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JFN1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 02:48 PM Original message |
Poll question: Cops Are Out Of Control |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. kick |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
2. Don't tar all cops with this brush. My beef is that this bastard will probably |
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JFN1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 02:57 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. He is |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:40 PM Response to Reply #4 |
25. That's the problem. The misguided code of silence. But I think you are |
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tanngrisnir3 (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 04:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Sorry, that's just fantasy BS. There is no 99% the public doesn't know about |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 07:10 PM Response to Reply #30 |
38. Errr,,, OK. Guess thats that. |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
3. Authoritarian cop-defenders coming in 3...2...1... |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 02:59 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I'm waiting for them to demand a semen sample when canvassing for a sex crime. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:07 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. And women everywhere are having litters of 8 babies--it's an epidemic, I tells ya! |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:19 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Thank you. nt |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:23 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. I'm willing to let those cops off the hook |
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tanngrisnir3 (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Speaking from professional experience, that is incredibly hard to do. |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:39 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. Don't cops still derisively call the "goody-two-shoes" "Serpicos"? n/t |
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tanngrisnir3 (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 04:31 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. I've never heard anyone say that. There's simply too great a liability |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 04:41 PM Response to Reply #17 |
31. Well, I've observed it here in Seattle. |
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tanngrisnir3 (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 05:04 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Your estimation if you're not a cop, is based on vapor. |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 05:24 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. My estimation of how many of them speak out |
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tanngrisnir3 (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 05:32 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. They tend to keep silent until there is a complete investigation, a trial... |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 05:42 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. There are plenty of cases in which we've already had trials |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:59 PM Response to Reply #8 |
28. Good point. Bad cops are as rare as humans giving birth to eight babies at a time. |
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Threedifferentones (820 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 06:27 PM Response to Reply #8 |
37. Well Shakespeare I agree that saying "cops are generally corrupt" |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. Juvenille cop-bashers coming in 3...2...1... |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
23. You're right. Every cop is doing all of those things, so we should condemn all of them equally |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-02-09 01:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
44. So if we don't agree that all cops are bad- does that make us "authoritarian defenders"? |
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tanngrisnir3 (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
5. If you think there are hundreds of cases of restrained suspects being shot... |
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JFN1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:07 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. How can I back something up with statistics that is not reported? |
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tanngrisnir3 (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:21 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Hundreds of people each year, in custody, restrained and shot? |
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liberalmuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
7. My nephew and his friends were harassed by 3 cops last weekend. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
20. Both my kids have been harrassed by cops many times |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
10. Doctors are out of control, lawyers are out of control, judges are out of control |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
11. If I'm in trouble I'm glad to see the police - I will try to avoid fast scary gestures however |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
14. S & M loving cop defenders coming in 5... 4... 3... 2... |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:43 PM Response to Reply #14 |
27. C'mon, you've got nothin' to hide!!! What're you afraid of?! |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
16. Good cops cover for bad cops... |
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tanngrisnir3 (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:31 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. No, not to my experience they don't. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:33 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Delete. |
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LooseWilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
22. The cops have helped me out a number of times. |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:40 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. You should have left those poor people alone |
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LooseWilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 05:09 PM Response to Reply #26 |
33. For one sweet moment, I was in bed with The Man. |
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MattBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-02-09 01:55 PM Response to Reply #22 |
50. So you are bragging about criminal behavior? |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
39. In Chicago, we had to pay $19 million to settle law suits stemming from |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
40. No, I'm not afraid of the police at all. |
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d206s (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-02-09 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
41. Wanna guess what board this cop posts on ? |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-02-09 01:03 PM Response to Original message |
42. Cops don't scare me at all |
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Ohio Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-02-09 01:03 PM Response to Original message |
43. No - Cops do not scare me |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-02-09 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
45. Cops= domestic terrorists, in most cases, sadly. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-02-09 01:08 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. Really? |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-02-09 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
46. DU has a love-hate relationship with cops. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-02-09 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
48. Bringing the war back home. |
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psychmommy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-02-09 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
49. there are good cops and bad cops. |
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QueenOfCalifornia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-02-09 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
51. This is not |
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