Much like the priesthood attracts pedophiles looking for opportunities, being a cop also attracts sadistic people who want to have power over others - in addition to those who really do have good intentions. When it comes to cops protecting each other, I think it's partly a matter of how they are so separate from the rest of society, which makes them "thick as thieves." Cops are kind of outcasts because many (most?) people feel uncomfortable around them, especially young people Outcasts tend to feel a need to stick together. I think there's also an attitude that outsiders can't know what it's like and cops deserve leniency for putting themselves on the line so much. I think that's the attitude. From what I understand, the main tool they have to screen against bad apples is to be relatively strict against people with a criminal record becoming cops in the first place.
If anybody actually thinks that is the 'rule rather than the exception' their ret@rdation has hit a point of critical mass.
Because of camera's, cell phones, and dash cams' recent popularity we are beginning to see more and more of this insane behavior. I am certain it has always been prevalent, and with the "blue wall of silence" cops have tended to back each other up on abuses. After all in court a cops word holds more validity than a person charged with a crime. As we now see from actual footage from these now popular devices, this problem is much more wide spread than once thought. A good example is the incident a couple of weeks ago where the cop shot a black man for pulling away from a traffic stop. The cop claimed the guy was dragging him so he had to shoot to save his own life. TWO separate cops verified the story. The cops camera showed something totally different. The guy was not dragging the cop, the cop shot for no apparent reason. In a welcome twist, the cop has been charged with murder.. What has happened to the 2 cops that lied remains to be seen.
It was the Black Panthers back in 1967 who abused their Second Amendment Rights that led the California State Legislature to punish all law abiding citizens in the state when they outlawed open carry of loaded weapons. Then during the late 1970's and 80's the Bloods and Crips in L.A. decided that black lives don't matter and a new phrase came into use, the "drive by" so the California State Legislature decided to punish all law abiding citizens outlawed scary looking rifles and called then assault weapons.
Black Panthers did not abuse their 2d Amendment rights in 1967. It was the FBI and right wingers who made that unsupported claim and the NRA stood up for the tyrannical government.
Before the Black Panthers marched upon the California State Capital with loaded shotguns, the Black Panthers were clueless what the Second Amendment was and what their rights were. It would be white "red diaper babies" of the SDS (Students for a Democrat Society) who informed the Black Panthers of their Constitutional rights and if they wanted to scare whitey, exercise (abuse) your rights and walk onto the floor of the State Legislature with loaded weapons and that what the Black Panthers tried to do. The California's State Legislature response was to outlaw open carry of loaded weapons in California. Fast track to the 1980's, the black criminal gangs known as the Crips and Bloods really got a hard-on over black on black crime. The drive bye shootings is created. Not having any marksmanship training, 70% of all gunshot victims from gang drive bye shootings were innocent victims. The weapon of choice by these gangs was the semi automatic rifle, usually a civilian version of the AK-47. The liberal Democrats response to the drive bye was "cultural-marxism" to change the definition of words to further a leftist political agenda. Don't blame the gang bangers but blame the gun. Now before the cultural-marxist changed the definition of what an assault rifle / assault weapon was, an assault rifle was any firearm that was chambered for a cartridge larger than a pistol round but smaller than a high power rifle cartridge and must be capable of full automatic fire. That was the military technical definition of an assault rifle. So the liberal Democrats used cultural-marxism and changed the definition of what an assault weapon was to further their radical leftist political agenda. The radical left decided to use cosmetic features of weapons, if the weapon was scary looking, then it was an assault weapon. The liberal Democrats in California would be the first state to outlaw scary and ugly looking weapons because of black on black crime. As we see today, the majority of law abiding citizens will have their Constitutional Rights infringed because of a small minority who abuse their rights or are just low life thugs that the progressives will protect and defend. Today it's no longer the majority rules but the minority rules.
You obviously do not know what you are talking about as the Black Panthers featured scholars like Angela Davis who knew the law far better than you can ever hope to know.
http://www.katv.com/story/30010381/claims-of-force-dog-officer-in-ex-tennis-pros-nyc-arrest Cops like these give good cops a bad name.
I suppose being black, a commie and majoring in French and philosophy does make one a scholar on the law in the leftist world of making (*)(*)(*)(*) up. http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1303 Barack Obama claims that he's a constitutional law scholar even though nobody has shown any evidence that Obama ever attended any classes on constitutional law. (Obama still hasn't released his college transcripts for some reason) The cultural-marxist revisionist said that Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School when the truth is that Obama taught was "Current Issues in Racism and the Law" not constitutional law. http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511 FYI: Angela Davis had no connections yet with the Black Panthers in 1967, I think she was still living in Germany and being indoctrinated into Marxism back then. Does it seem I know what I'm talking about ???
I know I'm smarter than Obama. I actually made the "Deans List" while in college, Obama never did. I have a GPA and earned a BS in engineering not a BA. Obama skated through college. Didn't even want to earn a BS but went for the easy BA. He couldn't even make it in the private sector. The Obama's from the "hood" on the South Side of Chicago hit the lotto big time in 2008 and well the first thing you know ol Barack fooled the uniformed low information voters and Valerie Jarrett said "Berry move away from there" said "Washington DC is the place you ought to be" So they loaded up the U-Haul truck and moved to Washington DC, that is, big government, free stuff and a Secret Service motorcade and a big Boeing 747. As for Angela Davis, she has been dependent on the tax payers going back to the late 1960's for a livelihood. So stupid she is, she purchase a shotgun, cuts of the barrel and gives the shotgun to one of her " Marxist comrades" who murders a judge with it. Comrade Davis didn't think the shotgun couldn't be traced back to her ? To stupid to file off the shotgun's serial numbers I suppose.
You don't think you're smarter than Obama ??? Ok, if you say so. The worst President in America's history.
don't know where you went, but at many universities, the only difference between a BA and a BS is whether you took 2 semesters worth of language or two semesters worth of intro level science classes.
California, UCLB. But it's just not where someone went to college but when. College degrees have been dumbed down over the decades. You mention two semester of a foreign language being required. I've heard from some even on the PF that this is no longer a requirement at many universities When I went to college, six units of history was also required no matter if you were going for a BA or BS. Today the only history that is taught is usually revisionist history. I started my college education in 1968 attending El Camino Coillege, back then it was referred to as a Jr. College, today they are called community colleges. Back during the day, El Camino JC was rated academically as the top JC in the country. Before it was a JC it was known as the veterans college. You attended for two years and earned a AA and then transferred to one of the state universities. Back then in California all JC's in California were free, the only thing you had to pay for were for the books. I never finished my first semester at El Camino, I got my orders from the Marine Corps in December of 1968. If I had a liberal instructor or professor, I was given an incomplete in the class, if he wasn't a liberal or radical I was given a passing grade. I got back into the college thing in 1971 and with the GI bill I entered UCLB. I do remember back then six units in history and six units in a foreign language was required no matter if you were going for a BA or BS. These courses were part of the requirement of meeting the units in your elective courses. A lot of these elective courses were called basket weaving courses. They were easy courses when it was easy to earn an "A" grade that helped to keep your GPA up. Back in the 70's oned of the most popular electives to take was psychology, an easy course and there was no one in the class room who was planing on being a shrink in the private sector. It was just three easy units to earn. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1171&context=senateresolutions
