We should not be gearing our education system toward developing ignorant rubes, IMO. That's what we are currently doing, and what we have been doing since Reagan began cutting education budgets nation wide in his push for trickle down economics. Horrible policy. Absolutely terrible. And that's why we're being passed by countries with far better education policy, and a big contributor towards most of our other problems. We should be developing our children into the most capable people possible by default. That should be our number one long term policy objective.
Cop just trying to do his job required by him got him shot and im critical condition. https://www.kptv.com/2023/07/26/deputy-shot-tualatin-people-asked-avoid-active-scene/ was this cop a bastard? Evil? Cops are humans with families too. Not all cops are good. Not all cops are bad either. why we are being pushed to care more about those who make poor decisions for themselves than those putting their lives at risk for the public, is mind boggling to me.
The vast number of bad cops are making a bad name for the good ones like the one above who are just trying to do their job and protect their community. It really comes down to a systematic issue. A system that allows corruption and dysfunction among its ranks must be challenged. But, yeah not all cops are bad. I hope this officer pulls through.
Because the media eats it up because good cop news is not news to them. ...and it fits the narrative/agenda for some people, and those people, in turn, regurgitate that sort of mantra in a way that is blindly received and accepted by people who can't think for themselves.
Its crazy to me that so many here in this forum accept a label for all cops but yet in other threads try to avoid such generalizations and what not. The double standard regarding this topic vs others is society showing how much of followers/sheep we are. the system has failed. No doubt. So has our federal educTion system. Does that mean all teachers could care less aBout their kids in their classes? Of course not. how people cant use this same common sense logic on the police force is crazy to me. There are many cops out there who care nothing and do not support a biased/racist system and just want to perform quality public service. But yet many toss them in the same evil camp as the rest. I just dont get it.
^^^What he said. "Sheep" is sadly, but exactly, what a lot of people have become. ("Any way the wind blows...")
lol if you are a bad cop you are a bastard. If you are a cop that doesn’t try to stop bad cops you are siding with the bad cops through inaction. You are a bastard. If you are a good cop who tries to stop bad cops, you are fired. You are no longer a cop. All cops are bastards, because the cops don’t want cops in their ranks working against other cops. Officer Friendly might seem nice but there’s a 24% chance he beats his wife and kids. https://kutv.com/news/local/40-of-police-officer-families-experience-domestic-violence-study-says (note I’m going with the much less salacious number here! And the national average is 10%) If 24% of any employee base at any company in the world beat their families, and the company’s stores indicated that they had no intention of firing those people, would you trust that company? Would you want alternatives? Would you want reform? Why defend these bastards? Why?
Even if you don’t care about the racial breakdown, the number of murders by police is shocking. I don’t know how to tell you this but law enforcement should not be killing anyone, guilty or innocent. These are extra-judicial killings. These are murders. No murder is justified. Cops are Bastards. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_by_law_enforcement._Rates_and_counts_by_country The goal is zero. This is simple. Policing in the United States is a failure on all levels. It needs to be abolished and replaced. It cannot be reformed.
The country is armed to the teeth and take fistfuls of pharmaceuticals to get through 60 hour work weeks. Zero is an impossible goal.
This sort of fatalistic thinking makes me sad. Not as sad as the families of the thousands murdered by cops in that graph above, probably. But sad all the same.
1. Wow...generalize much?..and what about the number of people who were killed by other people who were NOT cops? 2. Here's the number of people cops DIDN'T kill between 2017 and 2023...... 300,000,000
only because you seem to fail to realize what cops are up against on a daily basis. Please read the above quoted post and article. If that too doesn't make you sad, the. That's very concerning. One sided compassion for an issue affecting both sides is concerning, and to me, heartless. The generalization is no better than saying all homosexuals are handsy perverts. There are good cops out there trying to fight the system they work for. I know one first hand who lives in hillsboro. So you will never get me to agree all cops are bad. Your blanket accusations do nothing to solve the problem and s tually only feed the fire. Until we as a ao iety can break down issues like this into detailed portions to deal with it wont be solved. Running around yelling all cops are bad just continues the divide. Its loke saying all blacks are criminals or all asians are poor drivers. There is a history and track record that could somewhat justify these statements. Doesnt mean its true. not all cops are bad. The sooner people realize this the sooner we can bridge the divide, fix the system and get rid of the many bad cops. So are all black cops bastards too? We must stop generalizing and labelling all as one l, if we are to fix anything my friend. It really does come down to acknowledging the details and separation of a bad cop, a bad system and a good cop trying to do good within a bad system.
What is this? Is this a threat? Like “just be glad they didn’t kill more!” Is this a real sentence you’re saying? the United States is 29th in the world for highest murder rate by police. This is normalized for population differences. Do you know how many countries have a lower rate? Because I can tell you know it’s more than 29. Do you know how many had less than 10 total murdered?
Its as if some completely forget the LA bank robbers in body armor. Or the countless cops killed on duty or the many other things cops have to deal with. Its mentioned often on here how many guns are out there. If i was a cop, no matter the training id be on edge too. How many cops shot for a simple traffic stop as they walk up to the window? Can only happen so many times before a cop will hope for the best but expect the worst. Its survival instincts. But some expect cops to kick that instinct to the curb and.m continually put their lives aT risk without regard to their own safety. not all cops are bad. Period.
And the reasonability game begins again. I’m worked up so I must be less trustworthy than more level heads. I don’t have a solution in all my posts so my observations hold no merit. We can’t fix anything by being angry. Gotta work within the system. Willfully blind obedience. Hope they use flavored polish on those boots.
