The police in California seem like a gang.They seek revenge against suspects they don't like.Example choking,punching or kicking a handcuff suspect,while other police just stand there and do nothing because they don't want to look like a snitch.I know being a police officer is a hard job.How can they expect everyone else to obey the law when they don't even do.At least gang members don't hide behind a badge.Does this just occur in California,what about the other states? I hope there are police out there who respect the law.
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This is called police brutality, it is not condone anywhere in the United States. If you experience this, and you get no satisfaction for the internal affairs division of the local police department, I would suggest you contact the FBI and have it investigated under the civil rights statutes. You civil rights may have been violated by this brutality.
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I completely agree.. and have wondered that myself.. I had a bad year last year with getting speeding tickets.. I went from having a perfect driving record to getting 3 speeding tickets.. two for going  under 10 mph over the speed limit.. one was for 6 mph over and one was for 8 mph and one I wasn't even speeding and claimed I was going 15 over the speed limit.. I took that one to court and of course lost, because traffic court apparently is a joke.. anyways.. so I see all these cops speeding down the road, I now go the speed limit or under.. no more 5 over and they cruise past me.. I think they actually get aggravated that I'm going the speed limit when they are behind me.. alot of the cops I see speeding are ones that live in a different county (my county), then where they work, so you know they aren't on a call, they are just going to work.. what really upset me one day was this motorcycle cop was speeding past everyone, passing people left and right, it looked like he was in an emergency situation, only further down the road for him to pull off on the side of the interstate and whip out a radar gun.. I was so aggravated I wrote the city police dept and of course got the run around.. about police officers being responsible for their own speed.. blah blah... so yeah I don't think it's fair.. I think they need to obey the laws just like everyone else.
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Do you believe that social workers have to obey the law like anybody else?\n\nIf you try and sue them, you will find it difficult to find a law firm to take the case.\n\nIf you complain about them, they will all gang up against you.\n\nAlthought the Police are neutral, they may take the Social worker side.\n\nBashing socal workers seems to be OK. Just like bashing ordinary people. Some of them are so obnoxious that they would expect to get bashed occasionally.
252909
ABSOLUTELY.  Cops have been given entirely too much power and abuse it on a daily bases, AND they get away with it!  Most cops are those guys who were kicked around and stepped on in their school days...so they are out to get even when released into society with their shiny new badges!  Also, it doesn't matter if you are the victim or not, once they judge you, it's all over and then THE COPS victimize you one way or another!
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Well, my dad is not a cop, but I know kids whose fathers were, and the laws did not apply to them.  Whatever illegal thing the cop's kid did, the report "got lost" or witnesses "forgot" what they saw, etc.\n\nThen cops wonder why they are not respected.
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Um, I don't know why they bother to run, but nowdays there are helicopters and spy cams all over the city and they can dispatch other cop cars to come running at you from the direction you are going so the person will just be surrounded.  \n\nPlus, there is that new invention that is basically a gun that shoots a web that catches the person that is running.  So yeah, it's a pretty bad idea to run from the police.\n\nNot only that, but if the person would have just surrendered peacefully they would have been better off, but instead they chose to run and now when the cops do catch that person they are going to beat the sh*t out of them for running.
350978
Rotten apples are everywhere mate. But i know for sure that the US has the best police corps in the world, be proud of that. A good cop isn't a good cop if he allows mal practices from partners. Internal affairs would kick both asses and the so-called good cop would be sanctioned too...
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They are here already.Why would we even try to deport them all.Regardless of whether they broke the "law".That "law" has never been enforced.So why is eveyone screaming for the cops,all of a sudden.(here comes the sob story(They have lived here for years,decades.They have children that were born here.Most have been productive members of this society.They own homes and have no ties to their home countries.It is ridiculous and silly to say,"send them packin".\nNow not everyone had an opinion on this until the marches and the protesting.I would like to know why that pissed so many ppl off.They do have a right to do that.It is in our Constitution.Even if they are not citizens.\nLast.I am a citizen and I don't know where some ppl got their arrogance from.There is racism involved,and if you have ever experienced racism,you would know it doesn't feel good when someone hates you just because of you ethnicity.And it is even more fucked up when they think it's funny.Maybe I expect too much from my fellow? Americans.
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They kill.  That's what they're designed to do.  Without seeing one, I couldn't tell you what they're for.\n\nTurn them over to the cops.  Wait for one of the "amnesty" days if you're concerned about repercussions.  That said, most PDs would rather have them off the street than make life miserable for you.
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Because, in my experience, most cops are thugs.  But in their defense, they work with the scum of society and they believe that they have a ESP when it comes to picking out criminals.  Or at the very least they are seriously scarred from those people they deal with every day.\n\nPersonally, I think we need to clamp down on them and force them to behave in a way worthy of a role model, and not a loose canon.
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Its a case of if the criminal wants to break the law then he takes the consequences.  ALL police should be armed, that might make the toe rags think twice (thats if they have enough brain cells to think twice!) before they break the law...often endangering or stealing from honest hardworking people who stay within the law.  Im sure many will bleat "victimless crime" but theres no such thing, they all have have victims in one way or another!
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First point: you are talking about TV show.  Let's focus on reality, okay?\n\nSecond point: let's assume you're correct; police cannot fire back at someone who is holding a hostage.  We'd have an awful lot of dead cops and other people, wouldn't we?  The hostage-taker could just wade out into a sea of cops and start shooting them all because, using your logic, none of them would be allowed to shoot back since there was a hostage involved.\n\nThere are a couple of really excellent answers here already.  No law enforcement officer wants to kill an innocent person, *especially* a child.  However, no law enforcement officer wants to be killed, either.  \n\nLaw enforcement officers would obviously do whatever they could to avoid having to be in this situation, but when push comes to shove, I don't have to sacrifice my life for anyone else.  I can't stress enough how much I would not have to be in that position, but I also can't stress enough how much I want to go home at the end of the shift.\n\nYes - in televisionland there is always a SWAT team, and a helicopter and a sniper team and canine teams and everything else.  In reality, though, those things rarely exist when they're needed and it's up to some poor beat cop to decide how best to handle an absolutely unmanageable situation...and he or she will usually have about two seconds to make that decision.\n\nThere is no, "the rule" about these things.  Situations like this are extremely dynamic and are among the very top reasons why cops have nightmares.
460554
This is why people hate cops.  I'm a law abiding citizen, but I REFUSE to let a cop into my house for ANY reason.  I won't have it.  They can come into the yard, and I'll meet them out there to "talk".  When I build my house, I will have a "recieving area" in the front that will not have a direct entrance into the rest of the house.  \n\nSorry if it offends the good cops, but just like the criminals don't wear badges that say they won't resist arrest or aren't armed, I won't know if it's a dirty cop using sly tactics to set me up, or if it's just a legitmate conversation about what's happening.
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Ratboy is absolutely right.  Those cops should be punished.  If you have any evidence you should call your state's bureau of investigation and report it.\n\nPlease don't let them get away with it.
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Well since you did not give us any facts to go look at other then your opinion I don't see how that qualifies for much. Sounds to me like you are attempting to speak for the whole world when you say, "The police show up in force using Gestapo tactics scaring the crap out of most people.... This cant be good.". \nOnce again simply your opinion.\nWhy would society have an innate fear of law enforcement. Some people and it sounds to me like you are one of them are easily intimidated by law enforcement personnel and if so I suppose that might scare you but the general public is not.\nLess then one percent of Police Officers Nation wide are corrupt. That leaves 99 percent that are not. if police show up in force perhaps there is a reason for it or an Officer Safety concern. i assure you however Police do not always show up in force. On a barking dog call you will be lucky to get one respond to such a trivial matter but yet the public demands it. they want the dog quiet and the police become the SPCA in that case. When a child runs away from home the police do not storm the child's residence and use Gestapo tactics on the family, so once again you are wrong with your generalized statement. When someone's car gets taken in the middle of the night and the Police respond and take a report and enter the vehicle into NCIC so it might be recovered for you they don't storm your residence. When it turns out that you didn't pay your car payment and your vehicle was actually repossessed instead of stolen they do not issue you a citation for stupidity although I am sure some would like to.\nWhen a child drowns in a swimming pool and a Police Officer is the first on the scene and jumps in and drags the child out while the mother screams in panic because she does not know what to do for them and never took a course in first aid or CPR and the Officer revives the child and all live happily ever after, and yes, that time the Officer did storm the place like Gestapo to help the child with out stopping to remove the 125 pounds of body armor and boots and gun and belt and now a department radio he has to pay to get fixed but just dove in without concern for his/her own safety \nPolice Officers do a lot more then what you seem to think. But heck maybe we don't need them. Here is an idea maybe you will do all the things for us they do and what would be better is if you would do it for free.
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I'm a little wacky and I dig cops. I think it's just the handcuffs. I think it'd be great if the hubby came home from a hard day of work looking all like authority with those cuffs glinting brightly....... Or maybe those cops dig us chicks that dig the handcuffs.. Do cops dig their handcuffs? Seriously, do ya all take them home and put them to good use?
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I think our society is becoming more communist everyday. These laws are quietly passed by legislature to feed the government more money (you're right) You should really stop complaining and start getting involved with your government on a local level and on a state level. Write to your congressman and tell them how you feel. Might not change anything today, but if we all write and b!tch long enough, we may just get what we want, it worked for Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcolm X. Our forefathers in America bitched and fought hard for what we used to have- FREEDOM. As for COPS- These are puny pawns who enjoy being used by the government machine. They are small men and women inside, that's why they have to feel important carrying a gun and bullying little gals like you. Why do you think it takes 5-10 cops to pull over a black guy? Because they know they don't stand a chance, black men are lightening quick to disarm a cop of their bully weapon, and stand up to them on a man to man level. Women cops you say? The only female cop that pulled me over, didn't even come up to my car window, she called for 2 back-up squads. She didn't belong on a police force- she belonged in a quilting bee! (along with the other pu$$y cops)