8 Apr 2022 12:06 pm
I appreciate your contributions to the thread, Slideman. Though I think you're wasting your time responding to those who are allergic to information, willfully ignorant, and who choose to dwell in alternate realities. They are a lost cause.slideman » 08 Apr 2022, 11:38 am » wrote: ↑ You folks think I'm anti-police but the truth is I am just the opposite.
I think the police should be a respected profession like a doctor or a lawyer or an accountant. They should be pillars of the community respected for always telling the truth. I think they should be paid more. I think the educational requirements should be more. I think they should spend more time in training as cadets.
I support the police.
I too have always had respect for cops, and I'd like to think that there are those who want to protect and serve ALL of the community (not just some).
I also believe part of the well documented and substantiated LYING (as per your posts) is not only by those trying to cover their *** when they know they've done something they shouldn't have, but also because of that institutionalized "blue wall of silence" that USUALLY (with some exceptions) fall over instances of misconduct. I know of instances in which cops felt coerced to clam up about misdeeds and such.
As I wrote, I had some articles at the start of the thread to share because, as it so happens I've LONG been a writer of political commentary, and as such, one tends to save a story... or two (ahem). But I'll be DAMNED if, as if by magic, as soon as I created the thread, more RECENT stories suddenly popped up in the headlines... as if they came looking for ME.
The latest:
Amir Locke's Mother Speaks Out After Son's Killer Evades Charges
Maybe Twitter Should Allow Hate Speech. Then We'd See What Cops Really Think About Us. - Above the Law
Granted immunity, former Baltimore police sergeant admits to decades worth of crimes
Illinois Police Officer Resigns After White Supremacist Posts Surface Online
'This isn’t your money': Las Vegas cop indicted in string of audacious casino stick-up robberies --- prosecutors say he allegedly used his own police-service weapon - MarketWatch
Louisiana prosecutor pursues own case in Ronald Greene death | The Independent