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MrScorpio

(73,630 posts)
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 02:30 PM Aug 2014

The Ferguson PD is a textbook example of how NOT to run a police department

It's easy to see why they've so incompetently handled everything since they've been in the spotlight. And to think, some people out there thought that the outrage shown by the community over the past week either came out of the blue, or was encouraged by outside agitators.

That's complete bullshit, the people under occupation by this gang of thugs with badges knew the deal from the get go. That sort of seething rage doesn't just come out of nowhere. It builds and festers until it boils over.

It's called repression.

NOW, we're supposed to take their flimsy implication that Mike Brown was shot down in the street like a rabid dog because he was some hulking robber?

Riiight.

Fuck this shit.

The Ferguson PD needs to have its accreditation REMOVED, the ENTIRE force FIRED and the police force reconstructed with new, competently trained officers using the community policing model. These officers must live in the community and interact with its citizens as part of the community and not as some occupying force. Until this is accomplished, the State and County departments should take over the community's law enforcement needs until a new improved Ferguson PD is up and running.

As long as that department is run by the same gaggle of violent, incompetent fools in uniform, from the top on down, it'll only be a matter of time before the next questionable and provocative act that will start another outcry.

Justice is required, it's an imperative... If the Ferguson PD only cares about "just us," more unarmed people will surely die.

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The Ferguson PD is a textbook example of how NOT to run a police department (Original Post) MrScorpio Aug 2014 OP
I sure can't disagree with that. MineralMan Aug 2014 #1
Yeah I don't see how they can actually police right now underpants Aug 2014 #2
It is so sad but completely true. onecaliberal Aug 2014 #3
Agreed Gothmog Aug 2014 #4
The cop who murdered Mike Brown doesn't live in Ferguson. MohRokTah Aug 2014 #5
They have NO.. NONE credibility in that area now. They are seen along the same lines as gangbangers uponit7771 Aug 2014 #6
Bravo! If not every member of the department, certainly the leadership cadre has VanGoghRocks Aug 2014 #7

MineralMan

(146,284 posts)
1. I sure can't disagree with that.
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 02:39 PM
Aug 2014

The department should also reflect the demographics of the community. I can't see how effective police work could be done otherwise.

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
5. The cop who murdered Mike Brown doesn't live in Ferguson.
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 04:51 PM
Aug 2014

He lives (or at least lived up until a few days ago) in Crestwood, MO 18 miles away.

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
6. They have NO.. NONE credibility in that area now. They are seen along the same lines as gangbangers
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 05:08 PM
Aug 2014

... and the like; people who are bad news

 

VanGoghRocks

(621 posts)
7. Bravo! If not every member of the department, certainly the leadership cadre has
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 05:30 PM
Aug 2014

to go forthwith. (My wife calls them "thugs with badges and guns".)

I do have some questions that have been percolating, one of which is how a community that is by most accounts at least 75% minority winds up with a power structure and constabulary that are overwhelmingly white. I have not seen much sociological or political analysis of Ferguson, so any perspective you might have on this would be most definitely appreciated.

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