Appalled By How Cop Handles Teenage Girl!

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I have less sympathy for this cop than cops in a lot of other situations. Cops in Baltimore and other high-crime areas get shot at and have to deal with violent criminals every day. But this cop works in McKinney, which is one of the nicest suburbs in the Dallas area. What I didn't realize until I just watched the news is that as of now he can't be charged for any crime because there is no formal complaint against him.

Yes, most cops, including black and hispanic cops, tend to become less racially open minded when they have to deal with the people in the 'hood. Having said that, I still don't think it's fair to automatically paint every police interaction with minorities as persecution.

No,but due to recent cases of police shooting unarmed civilians,the threat was there and it must have been terrifying
for the girl. What that policeman did is threatening behaviour,verging on a criminal offence itself.

That girl's going to be fearful of cops for the rest of her life.

We're living in the society that society as a whole has demanded. One where the cops come in and handle everything for us, albeit clumsily and/or thugglishly like cops will do.
"We need more police to fight the war on crime!!"
"We need more police to fight the war on drugs!!"
"We need more police to fight the war on terror!!"
"We need more police in the schools!!"
etc, etc, etc....

Well, here's you more police but we're certainly no better of in the bigger scheme of things. Don't look for it to go away anytime soon. We've made our bed and now we have to lie on it.

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Even some black cops think that running from the cops is not a bad idea, these days.

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It's really too bad that the police have lost the trust of such a huge segment of the American people. And the police have no one to blame but themselves.

I'm white and have never been in trouble with the police, rightly so. However, I've recently had occasion to be stopped twice for no reason and without incident. Both were BS stops and I felt very uncomfortable dealing with them, unlike anytime in the past. I don't trust cops. Most of my life, I felt safe while dealing with the cops. Now, I don't trust them anymore. When I say I don't trust them I don't just mean the 'bad cops'. I don't trust any of them anymore...

I don't trust the MFers either and think we'd be better of with fewer of them. However, I think a society without ANY police would be worse.

Let me say a few things first. I don't think all cops are bad. There are enough to make a really bad image. I also think a cop who doesn't report bad behavior is almost as guilty as the cop doing the behavior. I also think cops reporting other cops is a start in fixing the problem. However, I don't believe that will fix everything. Unfortunately, the bad cops are causing a significant decline in public trust, thus the uproar we see today. Lastly, white people have problems with cops too. It isn't simply a race issue. Things are complicated and there are grey areas...

This post needs a kind of a "Save a Donut. Kill a Cop." video...

P.S.: I do NOT advocate actually killing anybody. What needs to be known though is that, the more "punishment-based" a society, the MORE that "crime" will continue to exist in said society, and it's related to the types of punishments that are meted out. Take a look at the statistics of the types of crimes that occur in certain locations. Places that are full of thefts generally have theft-like punishments (e.g.: impounding of your vehicle™, confiscating of your property, etc), places that are full of killings tend to have more capital-punishment, places with lots of rape tend to have body-violating punishments (such as forced psychiatric-drugging), etc.

This is also NOT an accident, but entirely related to the kinds of punishments that are promoted & supported by any particular community, and if they pay/fund their police who impound a lot of cars, you will statistically see that the incidences of theft will be higher in that particular community than that of a less punishment-happy community if you research the actual statistics & correlated it with the types of punishments that are meted out by said community (therefore, stop with the types of punishments that themselves resemble criminal-activity, and you reduce that type of crime within said community [...because "karma" is over-powered since a crime is still a crime regardless of whether it's being done by "authority" or anybody "carrying a badge" or "officialdom" or "carrying out orders" or "authorisation" or "wearing a uniform" to commit said crimes, etc]).

Me either and I've met several good ones. One of my uncles retired as a police chief. I still don't trust cops as a whole. As a whole they tend to look at anyone not behind a badge as a criminal they just haven't caught yet.

That's not even gonna happen in the foreseeable future. It's that "them against us" mentality.Law enforcement is a fraternity.

Police/Race issues are what's in vogue now after what has happened in Missouri and Maryland. This could lead to them being reluctant to confront or apprehend blacks for fear of backlash.

Where do we disagree. I think you simply extrapolated what I said???