If you give a cop a gun, stupid things will happen- Page 2

[SNAFU]

Posted: 9/26/14 at 7:04pm

"Also, this isn't a huge story to me since white cops shoot people of color daily. For us non white people, it's just another day. Yeah, yeah, I know it "shouldn't be like that!!!". Welcome to real life."

That is really f*cking sad.

[Everlast85]

Posted: 9/26/14 at 7:35pm

The title of this thread is very ignorant, but what's more ignorant is people thinking this is a new problem, or something that has happened just recently. It isn't. This happens all the time, and people have finally started to take notice? Come on.

It's not "f*cking sad" when you have experienced that over and over, and are now numb to it.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 9/26/14 at 7:48pm

Yes, it IS F*cking sad that it HAS happened over and over, so much so that you become numb to it.

[Islander_fan]

Posted: 9/27/14 at 7:20am

Sutton and Fisherman bob,

After thinking about this, you're right, not all cops are evil like I have made them seem. There are some good cops out there and several who've been helpful. Hell, there's one guy who's job it is to sit in a car by my school during school hours in case of emergency. Really friendly guy. I really enjoy talking sports with, having a smoke with him etc. Nice as nice can be.

But, I think that, after further thought, my issues lie within the NYPD system. I do think that it's a corrupt system and placing my anger at uniformed cops isn't going to do anything when it's the higher ups that I take issue with.

There is a real story (that is now in the middle of a court case) Regarding Adrian Schoolcraft, a former cop in Brooklyn. After being told by the commanding officers in meetings to to meet certain quotas of arrests and stop and frisks, lower higher crimes to lesser offenses and other things of that nature. Schoolcraft got a small audio recorder at a spy shop and proceeded to record that which he was hearing. In 2009 he went to one Police Plaza to report officer misconduct. The result, he got dragged out of his home and involuntarily committed to the psych hospital in Jamaica Queens. He is in the middle of a court case suing the saying that the forced hospitalization was a violation of his civil rights and a harsh reaction from him being a whistleblower. This is just a point that I have that shows why It's really more that I have trouble with police systems sometimes rather than the cops themselves. The story is an interesting one. He originally gave his findings to a writer for the Village Voice, who in turn turned the story into a book entitled "The NYPD Tapes."

It is things like this that make me wonder about the state of the NYPD, my local police force. I think that one can question it, without having to point the finger at the puppets when they really should be upset with the person pulling the strings, the puppet master.