To Protect and to Serve II

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Rickyvol77 said:
- I agree with your first part, and i wouldn't take that power lightly at all. Out of the hundred of THOUSANDS of law enforcement officers out there, i am sure there are some that do...There are some that are crazy, or corrupt or criminals or just bad people. But guess what? 1. That's a very very small number of all law enforcement. 2. They usually get weeded out early 3. Officers are just people like any other profession, they aren't perfect and they make mistakes. The problem i have is most instances of "bad police shootings" or "police overreach and brutality" are not in reality. It's a misconception from the anti-authority types of what law or police procedures actually are.

- on the 2nd part, this is not really true either. There are "enhancement" laws in some states that bump up an assault on L.E. Officers as an Aggravated Assault, but this is also true of many groups of people (doctors, RNs, EMTs, Pilots, Firefighters, Military, politicians, judges, etc.)
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I for one was happy to find out that if I'm Assaulted by a pt. I can pursue it. Some people are just Aholes.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
that's why staying away from social media in the professional realm is a good idea. He made it up for attention or who knows why with his coworkers, it picked up steam and someone posted on Facebook or somewhere to "get" that place, and then the local news made it a big deal, because the media mines facebook and twitter for nearly 75% of their "stories" because they are lazy, by then the dumb*ss couldnt go back on his lie...pretty cut and dry
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The someone who posted it was the Chief of Police by my reading of the article. I’m no expert on the org structure of a police department but would think, of all of them, the Chief would be the one not going to social media to address the “issue.”

Wags finger - Don’t negatively generalize the police. Negatively generalizes the media. Lulz.
 
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95 Vol Alum said:
The someone who posted it was the Chief of Police by my reading of the article. I’m no expert on the org structure of a police department but would think, of all of them, the Chief would be the one not going to social media to address the “issue.”

Wags finger - Don’t negatively generalize the police. Negatively generalizes the media. Lulz.
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im generalzing local media because it's true....go to WLVT, WATE or WBIR's Facebook stories page. Other than weather or local crime and sports stories, what dominates their pages?

FB stories about a sick child in Philadelphia who's go FundMe page is up, or a poll about is the dress white or blue....radio media is the same way, they pull "national" stories off Facebook posts and post it themselves as "news" so they can get FB likes and tweets about it...I'm 100% correct with this...it has been the replacement of the old "slice of life" feel-good news stories on TV which are meaningless drivel
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
is this a joke??
have you missed all the social media fake stories from different people claiming someone wrote something bad on a coffee or receipt or napkin?

black waitress, old man, gay couple, pregnant waitress, deaf person, person with service animal, etc.

That's why i never believe any social media story no matter who says it without evidence
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Relax and maybe read it again? The point is that specifically only protected classes get that kind of treatment. We are asking ourselves why are cops a protected class? The idea of protecting classes, like it or not, is to safeguard those that can't protect themselves and cops have a lot more power than average Joes.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Relax and maybe read it again? The point is that specifically only protected classes get that kind of treatment. We are asking ourselves why are cops a protected class? The idea of protecting classes, like it or not, is to safeguard those that can't protect themselves and cops have a lot more power than average Joes.
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Allow me relay my cops are a protected class story. One fine day about 20 years ago I was heading home after work and got passed by probably 20 police cars absolutely screaming down a 2 lane road. I couldn't imagine what they were headed to but I assumed it was a major crime scene. Once I got home and turned on the TV I see where the local news folks are covering a manhunt for a person that allegedly stabbed a police officer. They had over 100 police cars and 2 helicopters looking for the suspect that had stabbed the officer in the leg. Once the dust settled it turned out that the "hero" stabbed himself in the leg with his pocket knife and was just looking for glory. Also when my wife was headed home a car wrecked in front of her and every cop blew by like nothing while a woman had to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
Every time I hear the word hero and cop I shake my head.
 
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VolStrom said:
Allow me relay my cops are a protected class story. One fine day about 20 years ago I was heading home after work and got passed by probably 20 police cars absolutely screaming down a 2 lane road. I couldn't imagine what they were headed to but I assumed it was a major crime scene. Once I got home and turned on the TV I see where the local news folks are covering a manhunt for a person that allegedly stabbed a police officer. They had over 100 police cars and 2 helicopters looking for the suspect that had stabbed the officer in the leg. Once the dust settled it turned out that the "hero" stabbed himself in the leg with his pocket knife and was just looking for glory. Also when my wife was headed home a car wrecked in front of her and every cop blew by like nothing while a woman had to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
Every time I hear the word hero and cop I shake my head.
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I think the officer who stabbed himself looking for glory is an idiot but that doesn’t mean the police’s search for his alleged attacker isn’t justified.
and on your second story, what do you mean? “Every cop” blew by who, the traffic accident scene? How do you know what the police were doing and how many is “every cop”?
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
When i worked for the city, i (and other city workers) were paid out of the revenue part of the Knoxville City Government Budget. Not all of that is tax revenue generated, in fact actual city taxes go to the project side, while regular government revenue and incentives make up the majority of the rest of the budget. Now you could argue my old pension was funded by taxpayer money more than my salary was, but it's all in detail within the City budget
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How does govt make revenue?
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Bail Reform: Mayor De Blasio Defends Giving Freed Prison Inmates Gifts For Appearing In Court As 'A Smart Policy'

This is what liberal criminal reform looks like. Using taxpayer money to give gift cards and MLB tickets to criminals to beg them to show up for court...lol
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I have a better idea. Lets not ask any of the non-violent drug offenders to go to court at all. That way, our courts and prisons are only dealing with real criminals like robbers, killers and fraudsters.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
I have a better idea. Lets not ask any of the non-violent drug offenders to go to court at all. That way, our courts and prisons are only dealing with real criminals like robbers, killers and fraudsters.
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You do realize your drug addicts make up a large percentage of killers and robbers and thieves rights?
 
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