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| Sea Dog | Mar 25 2014, 10:06 PM Post #1 |
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Is this news to anyone? Article. http://www.alternet.org/more-americans-killed-police-terrorists-crime-down-why-police-aggression |
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| Neutral | Mar 25 2014, 10:19 PM Post #2 |
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Maybe Sea is jealous they aren't killing canooks? |
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| Pat | Mar 25 2014, 10:23 PM Post #3 |
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Just yesterday in the news was an article about the recent slaying of a homeless guy whose horrendous crime was illegally camping in the desert hills outside Albuquerque, NM. The police chief was quick to defend the the military assault troop dressed policemen who gunned down this guy while his back was turned. He had spent three hours arguing with the police and I guess they got tired of arguing and rather than use non lethal force decided to kill him in a hail of bullets. Their mistake was the helmet camera caught the murder on tape. And true to form, the police rubber stamped this as a justifiable shooting. The Albuquerque police are under investigation by the justice department over a string of killings like this one, over 50 in this past year alone. I think the problem lies in the brain washing of our military and the 1984 Orwellian government we have now throughout the land. The police hire these muscle bound former special forces guys who have spent time in urban patrol operations in Bosnia or Iraq among other hot spots. Maybe it's a natural reflex in these programmed guys to shoot at the drop of a hat and then cover up afterwards. I've never seen anything like it, we live in a virtual police state and you can get shot dead by armed thugs under the shield of a police badge for nothing more than arguing with them over camping in the wrong place. |
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| Berton | Mar 26 2014, 02:02 AM Post #4 |
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How many were justified? The slanted article seems to have left that information out. |
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| Pat | Mar 26 2014, 04:29 AM Post #5 |
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I guess enough of them that the justice department is now involved. i doubt they would intervene if the local oversight system was functioning. I believe the cops in this case should be tried for murder. |
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| Banandangees | Mar 26 2014, 06:55 PM Post #6 |
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I think that, over all, the police in the US generally do a great job. If only Chicago could do what Rudy Giuliani's New York police did for NYC. Even this article, the title of which makes the point Sea wishes to make, while the stats in the article could be read another way, is a misleading piece of BS from "AlterNet," a liberal progressive news source founded in 1998, to do what liberal progressive activist news orgs. do. Sea relishes is such crap in his continual blather about just how bad much of the US is..... yet he can't wait to spend his winters here, as if Canada is the utopian place to be.... in the summer. Do we need to go over the reported governmental corruption that exists in Canada and idiot mayors like the one "governing" the NYC of Canada, or the national dependence on carbon based fuel, with the dirtiest oil source on the planet which has destroyed a large part of the environment of an entire province while continually pointing fingers at everybody else. He lives (in the summer) in Port Dover, looking south all the time, while he apparently doesn't see what's going on behind his back. Turn around Sea, turn around. |
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| tomdrobin | Mar 26 2014, 10:11 PM Post #7 |
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The article states that police militarization and spending is increasing while crime is going down. But, makes no effort to connect the dots. Perhaps the aggressive behavior is responsible for the drop in crime. |
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| Berton | Mar 26 2014, 10:18 PM Post #8 |
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National gun ownership is also going up while violent crime is going down. |
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