Quote (Ghot @ Jun 7 2020 02:44pm)

I think everyone in PaRD who has been bitching about what an awful job the police are doing, should have to BE a cop for 10 years.

Then we could all come back and see how much their educated opinions have changed. :D

Quote (Ghot @ Jun 7 2020 02:28pm)

Ok, here's a great All - American example...

You're a cop, you're sitting in your car on the side of the road and someone comes by doing 50 in a 35mph zone. You turn on your lights and chase the speeder, pull him over and then have to go up to the car.

THINK about that car for a second. It's probably got all kinds of things all over the place inside the car. You stand to the rear of the driver's side window and tap on the glass, and say open the windows please.
The driver rolls down the window. The driver "looks" OK, and "seems" compliant. Little do you know he has a couple 100K of drugs in the car.

Because you're an experienced officer, you take everything slow, and keep in mind that anything could happen in a heartbeat.
The guy you just pulled over, in this scenario, knows he's going down for 20 years or so. He also happens to have a gun somewhere in the car or on his person.

Now me, I'm not the world's fastest person, but when I'm scared or looking at 20 years in jail, let me tell you... I would be able to move pretty fast.
Take one of your smaller lighter guns. Time yourself. How long did it take you to aim at a target 2-3 feet away and pull the trigger? One second, or maybe two if you're having a bad day?

ANY time a cop arrests someone, they HAVE to assume something like that can happen. If they don't... they won't be a cop very long.

I really wish I could post that video of the kids lighting the cop on fire in the Mexico, peaceful protest. There were young adults all around. No one was being especially rowdy.
One kid squirted lighter fluid all over the cops back and the other threw a match. Took maybe 2 seconds to happen.

I'm sure you could google that and watch for yourself.



These police officers that you are pretty much saying aren't well trained, etc. Have to deal with possibilities like this, every time they arrest or even approach... anyone.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Jun 7 2020 05:42pm)

I'm not making any comparisons. You asked where the numbers were coming from, I did a quick search and provided where the numbers come from.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Jun 7 2020 05:17pm)

PaRD has, for the last few days, made me very hopeful for the future. Everybody except the dumbest right-wingers (Ghot, Goom, Void, EndlessCry) have been on one side and everybody who is within throwing distance of moderate has been on the other on basically every issue. Hell, even disembodied head, the most boring right-wing shotposter, has been on the same side.

Quote (Handcuffs @ Jun 7 2020 05:35pm)

Okay and I agree with this sentiment about PaRD, but I cannot let you trash disembodied head like that. He is one of my favorite posters.

Quote (IceMage @ Jun 7 2020 05:19pm)

That group now controls the Republican party though.

I don't even know what meaningful reform would look like at a federal level, but it's not going to happen with Republicans in charge. They're too invested in white identity politics.

https://i.redd.it/m610twjexy331.gif

Quote (thundercock @ Jun 7 2020 06:43pm)

Minneapolis abolished their police department:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/us/george-floyd-protests-sunday/index.html

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Nine members of the Minneapolis City Council on Sunday announced they intend to defund and dismantle the city's police department following the police killing of George Floyd.

Council President Lisa Bender told CNN that with the nine votes the city council members would have a veto-proof majority of the council's 13 members.

Quote (IceMage @ Jun 7 2020 06:12pm)

https://i.imgur.com/5EZozf2.gif
Laboratories of democracy indeed.

Quote (thundercock @ Jun 7 2020 06:43pm)

Minneapolis abolished their police department:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/us/george-floyd-protests-sunday/index.html