Originally Posted by
MichMetal
I think cops have far too much power, which at least a decent number of them abuse. They also get payed pretty good, every single episode i've seen on the tv show cops(and i've seen a lot) they start off talking about how much they love their job etc..."Police officers in the United States earn an average annual salary of $51410" that's a nice chunk of change. Over $4k a month...so I don't feel bad for them at all.
What I don't understand is the concept that a guy who just got out of highschool, can take police training a few weeks/months, given a badge and a gun and from then on he has the power to ruin peoples day and lives, and they have to follow all his barking and even if he does something wrong there's little chance you'll be reimbursed, unless you have proof(which is why so many cops are against you filming them, think about *that* if they had nothing to hide as public servants they wouldn't be arresting people for it)
There are 32,700,000 results on google for "police brutality" and most don't realize this but a cop can arrest you, and hold you in jail for 48 hours without even charging you with anything...supreme court also ruled recently that cops can strip search anyone they arrest in jails, regardless if its for a parking ticket or whatever else...they have WAY too much power and they're the primary reason marijuana isn't legalized. They fight it tooth and jail every time a bill regarding it comes up, because if they can't bust those dangerous college kids consuming marijuana to meet their monthly quota(And you better believe cops have quotas) then what? It's job security for them, and there have been many police precincts, the entire things, shut down for corruption.............
I can tell you ridiculous story after story of cops killing etc.. that I read and the DA completely ignoring it. In fact one that comes to mind is a cop shows up to her ex wifes house, while off duty, shoots her boyfriend something like 24 times(and idk about you but i never heard of a 24 round clip so he clearly had to reload), claims self defense, and the DA found the cop innocent...so this same guy goes transfers beats the snot out of some kid for not tucking in his shirt(it was filmed on camera), and then eventually he ended up raping some woman...when he finally went to trial for the latter the video of the kid thing surfaced. So you see, these kind of stories are common, DA don't seem to do anything when it comes to police, they get a free pass way too much.
The only way to fix this is federally and state wise make it written clearly and without confusion that people ARE allowed to film cops in public, since apparently constitution isn't good enough for them to stop arresting people over it. I also think cops should have camera and mics on them at all times to monitor what they're doing, for the peoples safety first and foremost and theres after. Imagine if no one filmed the Rodney king beatings...
Also keep this in mind, a cop and retired cop can carry a concealed weapon just about anywhere in the US regardless of state regulations. I can find the reference for anything i've claimed if someone needs it.
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