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treestar

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27. Most of them aren't involved in these things
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 05:24 PM
Jun 2020

Most of them make decisions that are perfectly fine. When you want to zero in on the bad, you can always find it, but it's another matter to generalize to everyone. There are bad lawyers out there yet nobody blames the good ones for them. Other professions don't get this.

And what they do in other countries might be an idea for changes, but some seem to be judging the cops now as it these types of changes were already made. This is the country with the war on drugs, the war on crime and the war on terrorism. The same country that lionized law enforcement and security for two decades and now blaming the cops for the results, all the money spent on them and all the military equipment given them. As a society, we did that.

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That one certainly needs a vacation. Or shouldn't have been a cop in the first place. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #1
I still say she was a fake. grumpyduck Jun 2020 #2
I agree snowybirdie Jun 2020 #13
Stacy Talbert, deputy from McIntosh County, Georgia. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2020 #17
Stacy Talbert, deputy from McIntosh County, Georgia. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2020 #16
Thank you both. I sit corrected. grumpyduck Jun 2020 #19
Soooooo many people want to wish this away. Jirel Jun 2020 #20
Their time is precious and they have important work to do dalton99a Jun 2020 #3
I suspect that she was crying over the general sense... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #4
Gee, I wonder why. Aristus Jun 2020 #5
Yeah, some people live in a fantasy world. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #7
Not only that... Cracklin Charlie Jun 2020 #6
It wasn't over it being late customerserviceguy Jun 2020 #8
We can't afford cops who crack under pressure. Aristus Jun 2020 #9
I agree customerserviceguy Jun 2020 #10
Tears are not a sign of cracking under pressure. delisen Jun 2020 #11
Convincing oneself that people are poisoning your Egg McMuffin kind of is... Aristus Jun 2020 #12
I don't have a link to the post, but someone posted verified cases of food tampering done to cops. cwydro Jun 2020 #14
I know the incident with the milkshakes in NYC turned out to be a poorly-cleaned Aristus Jun 2020 #15
Hugely different circumstances treestar Jun 2020 #21
This is not an intractable problem. Aristus Jun 2020 #23
Most of them aren't involved in these things treestar Jun 2020 #27
And we can undo it. Aristus Jun 2020 #28
Screw her. Jirel Jun 2020 #18
Talked to one last night treestar Jun 2020 #22
It's not as though the bad cops are flying under the radar. Aristus Jun 2020 #24
This is a very new, young one treestar Jun 2020 #25
If you don't commit a crime, then you have nothing to worry about. Aristus Jun 2020 #26
Not really the same treestar Jun 2020 #29
Once again, it comes down to how group-think can influence individual decision-making. Aristus Jun 2020 #30
Way too mentally unstable 👎 Raine Jun 2020 #31
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