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I read these kind of articles for years now. Why isn't there anything done about this? The Police in the US is just corrupt and must be dealt with. I would lov

I read these kind of articles for years now. Why isn't there anything done about this? The Police in the US is just corrupt and must be dealt with. I would love the visit the US sometimes, but stories like this just make me feel like the US is just a very dangerous place to be. Not because of the people with guns, but because of the police that is as corrupt as any 3rd world country's police.

pjc50 11y ago
I say this as a non-American, but there seem to be two Americas. The first one is the Norman Rockwell vision of plenty and freedom. It really is like that - for some people, mostly white (or at least not black), in some places. Given how big America is, that means there are tens of millions of people who never see the bad side. Or when they do, assume that those involved deserved it. The other side of the coin is for the people who end up on the wrong side of the internal colonialism. There's a lot of brutality there, but (like with many 3rd world or marginal countries) it's avoidable as a tourist. The one thing you do have to make sure as a tourist is not to get in trouble with the border check agents.
- vinbreau 11y ago
  I have a friend, ex-military, very clean cut, pretty 'normal' guy. His brother is a cop. We both grew up in the same rural area. I used to be a punk kid, crazy hair and clothes, but a good kid, definitely not a criminal. I was constantly harassed by police, even had to file charges once against a cop who assaulted me on private property at my father's place of employment. My view of the cops is very different from him. He gets absolutely offended if I talk bad about cops. He really sees them as noble people with only a few bad apples. He says people like me just like to talk up the bad cops to make the rest look bad. Or it was my own fault for being so outside societal norms that of course I would be the target of constant suspicion.

pjc50 11y ago

I say this as a non-American, but there seem to be two Americas. The first one is the Norman Rockwell vision of plenty and freedom. It really is like that - for some people, mostly white (or at least not black), in some places. Given how big America is, that means there are tens of millions of people who never see the bad side. Or when they do, assume that those involved deserved it. The other side of the coin is for the people who end up on the wrong side of the internal colonialism. There's a lot of brutality there, but (like with many 3rd world or marginal countries) it's avoidable as a tourist. The one thing you do have to make sure as a tourist is not to get in trouble with the border check agents.

vinbreau 11y ago
I have a friend, ex-military, very clean cut, pretty 'normal' guy. His brother is a cop. We both grew up in the same rural area. I used to be a punk kid, crazy hair and clothes, but a good kid, definitely not a criminal. I was constantly harassed by police, even had to file charges once against a cop who assaulted me on private property at my father's place of employment. My view of the cops is very different from him. He gets absolutely offended if I talk bad about cops. He really sees them as noble people with only a few bad apples. He says people like me just like to talk up the bad cops to make the rest look bad. Or it was my own fault for being so outside societal norms that of course I would be the target of constant suspicion.