. Great actor.
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 7:01 pm
by Simple Torture
He's good, but as the series goes on, his voice gets more annoying. The accent just doesn't feel natural.
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 8:17 pm
by Norah
Simple Torture wrote:He's good, but as the series goes on, his voice gets more annoying. The accent just doesn't feel natural.
Wait, which one are you talking about?
Re: Cops Are The Worst
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 8:22 pm
by spike
carcetti/littlefinger was also in TDKR