othershoe1030 wrote: Wordslinger wrote:Let's face it, the cops have a choice: They can continue to protect and serve the corporations who now own our government, and accept becoming targets for assassination, or they can do everything they can do to make amends to the people they were sworn to protect and serve.
The revolution is already underway. It started when the two cops were gunned down in Brooklyn.
The killer of the two cops was an armed crazy. But then again, the guy who choked Eric Garner to death was an equally armed crazy.
I think it's very likely the cops will now become more aggressive, because they now have genuine reason to be afraid.
Anyone want to predict where all this shit is headed?
As many are pointing out, the problems between police and the public or more specifically the people of color part of the public (mostly) is a many layered, complicated and chronic condition.
Which complicated and chronic condition would that be?
The resisting arrest or the getting hurt or even killed while doing so? Is that what we're talking about here?
othershoe1030 wrote:To treat the symptoms of this unraveling of civilization hundreds if not thousands of hours of training must take place.
They said that about teachers and schools also and the quality of teaching continues to worsen in our public schools.
othershoe1030 wrote:The police have seemingly lost sight of their serve and protect calling.
I doubt that. What part of resisting arrest in these situations don't you understand?
othershoe1030 wrote:I was appalled by the comments of the NYC police official who conflated peaceful demonstrations calling for civil police behavior with calls for violence against the police. This is exactly the sort of statement that so wrongly misdirects peoples' attention from the real problem the demonstrators were protesting, namely police misbehavior. Now there is a rift between the police of NYC and the mayor who should all be on the side of law and order and respect for the public. This is not an easy job the police have, trying every minute to decide who the bad guys are and who they are supposed to be protecting but the police official's comments were totally off IMO and added fuel to a tense situation.
So now you're saying that it's a leadership problem?
othershoe1030 wrote:People need to remember that when you call 911 with an emergency it is the police who are going to respond. We need them. We also need them to behave. We should be able to protest their bad behavior without people wrongly looking at those protests as calls for violence against them. Really, some thought must be applied to this situation don't you think? Have we just turned into some kind of mob? I hope not.
Were there are were there not calls from the 'protestors' for dead cops?
othershoe1030 wrote:As for the serving of corporate interests go this police/citizen dust up could be seen as just another hot button issue (albeit a real condition)played up by the media to distract us from other more real issues that the corporations don't want the government to deal with, things like run-away military spending, crumbling infrastructure, shrinking middle class, you know, the usual important things they don't want us to pay attention to?
Which you play into so long as you wish to make an issue of calling it police brutality when a person is obviously resisting arrest.
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