Aren't Cops Just Model Citizens?

[Xicano]

Assault and battery >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drwWWgGjClw

[flvegan]

1. A good number of them are, yes.

Quite a broad brush there, dontcha think?

[Mariana]

2. There were a bunch of cops in that video.

They watched this crime being committed. Why didn't one or more of them arrest the criminal cop on the spot? Why didn't they use the taser on him? Why didn't they use any kind of force to make him stop? They'd have done those things to anyone else they observed committing a violent crime like this.

Model citizens don't tolerate working with violent criminals, and they don't help violent criminals get away with their crimes.

Y'know, in almost every one of these videos of police brutality, there's more than one cop present when the crime against the citizen is committed. Often, as in this one, there are a lot of them present. In EVERY case, they either stand by and do nothing, or they actively participate in the crime.

When we see that police officers refuse to enforce the law against their criminal colleages EVERY SINGLE TIME we find out about a crime committed by cops, I think it's pretty fair to assume that the overwhelming majority of them aren't model citizens.

[flvegan]

3. Don't dial 911 then.

Don't want non model citizens helping you out, do you?

But hey, a YouTube video shows a group of cops likely in the wrong in a number of instances. Shame we don't take into consideration the overwhelming number of cops, departments working 24/7, not wrapped up in a pretty little video less than 10 minutes long.

Please.

[slampoet]

4. All or nothing. Thanks for the false choice.

[flvegan]

5. Sorry, I was responding to an "all or nothing false choice" OP and response

Got anything else?

[slampoet]

7. I don't need you to skew

I can read.

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[Mariana]

9. In EVERY instance

when we have video, or audio, or newspaper stories of cops watching other cops commit violent crimes, they refuse to enforce the law against their criminal colleagues. They don't shoot them. They don't taser them. They don't tackle them. They don't cuff them. They don't arrest them. They do NOTHING to protect their fellow citizens from the criminal cops.

You can show me otherwise if you'd like, and I'd be very happy to find out about it. Honestly, I'd feel better seeing some evidence that SOME police officer somewhere won't tolerate working with violent criminals and letting them get away with their crimes, because if there's one, there are probably others. One instance of a cop arresting another cop on the spot, after observing him or her committing a violent crime against a citizen will be just fine. You know, just like they'd do with anyone else who they watched break the law and hurt someone. It doesn't have to be video, either. A news story will do nicely.

[flvegan]

11. I have to applaud you looking at every single instance.

Certainly, you'd not have posted that without having done that.

I mean, OMG, YouTube is the final proof on this!

[elocs]

8. That was my thought also, but the broad brush is a very popular tool here at DU.

When it is employed in one of our noble and righteous causes its use may always be justified.

[mrcheerful]

6. What you seeking the attention of pro police squad members or something?

Any negative posts about cops will get the people who have had little or no bad experiences with police contact crying your broad brushing police as there are good cops out there because they read of a cop who saved a puppy or child or accident victim or some other heroic act police are paid to respond to. Never mind that after doing such a heroic deed the same cop will go out of his way to arrest anyone they suspect of a crime and will do everything they have to in order to put that person behind bar's even if it means tricking the person into confessing to a crime he never committed.

That is how the justice system works and no matter what good a police officer did it doesn't equal out to police are good citizens any more then it means a convicted criminal is a bad person. Most people are not able to judge police as like every other human being they are capable doing very good things and very bad things depending on the event at the time of the incident. Just like the cops who beat civil rights workers and protesters in the 60's , do you think that is the only actions the police did or do you realize that the same cops had done good things before that event? Cops are a double edged sword that can protect you one minute and cut your head off the next.

[proteus_lives]

12. That broad-brush never goes out of style.

[npk]

13. Glad that cop got arrested and jailed

He clearly was in the wrong profession to begin with, with such a short fuse and hostile attitude he has no business being a cop.