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Originally Posted by SAB1
If people acted civilly most of these issues never happen.
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This can become a very chicken and egg sort of an argument.
You have things like the Stop and Frisk program in New York, which has been a documented failure and civil liberties infraction:
http://www.nyclu.org/content/stop-and-frisk-data
Then you have other major Police departments that conduct similar programs, though often under no official name or program, but it's perceptible to the public. NYC has over a decade of data showing the ineffectiveness of this program, yet they continue with it AND expect "civility" by the public?
I also haven't heard many (any?) other major police departments publicly condemn this program, which makes them sort of a "supporter via silence".
There always have been, and always will be, those individuals who will simply have no respect for polite society or the public servants thereof. That is "part of the job" for police officers, just as most of us work at jobs that have some form of "horrible customer" that we have to tolerate and put up with for the bigger picture.
Police departments across the US are competing for government funding to buy armor and weapons they simply don't need, and then practically looking for an excuse to use these new toys. They lead the public to believe that this is necessary to "keep us safe", when again there is ZERO statistical data to support this.
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Originally Posted by SAB1
The cops get tried by the media now, often on incorrect information
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And yet many officers and departments oppose the use of body cameras that would clear up these "incorrect" reports...