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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 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.
MineralMan
(146,284 posts)The department should also reflect the demographics of the community. I can't see how effective police work could be done otherwise.
underpants
(182,736 posts)Wow this is bad AND self inflicted
onecaliberal
(32,814 posts)Gothmog
(145,086 posts)This police department is being run by idiots
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)He lives (or at least lived up until a few days ago) in Crestwood, MO 18 miles away.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)... and the like; people who are bad news
VanGoghRocks
(621 posts)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.