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In this mornings news articles on Reddit:
After a beat down in an elevator, Joshua Daniel Ortiz ended up with his nose broken and facing a charge of battering a Fort Lauderdale police officer.
The 22-year-old Sunrise man was surprised and delighted to learn Wednesday that Broward prosecutors were dropping the case against him after reviewing an elevator surveillance video showing three officers aggressively rush and beat Ortiz to the ground.
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Sure there are good cops; but a daily dose of bad news cops in the media tends to make people distrust them and have as little to do with cops as possible. I know people who either distrust cops so much or have so little confidence in their ability that they don't bother reporting crime any more. Until the police takes the bad cop / officious cop problem seriously they will not have the public's trust and support.
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I've left WP indefinitely.
The basic problem is one of us against them. A community without a police force has more problems than one with the police, but the constant interaction of the police with criminals naturally puts any resistance of police enforcement by even innocent people into criminal activity in the eyes of the police. The results of the occasional tragic deaths of innocents makes the interaction even worse. In effect, in any local incident, the cop has absolute power and you know what that engenders.
I don't like cops. They speed all over the place and stick their chests out like they are important, yet when you need them they don't respond unless it's an easy call that is non-threatening to their safety. They accept the rewards of being thought of as heroes, yet they basically just give out tickets. They will purposely show up late to a violent dispute in order to avoid any conflict and their real job is to fill out paperwork after the fact. I don't like cops. The ones I knew were jerks who got off on the power. Plus, cops are always trying to scam of women. They are the biggest cheaters. This works in our favor to get out of tickets, but their poor wives...
They cheat even more than male doctors do! I don't like ego maniacs, especially when they are dweebs. People who gravitate toward jobs that give them power are usually dweebs.
Female cops are more regular for the most part unless they act like dudes. Except, this one female cop who wasn't masculine, gave me my first ticket and asked for a bribe very subtly. I told her I didn't have cash but I could go the ATM and she said that could work if I did it right then. I was sort of confused and naive because I was only 16. She wound up giving me a ticket because I get the money right then. But, I went to the police station later that night with the $50 and handed to the cops working there saying that she said if I gave her the money it wouldn't go on my record. They just looked at me speechless, took the money, and I walked away. It never did go on my record.
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As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
-Pythagoras
