General Police Misconduct aka Murdering Black People

[DigitalChaos]

Best article I've seen about the police militarization issue:
http://www.steynonline.com/6524/cigars-but-not-close




just a few of the points:
- The Ferguson PD used as many bullets on Michael Brown as the Polizei used on ten million Germans.
- The biggest government in the free world chooses not to keep statistics on how many people get shot by law enforcement.
- A soldier wears green camo in Vietnam to blend in. A policeman wears green camo in Ferguson to stand out - to let you guys know: We're here, we're severe, get used to it.
- When an unarmed shoplifter in T-shirt and shorts with a five-buck cigar box in one hand has to be shot dead, you're doing it wrong.

[xmd 5a]

- When an unarmed shoplifter in T-shirt and shorts with a five-buck cigar box in one hand has to be shot dead, you're doing it wrong.

But he was going to make a THUG MARIJUANA BLUNT with them. And listen to the THUG RAP MUSIC.

/sarcasm

Killer Mike is pretty on-point here:

[DigitalChaos]

But he was going to make a THUG MARIJUANA BLUNT with them. And listen to the THUG RAP MUSIC.

/sarcasm

Killer Mike is pretty on-point here:

Pretty spot-on. But screw calling Mike Brown "a child." They did the same bullshit with Trayvon Martin. Everything else was solid though.


It's fucked up that nobody will know how police used to be outside of reruns of the Andy Griffith show. There have been many steps of separation between how things used to be. You no longer see locals policing their own neighborhood. You have cops come in from different counties to police. Now, you have the federal government providing funding and other resources to local police. That is fucked up and it pollutes the relationship that is supposed to exist. The only people who should be paying police are the very people who are being policed by them.


This also makes me think about a larger cultural thing beyond the police. People don't give a shit about their neighbors anymore. It's very rare to see people reach out to help someone. Everyone just keeps their head down. I think it's a mixture of many things (fear of being sued, a less responsible & respectful culture, fear of being hurt, etc) but it certainly has an impact on how individuals act in their communities too.

[allegro]

Best article I've seen about the police militarization issue:
http://www.steynonline.com/6524/cigars-but-not-close




just a few of the points:
- The Ferguson PD used as many bullets on Michael Brown as the Polizei used on ten million Germans.
- The biggest government in the free world chooses not to keep statistics on how many people get shot by law enforcement.
- A soldier wears green camo in Vietnam to blend in. A policeman wears green camo in Ferguson to stand out - to let you guys know: We're here, we're severe, get used to it.
- When an unarmed shoplifter in T-shirt and shorts with a five-buck cigar box in one hand has to be shot dead, you're doing it wrong.

Great article! Wait what about this part!?!? WTF

"NOTE: Several readers have queried my use of the term "shoplifter", insisting that this was a "strongarm robbery", the phrase du jour. It's not clear whether, legally speaking, this was any kind of robbery, in the sense of a prosecutable crime: The store owner did not report any theft and did not volunteer the video as evidence. Instead, the Ferguson PD went to a judge to get a court order to make the store owner cough it up on the grounds that it might contain something useful to them.

And then the chief says he had no choice but to release it because he was getting Freedom of Information requests for it. Which makes even less sense..."