People seldom realize that police come from the very community
they serve. They are a product of that community...
Not all police come from the community they serve. For the most part, when they do they are awesome. When they don't they tend to treat the people like subjects to be ruled over.
Why are there no "notorious incidents" when police are injured,
crippled, killed, in the line of duty?
Humph! I served 22.5 years & disabled with broken back #4, concussions, cracked ribs, poisoned in chemical fires, p.t.s.d.,
and more..
Everyone city I have ever lived in, when a cop gets seriously hurt in the line of duty it makes the news.
But the reason there is never any national outrage is because there is never an injustice associated with a cop's injury.
For instance, imagine a cop who is on duty between 7am - 5pm. He pulls me over at 5:02pm and I get out of my car, we have an altercation and I put him in the hospital. My lawyer argues that since his shift ended at 5:00pm he had no authority to pull me over and the case against me gets dropped due to that technicality.
Now if that happened you could bet there would be national outrage.
So don't feel unloved, the truth, the bitter truth is, this country loves police so much that police can tell the most ridiculous bald-faced lies in court and we the people will "give them the benefit of the doubt". Even when video tape shows the lie for what it is, we love cops so much we don't charge them for perjury but rather accept the excuse that they "remembered incorrectly"
...So why do we hold cops to such a higher standard?
Because cops are granted near unlimited power and autonomy. If one cop says one thing but ten witnesses say another the court will still often side with the cop.
Not only that, the cops don't even have to be in the right. As long as they "tthink" they are right they can take whatever action they feel necessary. So yeah, given the asymmetry of power between police and the citizenry they should be held to a higher standard.
...The public forgets they are just as human as anyone else..
Police want it both ways.
On one hand they are infallible and never wrong when ordering us around, but then on the other hand they want us to accept their mistakes.
I have no problem forgiving mistakes. My problem stems from when police commit crimes and try to pass those off as mistakes.
Here is my definition of a police crime. If a normal citizen did what the officer did would he be charged?
Take the 84 yr old elderly woman that was pepper sprayed. Let's say me and her get in an argument. Let's say I drop my cell phone, she picks it up and refuses to give it back to me. If I pepper spray her to get my phone back would I be charged with a crime?
Yes, I realize that is apples and oranges but consider the spirit of the argument.
So, imo the officer did not make a mistake pepper spraying that woman, she committed a crime.
...ALL my injuries were a result of the violent actions of black
criminals.
I don't hate anyone.
So it goes.
I appreciate and thank you for your service. I think good cops make the mistake of thinking we hate all cops. We dont. We just hate the system that enables and protects bad, incompetent, lazy, egomaniac bully cops.
And when a cop does something wrong, we hate how so called "good cops" help protect the bad cops.
Again, take the lady that elderly lady who was pepper sprayed in her own home. The so called good cops are going to support the bad cop who did that.
Even animals and birds are opposed to drones violating their air space and privacy.
