Why do they want a 110lb woman to have to go toe-to-toe with a 250lb man with nothing more protective than vomiting on themselves?
That would work for me.
As soon as I see someone vomiting on themselves, I am off sharpish.
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Why do they want a 110lb woman to have to go toe-to-toe with a 250lb man with nothing more protective than vomiting on themselves?
That would work for me.
As soon as I see someone vomiting on themselves, I am off sharpish.
As for police having guns, I am glad to live in a country where they do not all carry guns.
They are not generally the brightest people in the world, are they?
Thanks Captain K... I really do appreciate the retraction. Some cops are assholes, I fully acknowledge this...but, not all of us are. During my 19 years, I've always tried to be as fair as possible... Sometimes to the extreme... So, I'm sorry, when anyone makes a blanket statement about LEO's, I get butt hurt.Sorry, I didn't want to upset anyone.
I'll remove it.
Thanks Captain K... I really do appreciate the retraction. Some cops are assholes, I fully acknowledge this...but, not all of us are. During my 19 years, I've always tried to be as fair as possible... Sometimes to the extreme... So, I'm sorry, when anyone makes a blanket statement about LEO's, I get butt hurt.
Thank you very much... It's for the most part, a thankless job.I assume both of you are/were in public service. Allow me to thank you for all the times you have been of assistance.
Are you calling cops dim?...
Some are very smart people, some are dim, most are pretty average (in my experience.) In other words, they are just like most other groups out there.
So, I could be be wrong... But, you don't hold LEO' s in very high esteem ...I get it. Your pregogrative.
So, I could be be wrong... But, you don't hold LEO' s in very high esteem ...I get it. Your pregogrative.
Not at all. I think very highly of many LEO's I know. Some are average people, some are idiots. But that's true of every segment of society.
Actually, I can't see why people should be restricted from any non WMD. Honestly if some nutbar wants to go on a rampage with one they will get it somehow.
My Logic: Bob murders Diane. Steve should not be punished for Bob's actions.
Captain Kremmen said:
Sorry, I didn't want to upset anyone.
I'll remove it.
Filed and noted for the next time someone complains about political correctness.
Let us be blunt, Captain K: Police are shit.
Once upon a time, perhaps there was something noble about being a cop. But let me try a wartime analogy.
Several years ago, I listened to an NPR story about video games, of all things. While the NRA might want us to blame video games for violence, what of the U.S. Army putting out a FPS to encourage kids to enlist?
The NPR story was about the death of one young soldier who followed that route. He enlisted in the Army after playing the FPS.
The young man was assigned to the armory, where he managed and maintained weapons.
To the other, though, the civilian bosses in charge of the war made a number of serious (ahem!) "mistakes". As a result of personnel shortages, the young man with no combat experience whatsoever was either asked to volunteer or else specifically assigned to a hot patrol. He did not return alive.
When the planes hit the towers in 2001, who am I to sneer at those who rushed to enlist in their country's defense? When we invaded Iraq in 2003, there were many already in the service, and they followed their orders appropriately.
But by 2006-07, when this poor kid joined up?
No, I'm sorry. Any reasonable observer could tell that the war was (A) dishonestly justified, and (B) a disaster in motion. It is hard for me to accept the tragedy of these deaths. They enlisted to support injustice in a theatre where their government was already known to be shorting the troops.
That poor kid, however unfortunately stupid he was, signed on for this.
It's a tragedy, but I'm sorry, he should have known better to go to war. His death is his own damn fault. My condolences to his mother and the rest of his family, and I know they tried to talk him out of it, but no, the war was already bad when he signed on. Whatever else I might say about the Army and its ethics in trying to recruit juveniles to commit to war, this poor kid, this stupid kid, decided to sign his name to participate in a shitty, dishonest, useless war.
Certes, there is plenty we could say about how he came to his decision.
Let us please apply that notion to the police.
Once upon a time, perhaps, Officer O'Malley twirled his baton as he strolled through the Chicago market, tipping his hat and saying hello with that charming brogue as he passd.
I'm forty years old, man. And at no time in my life have the police, at least in the United States of America, been a respectable institution. It is only because I am a pacifist that I would not endorse a wholesale slaughter of those who wear the badge. The days of a few bad apples ruining the reputation of the bunch are over. The blue wall is in place, and the question is no longer a matter of law and justice, but one of what respect a policeman deserves. In the U.S., for instance, we are having a low-key argument about whether or not the actions of police officers should be subject to the public record. Right now, there are many metropolitan police departments succeeding in having photographic and video evidence of police brutality thrown out because police officers apparently have a right to privacy while violating the law in under color of the public trust. And in Seattle, for instance, they will literally beat people for taking pictures while they break the law. And they have the courts behind them.
So I'm sorry. Don't worry about offending anyone, sir. The police are shit, and that's the way it goes. And anyone who is offended better be able to say that they (A) are a LEO, and (B) have never committed any wrongdoing, including simple errors and omissions. After all, they have a great privilege in being commissioned to detain, remove, and even kill people. And all across our allegedly great nation, police officers, departments, and the union all complain at the prospect that those so entrusted ought to behave responsibly with that authority.
We had a really bad stretch in my corner of the world a couple years ago. It was easy to side with the police; a seemingly random drive-by shooting, a seemingly random hit against four police officers in a coffee shop, and a domestic violence call that saw an officer gravely wounded and a young girl take violent action against her father.
And we were all supposed to feel really, really bad for these guys, as if they had never, ever done anything wrong—a presupposition that flies in the face of reality.
While I'm quite certain that these individuals did nothing to warrant their deaths on those days, I cannot participate in the ritual whitewash of the police. Quite frankly, whenever a cop is killed for whatever reason, I simply remind myself that this is part of the job. They signed on for it. They have not conducted themselves honorably. They knew what they were getting into. Fuck 'em.
Gremmie said:
You hate everyone don't you? Unless they think like you that is. All cops are shit eh? No exceptions?
Don't give me that shit. It's simply significant that you have no better answer. So instead of invoking Godwin, why don't you put up a defense of police officers? You know, like the insanely stupid claim that there are cops out there who have never, and will never falsify a police report?
Come on, make the affirmative assertion. Or is it that you know you're affirming a negative that you can't prove?
Ask a cop the following question: "Have you never omitted a relevant fact from a police report?"
Any cop who says no is lying.
And here's the problem with that: It passes muster in court.
I live in a state where the police are allowed to destroy evidence that contradicts their case. Not just some of them. Not just the "bad seeds". All of them.
What say you?
Gremmie said:
Listen dude... You made a blanket statement, that all cops are shit... I spent just short of 20 years in law enforcement. Have I ever falsified a report, or destroyed evidence? The answer would be a definitive NO.
(chortle!)
(No, seriously, dude, don't try to make your own bad decisions other people's problem. And, yes, you're asserting a falsehood. Whether that constitutes a lie? Well, maybe you believe that whatever details you included or omitted from your reports were appropriate, but that's merely your opinion.)
Gremmie said:
So you're calling me a liar then?