320 Years of History
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I recently saw the video from the police car that depicted that boy who got shot and killed for supposedly threatening a cop with a knife. Seeing it, I could only wonder just how often it happened that cops misrepresented the facts of an event in which they participated, be it a relatively innocuous traffic infraction to weightier matters.
One thing about that video that has me baffled and that I've not seen directly addressed is this. Just how many cops out there not only lack integrity, but also are dumber than daytime television? Knowing that the event was being recorded, how could the multiple cops have each documented the event completely differently? I can only suspect that some, maybe many, cops truly are the dullards I've long thought they are -- without exception the handful whom I've encountered personally are, by and large, mental midgets -- and that makes me wonder what manner of chicanery allowed them to pass the tests required to join the force.
Interestingly too, I have have an incredibly hard time finding any remarks from prominent Republicans on the matter, anything having to do with the matter. Where's all the typical GOP rhetoric about being the party of "Joe Plumber?" Where's all the rhetoric about the rights of the individual? Now, the GOP's comparative mumness on the matter wouldn't be a thing to mention but for all the rancor the GOP makes in that regard in other situations. Where is the loud conservative outcry for the wrong that was done to Master McDonald? One would think that they'd jump at the opportunity to stand up for the kid. After all, it's not everyday that the GOP get an easy opportunity to "represent" for anyone like that boy. Instead we hear from them little but silence.
About the Poll Question:
The question doesn't ask what you "want to believe/think," it asks what you truly believe to be so. If you have any reference materials that you can point to showing that what you believe has some merit, please share them. Otherwise we'll just assume you think what you think absent any real evidence.
The documents I've read on the matter after seeing the Laquan McDonald video:
One thing about that video that has me baffled and that I've not seen directly addressed is this. Just how many cops out there not only lack integrity, but also are dumber than daytime television? Knowing that the event was being recorded, how could the multiple cops have each documented the event completely differently? I can only suspect that some, maybe many, cops truly are the dullards I've long thought they are -- without exception the handful whom I've encountered personally are, by and large, mental midgets -- and that makes me wonder what manner of chicanery allowed them to pass the tests required to join the force.
Interestingly too, I have have an incredibly hard time finding any remarks from prominent Republicans on the matter, anything having to do with the matter. Where's all the typical GOP rhetoric about being the party of "Joe Plumber?" Where's all the rhetoric about the rights of the individual? Now, the GOP's comparative mumness on the matter wouldn't be a thing to mention but for all the rancor the GOP makes in that regard in other situations. Where is the loud conservative outcry for the wrong that was done to Master McDonald? One would think that they'd jump at the opportunity to stand up for the kid. After all, it's not everyday that the GOP get an easy opportunity to "represent" for anyone like that boy. Instead we hear from them little but silence.
About the Poll Question:
The question doesn't ask what you "want to believe/think," it asks what you truly believe to be so. If you have any reference materials that you can point to showing that what you believe has some merit, please share them. Otherwise we'll just assume you think what you think absent any real evidence.
The documents I've read on the matter after seeing the Laquan McDonald video:
- Proving the Lie: Litigating Police Credibility
- Survey of police integrity -- It seems that this survey's results may not be that accurate -- at least as goes its portrayal of the relationship between incident severity and police malfeasance.
- Report on police corruption
- Crime corruption and cover-ups in the Chicago Police Department
- Research on Trends in Police Corruption
- An Institutional Explanation for the Corruption of Criminal Justice Officials
- Ethics and the Police