Reply #52: AGREED to no END on this one! [View All]

[HughBeaumont]

"I hate then when a cop gets shot, that they are more important than civilians and whoever it that shot them gets more jail time than if he shot a civilian."

Oh yes. I fucking hate this. Child molesters, child murderers and child rapists get pittances in comparison (just ask my wife; as a social worker, she sees the molestation/repeat offender part in her caseloads all the time) and are allowed out to repeat their offense. You shoot a police officer, even accidentally, you're getting put to sleep. We value a police officer's life over a CHILD'S? Is that the message here?

Here's what I want to know. Why is no effort being made to cleanse departments of rogue police that use their badge as a means of getting back at those who wronged them in a past life? How much police brutality/harassment is covered up in the Cleveland, Lorain and Youngstown areas alone? Police here (most of whom are WAY the hell out of shape, I might add) have harassed and physically abused protestors (witness the Cleveland Heights case) and verbally harass citizens often, even when they're going out of their way to obey traffic laws in fear that a fat cop on a cycle is going to pull them over. Yes, in case you were wondering, I'm talking about me.

"You DO realize you have to know how to drive before you get behind the wheel? You DO know that, don't you?"

Okay, why was that warranted? I mean, what am I going to say to that? "Fuck you fatass, why don't you go to a fucking gym or something?" I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you right now if I did. Well, I probably would, but I'd be on probation or something. I can even relate the incident in DC last September (during the anti-Iraq War March) where, for walking in the wrong direction, one of the police stepped in my way and had his club drawn. Didn't say a WORD to him, just for walking in the wrong direction. That's just how police are anymore.