“… by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert”
—Jean-Paul Sartre
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it’s not like the evidence to demonstrate the harms of terrible law enforcement practices is completely hidden, although it is sometimes hard to find.
still . . .
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Exactly. Which means that there is no such thing as a ‘Good Cop’; the default position to take is that the cop is not to be trusted; if they are trained to think of all non-cops as the Enemy, the only prudent thing to do is to respond in kind.
To think that cops will legitimately investigate themselves is folly on a level with ‘letting the Market decide’ re: ‘oorporate self-regulation’. It ain’t gonna happen, despite what the Libertarians & Fascist (formerly GOP) parties would have us believe
We need to keep in mind that these people are employees. Nothing less. Nothing more.
There is nothing special about them. other than the fact that they do a disagreeable, dangerous job, but Trash Collectors fill that job description & get paid far less.
And when was the last time you heard of a TV series about them, as opposed to the (dozens?) of shows about cops every season?
This is apalling beyond words, & the cops involved need to be regarded as sex offenders & treated as such.
‘11 minutes’? And they never ‘penetrated’? And her clothes just ‘fell off’?
Just who the fuck do they think is going to believe their blatant bullshit?
Clearly, a Grand Jury investigation into this is warranted.
And I notice that none of the sources that are linked in the article are local.
Hmmmm…
Looked at the date of the article re: the settlement:
Published January 24, 2018
No wonder I didn’t remember it. This happened over three hundred years ago (taking the Time Dialation effects of the previous Resident of the WH into account).
It is still an outrage, & the settlement is still a pittance.
It was also still back in 2018. Not ‘news’ by any means.
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Yep. And not all that dangerous, comparatively.
I’ve worked as a roofer, concrete mason, construction helper and on a farm, all of which have higher on the job mortality rates than cops.
But we didn’t make any “thin (color) line” flags.* We never talked about how dangerous our jobs were, or used it as an excuse to terrorize people.
*Though now I’m enamored of the idea of a “thin brown line” flag to show the only thing standing between you and starvation is all the farmers willing to do these jobs! (Kidding, but only mostly.)
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I’ve done various construction/industrial type jobs over the eons. No way in hell you’re getting me on a roof, though. Not above one story, anyway.
Or whined about how ‘nobody understands us’ & ‘we put our lives on the line every day’, etc, etc.
Firefighters are getting as bad as cops, but at least they don’t go around killing people.
My parents were raised on farms & I remember hearing horror stories growing up.
That ‘thin brown line’ flag could also apply to those who work in waste water treatment plants:
"We stand between you & an early death by $disease’.
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Yeah, but if there’s a hepatitis outbreak because of tainted irrigation water, you won’t see armies of farm and wastewater workers wearing tacticool riot gear and armed to the teeth committing thousands of acts of crop poisoning on video to… prove some kind of point but I don’t know what.
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Not trying to be an ass. It just clicked in my mind.
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I vaguely remember that show. Never watched it, though. Not sure I had a TV then, but I had friends who did,
Thanx for the info!
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