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Originally Posted by chuck
The police in the country where you people live...
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My, that sounds elitist. You could never pay me enough to do their jobs. I haven't always been pleased with my interractions with police but I respect that they are often thrust into difficult situations where they must make split-second decisions and there is a media culture right there to second-guess their every decision.
Yes, there are some dirty cops out there who mistreat people for no reason but any profession (say, NFL quarterback) has a few people with way too high an opinion of themselves.
I like what one of my co-workers (who is an ardent cop-hater) offers as a solution. For every monetary judgement in a case where deadly force was used, take the settlement money out of the police union's pension, rather than the city/state's coffers. Then, he opines, the good cops will be less inclined to protect the bad ones and the force will weed out the bad ones on their own.
Meanwhile, enjoy the police in La Shitholia. I'm sure they are that nation's finest.