What are the attitudes of Democrats towards police use of force?
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The demacrats dont think using fors if thare has not ben a a need for it.\n\nthe repulican bleev that if thare is a posabilty thare will be a need some whare thay mite use it.\n\nthe dimacrats make sher whay thay are going to use for for is justifyed.
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Most people feel uncomfortable around the police or any authoritative figure.\nOnce I stepped outside the house with a bag full of rubbish to put in the dustbin. Standing outside was a policeman in uniform. (The next door neighbour's brother)\n'Hello' say I 'Just putting the rubbish out'. \nHow dumb.
476111
*TROOPERS*\n BOY POLICE COME AFTER US EVEN WHEN YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG!!! I THINK THEY LIKE THEIR SIRINS TO GO OFF AND MAKE NOISE..(LOL)!!!\nP.S THE ONLY TIME I LIKE A POLICEMEN IS WHEN THERE HOT LOOKING..AND US WOMEN KNOW WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THERE..HELP SOMEONE IN NEED LIKE IN DANGER..AND PROTECT OUR KIDS THAT OUR ON OUR STREET FROM HARM AND DRUGS AND STUFF!!!\n~BLESSINGS~\n LYNDA R.LEAVY
15985
Most people look at the fire fighters as heros...Most people look see police as a threat even if they are not doing any thing wrong.
1024591
No. Just look at them. Their riot police looks more terrifying than imperial warriors from "Star Wars", and even their normal police is armed to their teeth all the time and quite aggresive.\nBut most important of all, the current German police includes a large number of former East German policemen, whose job and duty was predominantly the oppression of the people and their opinions and expressions of freedom.
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It worries me too.Such a move would almost certainly turn an,at least apparently,lawful,democratic country into an abusive Police State.\nIf you are still looking for a really Gestapo-like approach to law and order,police abuse and horrendous abuses of human rights,Vote Rudy Giuliani in 2008!\n\n\n"Freedom is about authority.Freedom is about the will of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do"\n                                                                    (Rudolph Giuliani)
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The governments henchmen and stealth tax collectors usually.\nIn my towns police HQ there are 2 desks manned until 10pm.\nOne has an ignorant apathetic arrogant civilian clerk and the other is marked "immigrants only".Paid to sit there all day evertday on the off chance that an immigrant may come in.Yet the police moan about lack of resource funding.\nI think no one has respect for the police anymore, since mrs thatcher left govt, the recruiting standard has drpped off the radar \nNow we have a force of semi illiterate , 4'10" ,gay, politically correct creeps with chips on their shoulders.and the higher up the ranks the worse they get!\nI know its getting a little cliched , but catch some real criminals, instead of spying on us , collecting our data for "our own protection" and bullying hard working taxpaying motorists.
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im sure everyone has their own opinon, in mine i would have to agree with you. the police just have this cocky way of doing things...why? bc they wear a uniform. in my home town a few weeks ago two officers shot and killed an african american man. they were both white. they went to arrest him with a warrant of violation of probation. why were there two guys? they say he ran inside and hid in the bathroom with a shot gun. come to find out he didnt even own a gun and was babysitting his 5 year old nephew.... they shot him while he was holding his nephew....thats screwed up...
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i respect the good cops. my uncles a cop and i hear stories about how he's chased drug dealers. i just hate those few cops who take bribes and help gangs.
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Police officers are taught to use their baton, or any force for that matter, as part of an overall escalation of force.  First and foremost\n\n1. Verbal.  Any cop who doesn't know how to diffuse most problems with his command presence should turn in his badge and get a job at Home Depot.\n\n2. Weaponless defense. (this is why I think all police officers need more training in the martial arts - or just be stronger than most of the general public.  (it would cut down on the use of higher level weapons.\n\n3. Mace, pepper spray or equiv.\n\n4. Baton.  A flex baton works the best.\n\n5. If all else fails, and the person is committing a felony and their is imminent danger which could result in death or great bodily injury to the officer or someone else, then the use of firearms is usually appropriate.
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Oddly, there are some really good answers here.  I usually have to wade through all the donut cracks and Patriot Act garbage to see anything worth reading.\n\nHowever, the question leaves something to be desired.\n\nYou've said you hate to generalize, but that's exactly what you done, and you've done it on a grand scale.  On what do you base your hypothesis that cops get annoyed when people exercise their rights?  Talking about the Los Angeles Police Department alone, there's right around 10,000 cops there.  Your question makes it sound like you've witnessed an awful lot of them get annoyed when people exercise their rights...and that's just Los Angeles.  I'm assuming you don't know, and haven't watched, even 0.01% of the law enforcement officers in this country do their jobs and yet your question assumes cops get annoyed when people exercise their rights, that "almost all" law enforcement officers want people to know as little as possible about their rights, and that "every" time people exercise their rights, the police are "always" there ready to violate them.\n\nSounds to me like you have an agenda.\n\nHaving said that, I'm sure some cops do get annoyed, that they do it for the reasons others have mentioned here, and probably for other reasons as well.  Some cops are jerks...and so are some lawyers, some dentists, some plumbers, some senators and some housewives.  As a group, though, we take an awful lot of precautions in the hiring practices for people who are given the authority they are...something few other career fields do.  \n\nPersonally, I am one of the exceptions you say "may" exist.  I dealt with a 16 year old kid recently who adamantly refused to allow me to search his car.  I was very impressed with the way he communicated his wishes to me and his exercise of his right to be free from unreasonable search - and I told him so.  Then I searched his car, because it reeked of marijuana (which, as it turned out, is because marijuana was in it).  And no, he didn't get a ticket...the weed was destroyed, I thanked him for his time, and he drove away somewhat surprised.  I know I am not alone in my profession when it comes to my respect for people exercising their rights.\n\nAnd having said that, I have two last comments:\n\nI have been annoyed by people who *thought* they were exercising their rights.  People who stand there and demand to have a lawyer before they decide which chemical test to take (no such right in California), people who demand to see a search warrant that allows me to search a vehicle (don't need one, in 99% of cases), people who think they know the laws of arrest ("you can't arrest me, you didn't see me do it") when very often we don't have to actually witness a crime to make an arrest.  I don't mind people asking, and I will bend over backwards to answer and educate them, but this holier-than-thou, I'll-have-your-badge, I-know-the-law-better-than-you, and of course, I-know-my-rights-and-you-can't-do-that attitude does get annoying after a while.  \n\nI don't make enough money to go around violating someone's rights because I couldn't afford the punishment if I did...I don't know a single cop who does.  I know there are certainly some idiots out there who have, but if you consider the total number of police officers in this country, and the relative scarcity of news related to this topic, I hope you'll see that perhaps you aren't giving the profession a fair shake.  Sure...when we screw up we do it BIG...but we really don't do it as often as you're making it sound.  \n\nSorry for the length...it's a subject I could talk about for quite a while.
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i don't like democrats, simply because they want to put everyone on welfare and tell them that it's alright to not have a job because you are depressed.\nSome people will work very hard to support you but you do not have to contribute to society except to spread your legs (again) and have more kids that you can't afford. \nDemocrats also believe that illegal aliens should have more rights than tax paying American citizens.
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It is really a much smaller per centage than the media makes it out to be.  Most good and law abiting citizens \nappreciate most of the work the police do for us.\n\nThe one that complains are the ones that have a chip one their shoulder, and would complain about anything......
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I love the FACT that genuine liberals (not to be confused with "Democrats") are peace and dignity oriented and do not approve of violence and do not approve of preparations for violence.  \n\nBy my definition, only about fifteen percent of Americans are genuinely liberal: opposing all forms of punitive and oppressive legislation; opposing the death penalty and supporting strong gun control laws. Only about 15 percent. We all tend to appreciate similars over dissimilars, and I am no exception: I love them most!!
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Remember the CS Gas spray?? That was issued so that the police had a "LAST LINE OF DEFENSE" When they felt that they were in "Immediate physical danger" \nThey use the stuff for crowd control in our town on a friday night -I have seen it with my own eyes.\nI have had police sneering at me and making comments deliberately to goad me into violence on busy weekends. \nThe magistrates are so far up their own arses that they cannot see what they have on the streets feeding them their stock in trade! \nThe police FORGET that they are public servants and that they are paid BY US! As I grow older I become less and less trusting of them as a force and less likely to help them should I ever be called upon to do so. \nThey do a difficult job no doubt, but they forget that they are there to SERVE and respect members of the public, but from what I have seen, the public need protection from them and their arrogant abuse of power.
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I chose to be a Democrat because I felt they were the party of the people. The party that showed tolerance to alternative lifestyles, believed in civil rights, believed in personal choice and believed in human rights.\nI don't condone violence or torture under any circumstance. I also believe that we as a party, at least try to stick up for the downtrodden. Above all I believe we as Democrats are more willing to take in the people who previously held other views without prejudice and not alienate them to cut off our nose to spite our faces--therefore truly striving to be a party of the people.
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If he had said something like, "I want every person in town to get a gun and kill all the police officers", then perhaps he could be charged with inciting violence.  Most successful public speakers are schooled enough to know better than to do that sort of thing, though.  You can skirt the issue fairly closely if you wish such as by saying something like, "If the police break the law, we may be forced to break the law ourselves".  See, that gives some insulation to the speaker, because the police are not supposed to be breaking the law in the first place, right?  The story in the website just said the speaker stated they might resort to 'weapons of warfare' if a repeat occurred.  There are all kinds of weapons of warfare, including psycological and rhetorical.  One note I'll add though is that a just government has no need to fear an armed public.  One of the main reasons for including the second amendment to the constitution was to assure the people the means to resist an oppressive government.  I'm a cop, but if a whole section of my town wanted to party in the street (sans violence and looting, of course), I'd back off and let 'em.  No need to clear the street unless fire department or ambulance crews need to get through.