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We do know. They tell us, you're just not listening. https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759 https://medium.com/@OfcrACab

We do know. They tell us, you're just not listening. https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759 https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard... Here's a cop who tried to report on corruption within the NYPD. His squadmates got him thrown into an insane asylum. The NYPD, by the way, is larger and more heavily funded than most armies. https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/05/04/the-nypd-tapes-inside-bed-stuys-81st-precinct/ https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/05/04/the-nypd-tapes-insid... "desperately need police" We used to "desperately need police" to get injured and wounded people to hospitals. The reason why ambulances do it instead is because the doctors noticed that cops would sometimes beat the shit out of patients en route. https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2020/02/12/all-black-ambulance-service-inspired-todays-ems-system/ https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2020/02/12/all-black-ambulanc... What's wrong with divvy'ing up every responsibility of "the police" and handing those responsibilities off to trained professionals?

lawnchair_larry 6y ago
Your link does nothing to support your claim. It’s a single anonymous anecdote. That is only good for confirming biases, not for analysis of data. I notice you also didn’t post the rebuttal. Again. 800,000. It’s impossible not to have issues come up, and even bad departments that come and go. Obviously, they should be dealt with. And no, the reason you need police is not for hospital rides. Assuming we are talking about developed nations, the NYPD is not larger and more heavily funded that most armies, and that stat wouldn’t have any relevance anyway. Your last claim goes from intellectual dishonesty to outright lying. Nowhere does that article say or even imply anything about cops beating or otherwise mistreating patients.
- adamsea 6y ago
  “ A leaked 2015 counter-terrorism policy guide made the case more directly, warning agents that FBI “domestic terrorism investigations focused on militia extremists, white supremacist extremists, and sovereign citizen extremists often have identified active links to law enforcement officers”.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/28/fbi-far-right-white-supremacists-police https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr... Or just google about the LA Sheriffs department - notorious: “ For decades, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has struggled to combat secretive cliques of deputies who bonded over aggressive, often violent police work and branded themselves with matching tattoos. A federal judge called out the problem nearly 30 years ago, accusing deputies of running a “neo-Nazi, white supremacist gang” named the Vikings within the Lynwood station. Others followed with names such as the Regulators, Grim Reapers, Rattlesnakes and the Jump Out Boys.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-compton-sheriff-shooting-20180710-story.html%3F_amp%3Dtrue https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-...
  - lawnchair_larry 6y ago
    Yes, everything you just said is in violent agreement with what I said, although I suspect that was not your intention. The infamous LASD gang were largely hispanic, for what it’s worth. This meme that cops are secretly white supremacists is completely absurd, and it seems as though everyone perpetuating it did not actually read the reports they reference, because they absolutely do not say that, and honestly it’s a pretty disgusting allegation to cast so broadly. If you’re going to defame a whole group, be damn sure that you’re accurate. And maybe don’t list off examples that consist of white-minority departments with non-white police chiefs and non-white mayors...

lawnchair_larry 6y ago

Your link does nothing to support your claim. It’s a single anonymous anecdote. That is only good for confirming biases, not for analysis of data. I notice you also didn’t post the rebuttal. Again. 800,000. It’s impossible not to have issues come up, and even bad departments that come and go. Obviously, they should be dealt with. And no, the reason you need police is not for hospital rides. Assuming we are talking about developed nations, the NYPD is not larger and more heavily funded that most armies, and that stat wouldn’t have any relevance anyway. Your last claim goes from intellectual dishonesty to outright lying. Nowhere does that article say or even imply anything about cops beating or otherwise mistreating patients.

adamsea 6y ago
“ A leaked 2015 counter-terrorism policy guide made the case more directly, warning agents that FBI “domestic terrorism investigations focused on militia extremists, white supremacist extremists, and sovereign citizen extremists often have identified active links to law enforcement officers”.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/28/fbi-far-right-white-supremacists-police https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr... Or just google about the LA Sheriffs department - notorious: “ For decades, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has struggled to combat secretive cliques of deputies who bonded over aggressive, often violent police work and branded themselves with matching tattoos. A federal judge called out the problem nearly 30 years ago, accusing deputies of running a “neo-Nazi, white supremacist gang” named the Vikings within the Lynwood station. Others followed with names such as the Regulators, Grim Reapers, Rattlesnakes and the Jump Out Boys.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-compton-sheriff-shooting-20180710-story.html%3F_amp%3Dtrue https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-...
- lawnchair_larry 6y ago
  Yes, everything you just said is in violent agreement with what I said, although I suspect that was not your intention. The infamous LASD gang were largely hispanic, for what it’s worth. This meme that cops are secretly white supremacists is completely absurd, and it seems as though everyone perpetuating it did not actually read the reports they reference, because they absolutely do not say that, and honestly it’s a pretty disgusting allegation to cast so broadly. If you’re going to defame a whole group, be damn sure that you’re accurate. And maybe don’t list off examples that consist of white-minority departments with non-white police chiefs and non-white mayors...