Our Police State

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Waggs098

Ok I can see that but you could also say bringing knives into a house makes it less safe. How many people slit their wrists? How many would do whatever bad with a knife or sword if a gun wasn't in the house? How many people hang themselves? How many people are killed by being strangled?

I grew up where there were at least 30 guns on the property and me and my siblings were taught proper gun usage and safety.

Guns are worse because they make a deadly outcome so easy to happen. It's actually pretty hard to kill yourself by slitting your wrists. Most people who try that survive. The gun in the mouth? That works.

When you are taught proper gun usage and safety, that is very helpful as long as you are in a reasonable state of mind. If everyone in your family is always in a reasonable state of mind, you all are fortunate indeed.

[Waggs098]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Guns are worse because they make a deadly outcome so easy to happen. It's actually pretty hard to kill yourself by slitting your wrists. Most people who try that survive. The gun in the mouth? That works.

When you are taught proper gun usage and safety, that is very helpful as long as you are in a reasonable state of mind. If everyone in your family is always in a reasonable state of mind, you all are fortunate indeed.

Yes a deadly outcome is easier with a gun than a knife.

[Chicks]

How Police Unions Fight Reform
Activists insist that police departments must change. For half a century, New York City’s P.B.A. has successfully resisted such demands.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...s-fight-reform

[Chicks]

TENNESSEE TROOPER FIRED ...
After Ripping Mask Off Man Videotaping Traffic Stop

https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/15/state...ic-stop-fired/

Authoritarian asshole cop on a power trip. His actions are, sadly, all too typical for cops, and entirely illegal. Thanks to cellphones everywhere for exposing their brutality.

[Waggs098]

Originally Posted by Chicks

TENNESSEE TROOPER FIRED ...
After Ripping Mask Off Man Videotaping Traffic Stop

https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/15/state...ic-stop-fired/

Authoritarian asshole cop on a power trip. His actions are, sadly, all too typical for cops, and entirely illegal. Thanks to cellphones everywhere for exposing their brutality.

Well on that one people have a right to record openly in public. That cop was plainly being an ass and deserves the consequences afterwards.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

TENNESSEE TROOPER FIRED ...
After Ripping Mask Off Man Videotaping Traffic Stop

https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/15/state...ic-stop-fired/

Authoritarian asshole cop on a power trip. His actions are, sadly, all too typical for cops, and entirely illegal. Thanks to cellphones everywhere for exposing their brutality.

Assholes like that are drawn to the power of a badge and gun. Unfortunately in this country it's too easy for them to get and keep that badge and gun.

[Chicks]

White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says
A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and racist militant activities in more than a dozen states

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-police-report

White supremacist groups have infiltrated US law enforcement agencies in every region of the country over the last two decades, according to a new report about the ties between police and far-right vigilante groups.

In a timely new analysis, Michael German, a former FBI special agent who has written extensively on the ways that US law enforcement have failed to respond to far-right domestic terror threats, concludes that US law enforcement officials have been tied to racist militant activities in more than a dozen states since 2000, and hundreds of police officers have been caught posting racist and bigoted social media content.

The report notes that over the years, police links to militias and white supremacist groups have been uncovered in states including Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says
A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and racist militant activities in more than a dozen states.

Explains why they steadfastly deny any systemic racism.

[Chicks]

BLUE BLOODS: AMERICA’S BROTHERHOOD OF POLICE OFFICERS
To understand the citadel of law enforcement, we must reckon with its unions—which resemble fraternities more than labor unions.

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2...olice-officers

I am under no illusion that our Reich-wing members will actually read this, or anything else (they seem to be addicted to YooToob videos and Faux "News"). Imagine a world where they would actually read, though. They'd learn a thing or two. Sadly, they prefer to remain willfully ignorant, with propaganda substituting for insight.

[RickeyM]

The police unions and the GOP both have too much power both are dead set against relinquishing it.