Police State

[Skull Pilot]

Zero tolerance is the problem. Lazy ineffectual School teachers and administrators bowing to the prevailing mood of liberal feel good blame no one attitudes. Zero tolerance is code for " I am to lazy to make a judgement call" That is why when a 6 year old boy kisses a 6 year old girl he gets arrested and convicted of sex crime. Why when an honor student has a knife by accident in her lunch she is expelled and charged with a crime.

They did not do anything wrong, but the school and the law are to lazy to make judgement calls.

In Florida a few years ago the Valedictorian of a High School was in the process of moving from her parents house to her own place in the process a steak knife got left on the floor board of her passenger side front seat. Someone saw it from the window reported it and the school called the County Sheriff's office. The school has a zero tolerance police but this Sheriff did not. He refused to arrest her or to charge her.

That aside NONE of the given examples indicate a "police State" they indicate our schools gone stupid.

Zero tolerance = zero intelligence.

 

[mss.clough]

school teachers are the ones that need therapy and hand cuffs.

 

[FA_Q2]

And cops should not be arresting kids for using perfume even if some idiot teacher says they should.

Someone has to use their brain around here.

The background in each incident is missing. Making a judgment "the cops are out of control" is absurd based on the few facts presented.

Citizens are placed in handcuffs for the protection of others and the person detained.

It always amazes me that people say cops can do no wrong. Get real. There are bad cops too. Most are decent people but sometimes the stress can get to them and sometimes they become desensitized that they are dealing with people who may be innocent. And sometimes the system (good old buddy system) steps in.

When Chicago police answered a domestic disturbance call at the home of Tiawanda Moore and her boyfriend in July 2010, the officers separated the couple to question them individually. Moore was interviewed privately in her bedroom. According to Moore, the officer who questioned her then came on to her, groped her breast and slipped her his home phone number.

Robert Johnson, Moore's attorney, says that when Moore and her boyfriend attempted to report the incident to internal affairs officials at the Chicago Police Department, the couple wasn't greeted warmly. "They discouraged her from filing a report," Johnson says. "They gave her the runaround, scared her, and tried to intimidate her from reporting this officer -- from making sure he couldn't go on to do this to other women."

Ten months later, Chicago PD is still investigating the incident. Moore, on the other hand, was arrested the very same afternoon.

Her crime? At some point in her conversations with internal affairs investigators, Moore grew frustrated with their attempts to intimidate her. So she began to surreptitiously record the interactions on her Blackberry. In Illinois, it is illegal to record people without their consent, even (and as it turns out, especially) on-duty police officers.

"This is someone who is already scared from being harassed by an officer in uniform," said Johnson. "If the police won't even take her complaint, how else is a victim of police abuse supposed to protect herself?"

Chicago State's Attorney Lets Bad Cops Slide, Prosecutes Citizens Who Record Them

Even more sad is the asinine laws that prevent such recordings to take place. Far from being illegal, it should be damn near mandatory that on duty cops are recorded in some form or another. It holds them accountable and garners evidence when they catch the real criminals. Cops don't like it because they like being able to break the law. Really asinine. The cops police us but who polices the cops? The people should and they have no way of doing so if cops are kept 'off the record.'

As far as police state, the examples may not highlight just how far we have slid recent legislation should be enough to tell you that there is something massively wrong in the direction we are taking. If we are not headed in the direction of a police state then why do we have the recent defense authorization act, the TSA and the patriot act to name a few. We are, indeed, headed in the WRONG direction.

 

[FA_Q2]

Zero tolerance = zero intelligence.

Indeed, such policies are asinine. Law, rightfully so, takes more into account than lines in the sand and should NEVER be reduced to such.