Those videos are of bad cops. I didn't view them but I'll take your word on it since people love to show video's of bad cops.. I never saw a cop do something that was so above and beyond reckless such as capping off some rounds that ended up killing someone.
Whatever guns your town or city is buying for there cops... There no match for the illegal gun/cannons out there.
Face it Tony you just don't care for cops, fireman, Gov't, and most other type establishments. Your Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols.. anarchy... Down with the Queen.. Your a punk rocker at heart.. Problem now is your the man.Hahahahahahaha. You are a business man.... That makes you the man...lol. You probably hated the "Man" back when you were a rebellious teenager.. And I bet you still can't stand the "Man".. But your it now brother.. your the man "Mr. chips" orgs suck, PWNA sucks, UAMCC sucks, UAMCC doesn't suck,, we all suck..lol. Please don't say this country sucks.... Ohhhhh noooooo Tony..don't do it!!!!!!!! Toonnnnnnyyyyy. Ok what will you say next.. Who sucks?? Nurses?? Who else is on your radar?? Why do I have a feeling your going to say something negative...lol
John, why is it ok for a cop to approach citizens with a gun drawn on them when they have shown no signs of deliberate violent behavior? If anyone else did that they would be in jail for brandishing a weapon.
Why is it ok to terrorize, yell and swear at citizens? If any of us did that we would probably be locked up for psychiatric observation. No one in civil society behaves like that.
Somehow our police forces made it through the 20th century with fully automatic machine guns going against them for a portion of that century and they kept law and order without resorting to this kind of treatment of citizens.
Further, John, I don't have any problem with authority. The authority in this country is the US Constitution and our state constitutions. I will follow them like the Bible and gladly submit to the rules and regulations prescribed by and allowed by those ruling documents. I won't, however, submit to the perverted interpretations of those documents that have brought us to the state of chaos and abuse.
Firefighters are not "authority". They are truly public servants. BUT even THEY have been tainted by the perversions of the law and greed. About half of our firefighters made more money on overtime by working the system and working in cahoots with each other to make sure they took time of during their normal work time so they could get paid almost all overtime. On our dime. One supervisor made more than 700K and many of the firefighters made in the mid $200k range. It was a big deal here in Las Vegas and probably cost them lots of funding for the next few years. Yet their UNION defended them all the way and tried to justify everything they did.
I don't hate authority John, I hate corruption. And yes, I hated it in the PWNA and the UAMCC. I hate it in the ranks of the police, firefighters, city council, congress, oval office and within our own industry. I will "go negative" anytime it is encountered. Because I can, and because I think it's the right thing to do.
On a personal note my dad was a notoriously slow driver. On two occasions I was in the car with him driving home listening to a ballgame at about 5-10 mph on the road, gently swerving from side to side at those speeds when a police officer pulled him over. (In the 70's) Not once did either of the cops raise their voice. Not once did they pull their weapons. Both times they came up to the window and tapped on it and asked my dad if he was ok.
Why isn't that the first reaction a police officer has even with a drunk driver. I've done ride alongs with deputies from my uncle's department where they have pulled over and followed a guy home because he was a little "tipsy". While drunk driving isn't right, there is still a human component in any office of authority and that component needs to be used. I think that the training and peer pressure sucks out whatever human component is left in some of these cops, but for the majority of them they are on the force because they HAVE NO HUMAN COMPONENT and can't identify with anyone who does.
On another personal level, my uncle (a sheriff for 28 years - not a deputy, but THE sheriff) went after an escaped convict with one of his deputies. They found him at his mother's house. The instructions were to take him without hurting him because that would devastate his poor mother.
In the process my uncle was shot. From cover he talked the man down while bleeding and got him to give up his weapon. Even though what he did was completely wrong they cuffed him standing up like a human being and carted him back to prison. The guy was a scumbag, but he was a human being. He had shot an officer, but by the time he was subdued he was non combative and was treated in a humane way.
This all took time. From what I understand it took almost 30 minutes to get him to give up his weapon after my uncle was shot.
Contrast that with those grandstanding punks on "to catch a predator". A piece of crap (though entrapped) potential pedophile is leaving the house and they have to make it a point to put them down on the ground like a dog to arrest them. Usually with 5-10 officers surrounding them with guns drawn. There is no reason for this. Even in the cases of these POS pedophiles. If our founding fathers had envisioned this type of behavior they would have probably put a bullet in their own heads to keep from fathering great great grandchildren who would contribute to this type of society.
Yet it is defended day after day by the police unions and the backwoods republicans who still believe the police are there to "save" them in an emergency.
You blew your chance John. You know what I'm talking about. You've got those nagging instances in the back of your head where you could have made a difference but you chose to remain silent. There is no better time than the present to make up for that. Join in a fight to educate police officers in a more humane way to interact.
Open your eyes and realize that this type of interaction with the public, whether guilty of a crime or not, is intolerable. Most deadly encounters can be diffused in a matter of minutes with a small amount of human understanding. Yelling "commands", screaming, swearing and beating people are not conducive to a peaceful ending to a confrontation. The police are taught to "escalate" a situation rather than reduce the tension. This has to change.
But it won't change as long as the ignorant people who have never experienced it defend the status quo. This is the same thing that happened in Mass. at the beginning of the American Revolution. The majority sat back quietly defending the redcoats because they represented "order". That didn't change until the redcoats marched in and disarmed them and confiscated their ammo and bullied and attacked the general population. Even though the Redcoats represented the "authority", in the end many of them lay dead in the fields and a new authority took its rightful place. Is is possible for this to be resolved peacefully or are the police going to be allowed to continue to abuse citizens till they revolt and the police suffer the same fate as the redcoats?
