Not All Cops Are Trigger-Happy Rednecks

[Babale]

It would be helpful if the OP could link to the post of the person who claimed that "All Cops Are Trigger-Happy Rednecks", because I can't find it.

It's not a direct quote. I was responding to the hate shown towards cops in general in every "Bad Cop Thread".

Face it, humans become really crass and base entities when they get a taste of unadulterated power

But cops don't have unadulterated power. They are subject to the law (At least in theory, although in some places that is not the case. But the bad cops are not the problem in those places, the whole society is).

U.S. police forces, in my opinion/experience, seem to be trained to harness that unadulterated power as a valid source of their "civil calming" mandate. It's hating the way the cop is used, not the person in the cop uniform.

Care to share your experience? I'm not saying you're lying or anything like that, I just want to hear why you think that so I can make my own judgement.

Yeah, we should all just lay off, and let the cops shoot anyone they want, whenever they want, without us raising so much as a peep.That'd encourage high levels of professional responsibility on the force, for sure.

So if the drug dealer looks like he's taking out a gun and is about to fire it, the officer should wait until he gets hit by the first bullet before firing back? I know someone gave an example of a cop who did wait and it turned out to not be a gun, but in that example, if the woman had a pistol, she could have shot and killed the cop, or an innocent bystander.

You're wasting your time babale with this topic on this board.

How so? I'm not trying to change someone else's opinions, I'm just putting mine out there through a min-rant that leads to a debate.

That doesn't mean every one who works with children is a pedophile, but there IS a higher chance of a daycare worker or scout leader being a pedophile than say electricians or lawyers.

But how many people do you know who call scout leaders in general evil or facist? Or the equivelent of Evil and Facist for a pedophile?

99.9? Lets start around 67.2

OK, 99.9 was an hyperbole that was meant to convey "the large majority". I did not mean for it to be taken literally. I appologise.

But is 67.2 not a hyperbole, too, but in the other direction?

The problem with so many big-talking cop defenders like the OP is that they are so keen to stomp all over any criticism that they turn from defenders of good cops into apologists for bad ones. That's the only way to explain numbers like "99.9%."

I'm not a big-talking cop defender except for when I rant. Like I said, the 99.9 thing was not meant to be taken literally. I agree that something has to be done to lower the numbers of bad cops, probably something drastic. I never said there were no bad cops. But I do believe that the media portrays cops as much, much worse than they actually are. At the end of the day, when you are the victim of a crime, the cops (generally) are the ones you want at your side.

acting like bullies happens far more than simple-minded morons like the OP are willing to admit. Because if 99.9 percent of cops were, in fact, great cops, we'd hear virtually no stories about police intimidation or brutality or illegal activities.

Alright, I'm very sorry for the hyperbole. It was out of line and is causing a huge hijack. Now can we stop with the insults? (Although that was pretty mild for the Pit...)

If good cops were more willing to denounce and help get rid of the bad cops instead of protecting and covering for them i would be a lot more willing to give them any respect. The way i see it there is bad cops and those who enable them to continue being bad cops.

That is true. I am not sure exactly how much a good cop can do to stop a bad cop without risking personal damage (And if the police looses a good cop because he tried to take down a bad cop, the loss of the good cop could arguablly do more damage than the shutting down of a bad cop).

Nothing would benefit the police force more than the weeding out of bad cops, and the fact that the force hasn't done this yet is probably its biggest flaw. But comments that compare cops in general to Nazis dishonor the good cops, who are still the majority.