Here's a question: how much of society at large care that a gang-banger was shot, justly or not? How long will events such as this remain in the public conscious after the news cycles to something else?
It's easy to say law enforcement needs an overhaul, but most will be loathe to admit they are, in some way, participants in the problem.
The phrase "No one ever lost an election by being hard on crime." exists for a reason. Does anyone here even pay attention to where your local representatives in city/district/state assemblies, local sheriffs and judges stand on issues such as this when their elections comes up?
Too true. I play video games and watch TV precisely to forget about these kinds of things, and I know I'm not alone.
@deathtrap: Well you might be right that this thread is heading for lock-town. Still, police killings aren't the only indicator of brutality; there are still plenty of illegal stop-and-frisks, beatings, and even petty harassment like officers peeing on furniture during raids. Not to mention that the case being discussed by OP happened a year ago and the details are just now coming to light. For a whole year, it went on the books as just another gang-banger getting in to a fight with the police. We know now that's not true. How many more cases like this do we never hear about? Don't trust the statistics on this one.
Everyone does realize that police officers put their lives on the line every day, right?
I'm not advocating police brutality, but we never see poorly shot cell phone videos of police being kind and courteous-- there's no headline drama there.
I guess I have a dissenting opinion, but I truly think there's a lot more good police officers than bad.
Maybe our media needs an overhaul?
I get that people wanna stick up for individual police officers that are just doing their job (I know plenty of them) but you can't just ignore this massive problem. The US criminal justice system, from top to bottom, is on fire. It has been for awhile. I've seen too much damage caused by corruption and brutality to be concerned with the "good ones"
I highly recommend Joe Rogan's podcast where he had Michael Wood (an ex-Baltimore Policeman turned activist) as a guest. They talk about the gang mentality that cops have and the way they cover for each other. They also talk about quotas and how officers are pressured to make arrests even when there is no crime.
Yeah, I've been out night swimming in the woods in my young and dumb days and after being out there for awhile you can see just fine. Especially if you can see the moon.
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