[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Blogstar][quote=scaredyclassic]I agree we need police.
I agree society should respect the police.
I believe police should always be honest and follow the law.
I believe they should receive the full brunt of the law when they dont.
I want full transparency and recording of all police interactions.
I believe all drugs should be legal and it is I’m moral to cage someone who has a drug problem.
I am glad to see at least some skepticism that police are always acting in our best interedt.
Is any of this really all that controversial except the drug positiin. Not sure what you’re so tweaked about?[/quote]
Not really tweaked. More fatigued. Seems like we are just talking around each other. Time to move on. BTW, every time I have ever been up for jury selection, the prosecution throws me off. I am with you on everything you just posted, against three strikes etc. At first I just started playing devil’s advocate here, then I begin to think, wow, There is a lot of misunderstanding here, the problem is bigger than bad acts by cops. Couldn’t open any discussion on that at all, just more example of bad acts thrown back, it’s all very onesided . Once you are told you are a wrong side of things after all that, well it’s easy to realize this is just all exhausting![/quote]
OK. I see that. I apologize. i agree the problem is bigger than just bad cops. it’s probably just a symptom of a sick society.
shoot, whats the answer? hell if I know. Id like to see a less mean society, one where there is no way in hell anyone can see that videotape of the way that indian guy was treated as in any way remotely acceptable. Course, I’d also liek to see less meanness on the part of the criminals also…but we have a giant machine that send s everyone to prison and churns them out even meaner and less employable and apart from society with every prison stay…
it’s a machine of horror.[/quote]
Thanks, Scaredy, It’s all very sad and frightening. I have a friend through another friend and I just visited him in Otay Mesa and then got him out a few weeks later after he did time instead of an ankle bracelet. Really nice guy, and black and poor. Has a small military pension I think. 50ish never in trouble before and seems to have acted out and made a violent threat due to paranoia. My friend hired a lawyer for our friend to settle for the bracelet but he chose two weeks instead. Luckily got it down to a misdemeanor. I am afraid with the paranoia thing he may become another recidivist statistic. Really beautiful, kind , open, well meaning person any time I have ever been around him.
