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Eatgrueldog's avatar

Nothing new here. Cops are not your friends

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Dana's avatar

Unless you are willing to put on the badge, be quiet. I say, "Fire these cops". But I walked the line and I am allowed.

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Eatgrueldog's avatar

That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard

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LibsHave2DigIQs's avatar

Conservatives blindly support cops that refuse to enforce laws on their buddies and bosses because Burn Loot Murder and Klantifa pretend they hate police.

Conservatives are so easy to play.

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Dana's avatar

Unless you are willing to put on the badge, be quiet. I say, "Fire these cops". But I walked the line and I am allowed.

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LibsHave2DigIQs's avatar

You were a cop? How many years? How many cops, judges, supervisors, politicians (AKA special people) IN YOUR DEPT AND TOWN did you arrest for the same law violations you would arrest a peasant for? Name names, you should remember them, if you ever did, which is doubtful. Selective enforcement of the law should be a hanging offense; it's sedition and insurrection.

You are too ignorant or corrupt, or both, to care about the cancerous rot known as selective enforcement of law. Or, you wouldn't excuse gov goons for doing it.

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LibsHave2DigIQs's avatar

Lol, nonsense. "Unless you're willing to be a child molester, be quiet:".

What happens to EVERY cop that applies laws to their bosses?

There Are No Good Cops

Violating our rights is all part of the job

Most people believe that most cops are good. Almost nowhere can you find public discourse on police misconduct without references to "a few bad apples" or "exceptions to the rule."

When I say there are no good cops, I do not mean that there are no cops who do good (or even libertarian) things. That claim would be easily disproven using examples such as the Texas sheriff who subverts state and federal law by refusing to jail people for marijuana possession or the cops who delivered Christmas gifts instead of tickets. And certainly not all police use unnecessary force. So why do I claim that there can be no such thing as a good cop?

Police agree to perpetuate injustice

A police officer’s job is to enforce the laws, many of which are unjust. To paraphrase Robert Higgs, every police officer, as a condition of employment, must voluntarily agree to enforce unjust laws.

From the libertarian perspective, then, the police department is a criminal organization. Imagine for a moment a kidnapping ring. Would we argue whether one can be a "good" agent of a kidnapping ring?

But, you might say, a kidnapping ring is not the same as a police department. While the police do make a habit of abducting people (every arrest, after all, is an act of coercion), they also stop murderers and thieves on occasion. So let's say we have a kidnapping ring that also provides some services to the community. Does that exonerate those working with the organization? No. The Mafia also provides community services, and few outside the organization would argue that it is "good."

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."

Frédéric Bastiat

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kicnbac's avatar

I used to be a back the blue guy until Trump started running for president and seen cops allow Trump supporters be beaten.

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Dana's avatar

Cops need to be fired for being feckless in their duty and having resorted to pummeling instead of using approved retention moves.

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Ginger Li's avatar

The dude might have been totally out of control, spaced out on meth/fentanyl. He was not being cooperative. Having said that, was the fact he was white a license for the cops unload physically on this guy like they never would have had he been black? Suspend the cops until an investigation exonerates them,

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BG's avatar

They don't have him cuffed yet! He is not in their control. He is kicking and preventing the officer from putting handcuffs on him. They are trying to get him to surrender. So if he is fighting you and you cannot get handcuffs on him, what should you do to get him to stop? Maybe a taser. This is hardly an example of out of control police officers.

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Dana's avatar

Having wrestled many resistive felons myself, I say, "Fire these cops." In NO world, is pounding a suspect in the head with your fists, or putting the boots to him, allowed. Especially when there are three of you and your suspect is controlled. After my last scuffle, in which we NEVER pummeled the felon, I vowed to grab a handful of balls next time a resistive felon would not give me his hands. I promoted, so I never had to, but there is still NO excuse for what they did.

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Dana's avatar

Having wrestled many resistive felons myself, I say, "Fire these cops." In NO world, is pounding a suspect in the head with your fists, or putting the boots to him, allowed. Especially when there are three of you and your suspect is controlled.

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Dana's avatar

Having wrestled many resistive felons myself, I say, "Fire these cops." In NO world, is pounding a suspect in the head with your fists, or putting the boots to him, allowed. Especially when there are three of you and your suspect is controlled.

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joe palooka's avatar

What is so tough about standing around, being a revenue agent & road pirate?

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bys55's avatar

Is that how ya get monkey pox?

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