Originally Posted By: Astro14
Originally Posted By: Cristobal
We have a horrible problem with police violence in this country. It is beyond sick.
In many ways, the cops are nothing but a gang.
On what do you base your opinion? Media appeal to emotion? Dishdude's thread title selection? Are you incapable of critical thinking? Of thinking for yourself? Or do you just blindly allow yourself to be stirred up by their sensational presentation, and fall into their manipulation and agenda?
Roughly a million police officers serve in this country. We've seen a few videos over the past year. What, a case every month? So, 0.0001% of cops are bad?
And you're now going to make specious stereotyping of the other 99.9999% based on your emotional reaction to a tiny number of cases...
I'm not defending this police officer. But I completely reject your generalization.
Let's apply your logic to other groups of people. And make sweeping, false, generalizations about them based on their behavior, and say, race, or gender, or religion. I need only post a few news articles about the "people" in that "group" to convince you of that group's morality and character. Let's then call that group "thugs", or a "gang"
What then, would that make you?
This is a really good post on the part of Astro14 and I agree with it 100%.
There are certain people in the news media and elsewhere who are trying to stir things up in this country and go looking for every example of bad police conduct they can find. Now, before anybody jumps on me I don't support what the cop did in this situation.
But what I will say is that it is amazing how FEW incidents of police misconduct can be found. Apparently the vast majority of police are just doing their jobs and doing their jobs correctly.
It is illogical and just plain wrong to try to imply that all police officers are like this one cop. That would be like somebody being mistreated by an auto mechanic somewhere and being ripped off on auto repairs and going around saying that ALL auto mechanics are bad!
Some guys here have a problem with logical reasoning. They need to learn how to think for themselves and not have some troublemaker somewhere do their thinking for them.
If the vast majority of police were corrupt and brutal WE WOULD DEFINITELY KNOW ABOUT IT! We would not need to have Al Sharpton tell us.