To Protect and to Serve II

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Rasputin_Vol said:
What you are saying makes total sense... had this entire drama not played itself out in social media. Had the officer (or any other employee) done anything not involving social media and possible deformation/libel charges, you would be correct.
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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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Rickyvol77 said:
ok, again, that was one moron from small redneck county...i've never seen an officer do any of those things in 20 plus years in the profession...i hope he's thrown in jail for all of it
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Hamilton is the fourth largest county in the state. And I don't see what the size of the county has to do with being a good cop.
 
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DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
Then who pays the salary?
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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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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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You do understand government has no money of it’s own, right? It’s all tax (stolen) money.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
you do realize that ALL of government budget just doesn't come straight from taxes right?
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Lawd have mercy! In order for the government to give something, they must first take it from someone else. Dress it up however you want, taxation has always been and will always be theft.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
you do realize that ALL of government budget just doesn't come straight from taxes right?
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I know in my county the gubment went into manufacturing widgets and started a successful eBay marketing business so as to not require all of their money to come from taxes.
 
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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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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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