Gotta love the Popo

If anything, police should be held to a higher standard than that of the public
As it stands now, police can commit crimes with impunity because, in most situations, they investigate themselves. Behavior that would get an ordinary citizen charged, convicted and incarcerated is routinely ignored by the powers that be because police are considered to be above the law as the law is whatever they say it is, the Constitution be damned.

Police officers are the only group that can murder someone by falsely claiming that they feared for their lives, have 48 to 72 hours to get their stories straight, and have a union lawyer and compliant prosecutor-steered grand jury absolve them of responsibility.

Police demand immediate compliance (Israeli-style)with two or three cops issuing and yelling out conflicting commands, it is easy to see how a person under police control could lose his life for merely attempting to follow conflicting directions.

Ever notice that police unions are fraternal? This should tell you something. The thin-blue-line is a gang, little different than street gangs, at least when it comes to covering-up their questionable and quite often, illegal and criminal behavior.

In today’s day and age, officer safety trumps de-escalation of force. This, in part, is due to the militarization of the police along with training in Israeli police tactics. This becomes a problem, with the us vs. them attitude that is fosters, along with the fact that Israel is a very different place, being on a constant war footing, its police tactics are very different.

It is interesting to note that our military operates under rules of engagement and escalation of force doctrine, unlike American police departments which have NO rules of engagement policies.
There are too many instances of police being given a pass, even when incontrovertible video and audio evidence is presented. Grand juries, guided by police-friendly prosecutors, quite often refuse to charge those police officers who abuse their authority.

Police officers, who want to do the right thing, are quite often marginalized and put into harms way, by their own brethren. When a police officer is beating on someone that is already restrained while yelling, stop resisting THAT is but one reason police have a bad name in many instances this makes the good cops who are standing around, witnessing their brethren in blue beating on a restrained suspect, culpable as well.

Here are changes that can help reduce police-induced violence:

1. Get rid of police unions. Police unions (fraternities) protect the guilty, and are responsible for the massive whitewashing of questionable police behavior that is presently being committed.

2. Eliminate both absolute and qualified immunity for all public officials. This includes, prosecutors and judges, police and firefighters, code enforcement and child protective services officials, and others who deal with the citizenry. The threat of being sued personally would encourage them to behave themselves. Require police officers to be bonded by an insurance company, with their own funds. No bond=no job. You can bet that insurance companies would be more diligent in weeding out the bad apples than our present system.

3. Any public funds disbursed to citizens as a result of police misconduct should come out of police pension funds-NOT from the taxpayers.

4. Regular drug-testing of police officers as well as incident-based drug testing should take place whenever an officer is involved in a violent situation with a citizen-no exceptions.

5. Testing for steroid use should be a part of the drug testing program. You know damn well, many police officers bulk up with the help of steroids. Steroids also affect users mentally as well, making them more aggressive. The potential for abuse of citizens increases greatly with steroid use.

6. Internal affairs should only be used for disagreements between individual officers-NOT for investigations involving citizen abuse. State-level investigations should be mandatory for all suspected abuses involving citizens.

7. Prosecutors should be charged with malfeasance IF any evidence implicating police officer misconduct is not presented to the grand jury.

8. A national or state-by-state database of abusive individuals who should NEVER be allowed to perform police work should be established-a blacklist of abusive (former) police officers.

9. Most people are unaware that police have special rules that prohibit them from being questioned from 48 to 72 hours. This allows them to get their stories straight and makes it easier to cover up bad police behavior. Police must be subject to the same laws as civilians.

10. All police should be required to wear bodycams and utilize dashcams that cannot be turned off. Any police officers who causes a dash or body cam to be turned off should be summarily fired-no excuses. Today’s body and dash cams are reliable enough to withstand harsh treatment. Body and dashcam footage should be uploaded to a public channel on the cloud for public perusal.

11. All interrogations must be video and audio recorded. Police should be prohibited from lying or fabricating stories in order to get suspects to confess. False confessions ARE a problem in many departments. Unknown to most people, police can lie with impunity while civilians can be charged with lying to police-fair? I think not.

12. Any legislation passed that restricts the rights of ordinary citizens, such as firearms magazine capacity limits, types of weapons allowed, or restrictive concealed-carry laws should apply equally to police. No special exemptions to be given to police. Laws must be equally applied.

13 Asset forfeiture is a form of legalized robbery under color of law and must be abolished. We must return to Constitutional principles when it comes to crimefighting. The so-called war on drugs is actually a war on the citizenry and has had an extremely corrosive effect on the Constitutional principles that our country is (supposed to be) founded on.

14. No-knock raids must be abolished as they put both police and (especially citizens) in harms way. Even the Nazis knocked on the door before gaining entry.

15. SWAT teams must be reigned in on their dynamic entry techniques. Utilizing SWAT teams for routine situations is dangerous to both police and citizens. Smashing everything in sight just because they can, blaming it on an adrenaline rush must end. There is NEVER a reason for destroying property.

16. The 21 foot rule must be modified or abolished. American police training assumes that ANYONE that gets within 21 feet of a police officer and is deemed a threat, even a non-life-threatening situation is fair game for the use of lethal force. Persons with rakes, sticks, knives, or even their fists have been executed, even when non-lethal means would have been more appropriate. Police hide behind the 21 foot rule in order to justify questionable police shootings. Their excuse, when brought before a prosecutor or grand jury is that they feared for their life, or that is the way they are trained. THAT has to change. Police have a greater responsibility NOT to use deadly force against those that they could easily subdue by other means.

17. Clear and concise rules of engagement must be established for ALL American law enforcement personnel. Any deviation from these rules must be severely punished. It is interesting to note that American military veterans in combat zones operate under more restrictive rules of engagement than American law enforcement. In fact, American law enforcement operates under NO rules of engagement. They have total carte blanche to destroy whoever they want. THAT has to change.

Police work is not inherently dangerous; there are many other professions that are much more dangerous.
A little Andy Taylor could go a long way in allaying fears that citizens have of police.
That being said, I have no problem with police officers who do their job in a fair, conscientious manner, however, it is time to call to task those police officers who only protect and serve themselves.

Never ever let a low IQ fucknut search your car, all cops today are garbage.

Carry on….

“Wester, who comes from a prominent law enforcement family, began working as a deputy in May of 2016, the Tallahassee Democrat reported.”

He was trying to impress his family with his arrest record. Street stories at the dinner table, they gave him status.

I grew up with a guy who’s stepfather was the chief of police and got him in the fire department at the earliest age possible. He moved up to the top ranks and then his son came on.

One night they busted his son setting a fire…he would have been called to and then found out he had set a bunch of others.

“Popo” is also German slang for buttocks.