Well, to try and balance out all the ugly bad cop stories, here is a picture of a Seattle deputy sharing his lunch with a homeless guy.



http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/c7/b5...187bc78697.jpg

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/washingt...-homeless-man/

Yeah...I know. Whudda weirdo.

I do not understand how it can be acceptable for a police department to investigate themselves for misconduct.

Does not the term conflict of interest ever come up? Or public perception?

They come up in my line of work and I am sure not alone in this.

One NYC's finest got snookered for a pair of boots by what appeared to be a homeless guy. He wasn't.:haha:

Nice one :cool:

Fixed that for you.:88)

I think there is a sea change coming in what it means to be a police officer in this country. People videotaping police activities are not going to stop. If anything such scenes will become more and more prevalent until it forces the police to act more responsibly.

Slapping a body camera on each and every one of them will go a long way toward curbing their shenanigans.:up:

Officers breaking laws to enforce minor offenses should be immediately fired, prosecuted and never allowed to wear a badge again.

The way things have been going, I guess that's why they call a badge a shield.

I have but one comment to make or let me put this thought in a question.

Why is it that black people by and large, no matter the country, turn to violence, looting, burning etc to either make a point, get attention, or to protest?

"The National Guard has been deployed to Baltimore following widespread rioting and looting in the city. The violence began after a 25-year-old African American died of injuries sustained while in police custody. Apparently the best way to protest police brutality, logically speaking, is to burn down the city and loot every single supermarket. Reuters

It has nothing to do with them being black.
Yet it has to do with human nature.

My guess is that a lot of black people start to take the news reports a tad too personal and people love taking things personal so they can vent about it, right?
It would be the same with white or purple people, yet the news don't report about a white guy getting shot since it just wouldn't provoke interest from the news agencies target audience...

I would do some research on crime statistics to compare the whole black/white thing. Do more black people get shot? If so in what areas and why?
But I honestly don't care.
It is depressing and stupid enough already what is going on at the moment.

Only a guess.

I does have something to do with that they're black. But it's not that their nature is different from the whites, it's that the blacks are a lot poorer and crime is linked to economic status.

And someone bring me a riot/looting picture that has NOT been passed trough the media and we'll play a game of ''count the whites''

Absolutely.
Though, there are poor white people as well.
And poor Hispanics, Asians, ...
A lot of them, actually.

:D

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/576469/ima...T-large570.jpg
Student riot in Montreal (well, "riot" :03:)

QET (or is it QFT)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...gal/yahoo1.jpg


http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/data...FEzBQoUKID/9k=

My point is that both of them (blacks and whites and anyone else) should be thrown in jail for looting and rioting. And journalists that focus on rase and not the issue shoudl also be thrown in a granite quarry to learn some work ethics.

I could not agree more with you and that picture is spot on. :salute:

Fostered by the media...
 

... and the police.:nope:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bal...KXpR?ocid=iehp



Time to go color blind?