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Random: Bravo Law Enforcement! You Suck!
Posted September 19, 2007 9:49 AM
You guys have all had to deal with them at least once and if not, you're just lucky and you will soon enough. Police. The necessary force for maintaining order and peace, they protect us from the bad people that threaten the livelihood of innocent citizens. They have been an essential piece of a well functioning society for as long as society has existed, driven by the fact that some people do not want to submit to the greater authority. This disobedience can range all over the map from murders to drugs to simply trying to be heard as a human being. We should notice that that is where the discrepancy lies.
Police officers are here to serve and protect, a slogan that encompasses every citizen whether they are the bystanders or the criminals themselves, and criminal is a term used loosely. We're not here to deny that there are dangerous people that require force to be dealt with, but law enforcement is abusing their power and expanding the term criminal to make anyone in violation of the law, however minor, not just a criminal, but a dangerous criminal. That differentiation, or complete lack thereof, is giving hard-ons to cops everywhere now that they have the funding ($3.7 billion from the federal government and whatever else offered by the state) to afford the plethora of less-than-lethal technology, making it that much easier and "less lethal" for complete obedience. It was becoming and now is a problem that needs to be dealt with. Go ahead guys, take a look for yourself.
And if that wasn't enough..
And we'll end on a nice taser-to-victim metaphor courtesy of our government's military:
So guys, if you haven't yet been convinced of the problem, please, spend at least 10 minutes and do a little research. At the very least you'll be making a difference in yourself.
Tags: police, brutality, criminals, injustice, taser,
