police in us have become so reckless?
969994
First Shut UP! Second the cops are there to stop me from Kicking you in the Face. Third your part of the problem and people like you need to follow the rules and keep your anti police racist mouth shut. Do you Understand or do I have spell it out letter for letter.
962503
Honestly? I don't think our society (if you mean American society) has ever become sensitive to police brutality against young black men. Or black males of any age. \n\nHowever, it may seem like there has been a sudden shift in occurances of police brutatlity because they (police force) are getting worse in their out-of-control behaviour and actions. The cases of needless deaths of non-violent victims are occuring almost on a daily basis. It is dawning on people how corrupt the department, as a whole, has become. Officers shoot unresisting, unarmed men in the back now and it's outrageous and WRONG.\nIt is white and black men, white and black females.\n\nIt's disturbing. And it's scary. They're getting away with it, and being paid to do it. As a citizen of the general public, you don't even have to make 'a wrong move' to get shot to death today.\n\nAn 18 year old drunken boy was staggering to his own front door to get away from a frightening police squad and they shot him in the back 3 times because .... because why?\nHe was incoherently drunk, young, disoriented, scared and trying to get away from being pelted with beanbags. They had no provocation to shoot him but they did.\nHe was a white male.\n\nIn my opinion, it's not about race anymore (though for some officers it certainly is). For ALL police officers, it's about power now. If you do not surrender yourself completely to a police officer and show to them you are at their mercy, they will do whatever they have to, whatever they want to MAKE YOU. When their lights turn on, your rights are turned off.\n\nEver read the side of their vehicle?\nTo Protect and Serve. \nBut it isn't to protect and serve us. lol\nIt is to protect and serve themselves. \nWho are they?\nThey're employed by government.\nAnd that's exactly who they're going to protect. \nThey are merely an end result of our own government - which, clearly, is out of control and frankly, not at all ours anymore.
685509
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.
167920
I don't believe so.  I believe that standards and laws are what make much of our crime today.  When aomeone is constantly told not to do something then that makes them want to do it even more.  You know what I mean?  Even so, more rules means more people and forces to enforce these rules, and I don't know about where you live but Detroit had layed off much of their police officers and Detroit is known for being full of crime.  The more police there are the worse things seem to get!!!  Just my experience.
101354
Power corrupts and if you are a cop then that would be us and if they'd like they will prove it by showing you it is just-us.  If you think just-us is justice then you are part of the problem.  Thick corruption and a passive society of smacked asses.  Then too, the cop will say, "We can do that and you cannot.  Yet through it all, they are a neccesary evil in that there are those times when their assistance is needed: Even inside prisons.  Therefore what we have is a mixture of shit and honey.  Amen.
660894
I think it is because power and authority corrupts some people. Police officers have a lot of power over citizens and citizens have little recourse if you have no witnesses if a cop does something wrong to you. Many other people have power and authority that abuse it. Politicians, doctors, teachers, military personnel, supervisors, managers, big company CEO's, etc. Just to name a few. That's just the way it is.\n\nThe only way we can protect ourselves, is to protect our rights. Particularly the right to keep and bear arms, the 2nd amendment, ensures that we as Americans can protect the other rights that we have.
417945
I don't know why they think the police are so above reproach.Like you said, there is a small number of people in every police dept. who use the badge to brutalize people, and do illegal things under the guise of authority.
966750
Thats a very good question. I think, this being a sensitive issue in many places and with the ACLU and LULAC filing law suits everytime an American city even thinks about taking action, that many local police department have been instructed by higher ups not to get involved.
716325
The whole thing is very tragic. It's way to early to tell what happened. I do know that when Officers have made the desicion to use deadly force, they are trained to fire until the threat is neutralized, no matter if it takes one bullet or several hundred. A vehicle attempting to run down an Officer would be justification for the use of deadly force. Like I have said though, this is too early to tell and no one should make any "Knee Jerk" judgements until all the evidence is in and the investigation is complete.
806689
This clown of a president and his buddies have turned our country into a police state. They've made us the laughing stock of the world not to mention this quagmire he got us into in Iraq.\nHopefully today the balance of power will shift away from these religious WACKOS who are screwing up the country.
984334
Everything seems to be going that way. With every new law passed great strides are being made in that direction. Exactly the same in US and UK.\nBut what else can you expect when the same evil organisation owns the Federal Reserve, controls all political parties, manages the medical systems, organises all education, controls oil, controls food, controls water, is in charge of the military and secret services,  manipulates the value of the dollar, runs the drug cartels - both legal and illegal, etc etc.\nIt is already a police state - but done so subtly that nobody realises it. Its just a little extra each day, so gentle that it is all accepted.\nNow the situation is that absolutely anybody can be decalered an enemy combatant, arrested under laws of terrorism, imprisoned without charge for the rest of their lives, with no recourse to law. Isn't that  a fair definition of a police state!
274194
Yep I used to be a police officer and saw several people issued tickets for speeding in revese. One of these individuals was clocked at nearly 50 mph coasting down hill.  Others were charged with reckless driving, stop sign violations and failure to use turn signals.  I  was even with another officer who issued 3 tickets for driving too slow to the same person during three seperate stops in less than 1 mile.
914000
The jails are too full as it is. The cop had every legal right to take you to jail though. That's definitely an arrestable offence. Reckless driving. I kinda got that myself once upon a time
480596
i just wish police officers themselves would respect the law.  in nyc they often shoot at poor inner city youth and generally violate civil rights.\n\nlay off the steroids boys in blue and get a copy of the constitution...when you learn how to read that should be on your summer list of good things to scrutinize.
814584
When could they ever control the people, law enforcement for the most part is just as corrupt as the government.  Now they are coming over here and trying to do the same thing.  They are destroying our benifits programs that we worked so hard to create.  They are bending laws and trying to take some of them out of effect or twisting them to their own advantage.  they must be stopped before it's too late.
437896
Yes, that is going on here in Utah too. Over the weekend police were ever pulling people over who were hispanic & asking them for papers. it's awful & it's seperating so many families who depend on these people.
640516
Never heard of it. It's not the general publics' responsibility to ENFORCE the laws, just to abide by them. It's the police that do the enforcing ... at least that's what I think.