How many members of the Oakland Police Department do you suppose

[SwampG8r]

are veterans?
how many do you suppose are once active duty Marines?
How do you think they are sleeping tonight?

[NYC_SKP]

1. I wonder the same about the help they brought in from departments in other cities...

Vacaville and Salinas and other cities in the region, and if it was volunteer duty to drive in for the "action".

Pathetic.

[EFerrari]

7. This situation is going to continue and it might not be a bad idea

for those of us who live in the Bay Area to call or email our mayors and tell them we don't want our police forces to be deployed like that, against our peaceful neighbors.

[NYC_SKP]

10. Great idea. nt

[cliffordu]

13. I wondered the same fucking thing.

defacto mercenaries.

Fucking cowards and cretins.

Shitsucking cretins.

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I think it's pretty common for former military to become police officers.

I wonder how well they're sleeping too...

[EFerrari]

3. The interim chief has stepped down.

I read tonight that he was hired out of Long Beach, which is bizarre because Long Beach PD has a terrible rep and almost as many problems as Oakland PD. :shrug:

[KT2000]

4. good point

military MP duty is helpful for getting a job as a police person - so I would imagine mamy are veterans.

[Fumesucker]

5. I bet they were high fiving each other for taking out a protester..

Kiss up, kick down, that's the bully mentality and these assholes were clearly bullies.

We continually hear of the "good cops" but for one to actually stand up and point out wrongdoing within the police community is so rare as to be utterly flabbergasting when it happens.

[SwampG8r]

6. i will agree with your assessment

they were no doubt hi fiving and hand slapping when it happened
now they know what they did and to who
do you think that knowledge plays on their minds?

[Fumesucker]

8. Olsen was/is a traitor in their minds..

He deserved it, that's the way I think they see it, he didn't do what he was told and they punished him for it.

In my estimation the cops are highly pissed off about this and blame everything on the protesters.

[DLnyc]

12. Yes, cops who don't like being lumped with the assholes

need to get those assholes busted.

[appleannie1]

9. I worked in a PD as a dispatcher for 15 years. About half had had military experience. I am happy

to say in that PD no one would have acted like what I saw in Oakland. I worked 6 months in another PD and quit because I saw assholes that had they not been in uniform would have been in jail for assault and I refused to be a part of that mentality. Not all police are bad people. Police like in Oakland and New York make good cops look bad.

[Fumesucker]

11. We know that all police are not bad people..

But the fact is that for one of the good ones to stand up and denounce wrongdoing within their department by bad ones is damn near unheard of..