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Originally Posted by Ptech
Jeez, I'm glad that wasn't directed at me! 
I agree completely with what you say, and I sure wasn't trying to let the cops off the hook for their behavior.
My grandfather was a cop, and I have a few good friends who are cops, so I know that by and large their intentions are good.
And I'm back to my original point that poor law, as Kana agreed to in general terms,  can have terrible side effects for society. Unintended consequences, as they say.
And the jury just acquitted the cops in New Yawk for the murder of the young black. The jury must have been bought, or perhaps just racist. |
Not at you, naturally.
Do not get me wrong, there are great numbers of caring, motivated, and professional acting policemen. When doing legitimate police activities they can literally be saviors.
You are both also quite correct in that the increasingly focus of their jobs is vice and that spawns more of a scenario for police abuses.
We three's views on vice laws are consistent and well known
In these cases, however, I pin the tail on the jack-ass individual cops. I pin it on whichever one was the ranking officer. I pin it on the Sherriff for defending and excusing something he knows was a wrong. Something he knows goes against his own office's procedures.
BTW, looking at the tape I'm not quite buying the woman's story either. Having delt with prima-donna, drunk, battling women on way to often of a basis I can definitely spot certain qualifiers telling me this woman was out of control and being as uncooperative as she could possibly be. The strip search's existence was mandated when she flippantly answered the suicide question, which legally left the police responsible for her hanging herself with her clothing. It's the guy's participation that I question, tho there may be a reason such as a lack of female officers. That wasn't the reason given, which is why I censor the Sherriff's office's response.