Thread: Police Brutality

Originally Posted by Tsen

I still haven't got a chance to speak to him directly about it yet, so I don't know his reasoning, but I heard the other day that he took the $20,000.
I really wish he would've pressed charges, because this was just so blatantly wrong...
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I think he could've gotten alot more than that.
my mom's lawyers is predicting about that because someone hit her car and she got some herniated or something discs in her spine and couldn't work for awhile.

I heard on the radio a couple weeks ago. This guy robs a bank and as he is fleeing the scene he gets robbed by another guy for the loot. They both were aprehended. What are the odds?

Here is a funny story that happened to me about 25 years ago.

I was coming home from highschool and I had lost my keys to get in my house. I went around to the side of our house and pulled a ladder out from under our porch. I set the ladder in the driveway beneath our bathroom window. I climbed the ladder and managed to crack open the window just enough to wiggle my body in head first.

I,m in my house for about 20 minutes when I hear a knock at my front door?,who should it be but 2 police officers asking me for my ID. They push there way into my living room as I pull out my wallet for my ID.
I explain my situation and once they knew I lived there they told me how my neighbours called them because they seen a pair of feet entering our side window!

I pointed to some family pictures on our walls and said; look ..if I don,t live here then someones got my picture on their walls. The look on their faces was priceless. I know they wanted to kill me at that moment for being such a smart ass but I could,t help it.

I,m actualy glad they showed up in that situation and i,m also glad my neighbours are keeping a keen eye out. That could have easily been an attempted break in and they would have been caught but still, being a teenager and all the times I have been hasseled by the police I felt I had to give them a hard time.

I just don't understand such stupid cops. Not only are they racist, they are allso total idiots for wasting time on someone who is Clearly not a crook... I mean indeed, any black man could have been the bankrobber...

Well, at least het gets 20.000$... alot of people are willing to get accused and slapped around a bit to get that. Still, no price justifies such stupid behaviour.

You do know that the money comes out of the tax payers of that state right? When you think about it that way, your spending tax money paying people off because the police are acting like morons. What a waste.

And no there shouldn't be corrupt police. Its always unaccetpable to have corruption even if most are really good.

That's awful, that really is.

The main points I wanted to make seem to have been already made by others. The first being that there's a consequence to every action. Indeed, your friend deserves some restitution, but I think the $20 000 is more than fair. He could probably sue for more (or at least, he could have if the case was more publicized than it was); but, that money has to come from somewhere right? Police only have so much money in their operating budget. Perhaps $1 million for this case (which seems excessive, but it was the suggested figure) would translate into fewer police walking the streets next year. Perhaps not, but you see the point I'm making...people who sue institutions or corporations for excessive amounts of money are hurting more people than they realize (directly or indirectly causing layoffs and whatnot). There needs to be the threat of sanction and reprisal in order to keep these entities in check of course, but that recourse (vis-a-vis suing in this case) needs to be commensurate.

Furthermore, you can all bitch about the police as much as you want, but the fact is everyone makes mistakes, and I can promise you all that none of you would like this world very much if there were no police. Life is full of compromise...we have to sacrifice something to get something back (i.e. we have to take the good with the bad...there's no such thing as a perfect police force). Unfortunately for your friend, he ended up having to sacrifice more than the average person should, so again I reiterate that some compensation is in order (namely the $20 000 offered).

If they cut out the morons I would be more than happy to have a few less of them.

I agree with Ice, we need a police force regardless of our feelings towards them, but I am still deeply offended that such blatantly racist and bigoted people can become members of the police force, and then pull off actions such as this one and cost the tax payers thousands of dollars.

Originally Posted by icedawg

I can promise you all that none of you would like this world very much if there were no police.
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I think i would perfer people who protect the innocent people over courrupt people who work the system.

just my 2 cents

But nowhere near all police work the system. Even the ones who roughed up my friend. Yeah, they were out of line: They abused their power. But they weren't in any way working the system, they were just nasty people who like to throw around their power because it makes them feel tough. Honestly, I believe that they ought be banned, at least temporarily, from the police force and required to pay the $20,000 themselves. Why should the tax payers shoulder the burden of their irresponsibility?