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hedgehog

(36,286 posts) Sat Sep 13, 2014, 09:28 AM Sep 2014

Let's stop focusing on NFL players who beat their wives, girlfriends and kids: [View all]

it's time to focus on at cops who beat their wives, girl friends and kids. Too many get a pass from their fellow officers - it's the normal historic "protect the institution" reaction common to the police, military, colleges, churches, hospitals, etc. But the time for "protect the institution" by protecting the perpetrators is past. It's time to protect the institution by sending the perpetrators to prison.

It's the best way I know to filter the bad cops out of the force.

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Let's stop focusing on NFL players who beat their wives, girlfriends and kids: [View all] hedgehog Sep 2014 OP

Let's just discourage everyone beating on everyone... Oktober Sep 2014 #1

I think the problem is that certain groups have been escaping the consequences - hedgehog Sep 2014 #2

Uh huh... Oktober Sep 2014 #7

Yep. Assault is assault and it shouldn't be tolerated anywhere from Cleita Sep 2014 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author Oktober Sep 2014 #17

Eeyup. hifiguy Sep 2014 #19

Is it either or? How about focusing on everyone who beats up people? merrily Sep 2014 #3

why do we have to give up focussing on any of them? VanillaRhapsody Sep 2014 #4

Because Shankapotomus Sep 2014 #5

What is this "football" of which you speak? hedgehog Sep 2014 #9

The same football Shankapotomus Sep 2014 #10

I'm only marginally aware of football because it gets so much attention - hedgehog Sep 2014 #11

Me too Shankapotomus Sep 2014 #12

No offense taken! I was trying to explain myself without hedgehog Sep 2014 #13

I don't understand why there is so much focus on NFL players LittleBlue Sep 2014 #6

This is part of what I am reacting to - hedgehog Sep 2014 #8

I think instinctively there's a difference between mythology Sep 2014 #14

An open hand slap? Cleita Sep 2014 #18

No. JTFrog Sep 2014 #16

Sorry for misspeaking - it was early in the morning when I posted - what I hedgehog Sep 2014 #22

The NFL is based on brutal, dehumanizing violence in the first place. When will we deal with *that*? Romulox Sep 2014 #20

I tend to agree with what you are saying - especially with what we now know about concussion hedgehog Sep 2014 #21

It's always been a game of violence. As I get older, I see the fuller picture Romulox Sep 2014 #23

I have to do some serious reading on the subject - hedgehog Sep 2014 #24

I think when people who are heroes and role models to many engage in that behavior, Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #25

Cops, judges, politicians, doctors, lawyers, engineers malaise Sep 2014 #26