Why do you dislike law enforcement?

[Anonymous]

The Karen Reed tangent is wacky. Are you okay pp?

[Anonymous]

So I have spent some time trying to determine the heck with those mounted police trying to get the horses to stomp the man on the ground.

One sub-reddit thread explains the man threw gasoline on the ground and lit it to try and catch the mounted cops in the fire. The accompanying video shows the fire, but video is very dark and hard to see what is going on. You can see two figures running away. I could not see where the fellow on the ground enters the picture. Video was filmed from a highrise, with the sub-reddit thread stating there are two separate videos from different locations floating around.

This video adds nuance to why the cops were that angry.

[Anonymous]

I like law enforcement a lot more ever since speed cameras came out since they are not really involved with traffic enforcement anymore.

[Anonymous]

Only criminals don't like the police.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I have spent some time trying to determine the heck with those mounted police trying to get the horses to stomp the man on the ground.

One sub-reddit thread explains the man threw gasoline on the ground and lit it to try and catch the mounted cops in the fire. The accompanying video shows the fire, but video is very dark and hard to see what is going on. You can see two figures running away. I could not see where the fellow on the ground enters the picture. Video was filmed from a highrise, with the sub-reddit thread stating there are two separate videos from different locations floating around.

This video adds nuance to why the cops were that angry.

Only if you believe the cops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^OP as good as stated it doesn't matter if this guy is deliberately killed by the cops. In his/her mind, it's justified payback for the violent protesters.

I don't agree with the protesters. I think illegal immigrants have overwhelmed the U.S. social network system. I don't condone violence from the protesters, but what I saw in the LAPD mounted police behavior towards the downed man is awful and unacceptable.

DP. Protest turns violent? Time to go home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if you’re still reading, OP, but my answer is complicated:

When I was a child my parents told me proudly that my Dad was always confused for LE. He was an Irish guy in the Bronx in the 70s. So, in my mind, LE was to be admired.

After we left NYC my family lived in a very small town north of NYC. My parents ran a tight ship: get good grades, don’t get into trouble—period. Respect LE. I followed their rules to a T. Still viewed LE in a positive light.

Imagine my surprise when in middle school I would see LE at HS parties **drinking**. I wasn’t even AT the parties, I was walking home from babysitting and they were on the front lawn on duty. Multiply that scenario many times over 8 years of late elem + HS.

Then, I watched at some some of the least engaged in school kids I went to HS with go into LE. I won’t say they were unintelligent b/c school isn’t for everyone but they were not engaged AND they were bullies!

Then, add to that years of watching LE kill innocent people of color.

Oh, and if you are still in doubt: the Karen Read trial! Do I think all of LE is like this: nope. But, my experiences have made me very suspect of them.

Sounds like an accurate story from the 80's, no doubt. Things have improved significantly in LE over the last 30+ years. There are a million rules/regulations and most officers in major cities are wearing cameras.

But people are getting their information from sources that are attempting to piss off the viewer because it sells. You don't see white people getting shot by cops because it just doesn't get the views.

I’m th poster you’re replying to..

So, you’re ignoring George Floyd? The Karen Reed trial? Children playing in the park being killed by LE? People sleeping in their bed being killed by LE? WTH?

You know Social Media, not law enforcement. Watching videos or reading stories is not the same as actual knowledge and experience in a field. You also don't seem to have an understanding of how the media operates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if you’re still reading, OP, but my answer is complicated:

When I was a child my parents told me proudly that my Dad was always confused for LE. He was an Irish guy in the Bronx in the 70s. So, in my mind, LE was to be admired.

After we left NYC my family lived in a very small town north of NYC. My parents ran a tight ship: get good grades, don’t get into trouble—period. Respect LE. I followed their rules to a T. Still viewed LE in a positive light.

Imagine my surprise when in middle school I would see LE at HS parties **drinking**. I wasn’t even AT the parties, I was walking home from babysitting and they were on the front lawn on duty. Multiply that scenario many times over 8 years of late elem + HS.

Then, I watched at some some of the least engaged in school kids I went to HS with go into LE. I won’t say they were unintelligent b/c school isn’t for everyone but they were not engaged AND they were bullies!

Then, add to that years of watching LE kill innocent people of color.

Oh, and if you are still in doubt: the Karen Read trial! Do I think all of LE is like this: nope. But, my experiences have made me very suspect of them.

Sounds like an accurate story from the 80's, no doubt. Things have improved significantly in LE over the last 30+ years. There are a million rules/regulations and most officers in major cities are wearing cameras.

But people are getting their information from sources that are attempting to piss off the viewer because it sells. You don't see white people getting shot by cops because it just doesn't get the views.

I’m th poster you’re replying to..

So, you’re ignoring George Floyd? The Karen Reed trial? Children playing in the park being killed by LE? People sleeping in their bed being killed by LE? WTH?

You know Social Media, not law enforcement. Watching videos or reading stories is not the same as actual knowledge and experience in a field. You also don't seem to have an understanding of how the media operates.

Well then listen to me when I say that I have been personally mistreated by police. I have been profiled for being in the “wrong” neighborhood and they tossed my whole car while barking insults to my passenger because they were certain that they caught a couple of lower class drug users and they could get away with the mistreatment. That’s why I don’t trust cops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if you’re still reading, OP, but my answer is complicated:

When I was a child my parents told me proudly that my Dad was always confused for LE. He was an Irish guy in the Bronx in the 70s. So, in my mind, LE was to be admired.

After we left NYC my family lived in a very small town north of NYC. My parents ran a tight ship: get good grades, don’t get into trouble—period. Respect LE. I followed their rules to a T. Still viewed LE in a positive light.

Imagine my surprise when in middle school I would see LE at HS parties **drinking**. I wasn’t even AT the parties, I was walking home from babysitting and they were on the front lawn on duty. Multiply that scenario many times over 8 years of late elem + HS.

Then, I watched at some some of the least engaged in school kids I went to HS with go into LE. I won’t say they were unintelligent b/c school isn’t for everyone but they were not engaged AND they were bullies!

Then, add to that years of watching LE kill innocent people of color.

Oh, and if you are still in doubt: the Karen Read trial! Do I think all of LE is like this: nope. But, my experiences have made me very suspect of them.

Sounds like an accurate story from the 80's, no doubt. Things have improved significantly in LE over the last 30+ years. There are a million rules/regulations and most officers in major cities are wearing cameras.

But people are getting their information from sources that are attempting to piss off the viewer because it sells. You don't see white people getting shot by cops because it just doesn't get the views.

I’m th poster you’re replying to..

So, you’re ignoring George Floyd? The Karen Reed trial? Children playing in the park being killed by LE? People sleeping in their bed being killed by LE? WTH?

You know Social Media, not law enforcement. Watching videos or reading stories is not the same as actual knowledge and experience in a field. You also don't seem to have an understanding of how the media operates.

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The media would have you believe these are common occurrences, whereas the reality is only about 30 unarmed people a year in a country of almost 400,000,000 are killed by the police.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like law enforcement a lot more ever since speed cameras came out since they are not really involved with traffic enforcement anymore.

I miss those days. I would flirt my way out of a ticket

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The photos of the anti-LE riots in NYC and LA today show just how out of touch and radical the Democratic Party has become.

Most or all of them do not have a job. They have time to vandalize and run the streets.

[Anonymous]

The cops do not take male domestic violence victims seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cops do not take male domestic violence victims seriously.

Thank you for calling attention to this very real issue. Not many people understand how little support male DV victims have available to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Karen Reed tangent is wacky. Are you okay pp?

It’s not a tangent at all. LE in that case and subsequent trials have been completely incompetent and have banded together in ways that affirm many people’s negative impressions of LE, myself included.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if you’re still reading, OP, but my answer is complicated:

When I was a child my parents told me proudly that my Dad was always confused for LE. He was an Irish guy in the Bronx in the 70s. So, in my mind, LE was to be admired.

After we left NYC my family lived in a very small town north of NYC. My parents ran a tight ship: get good grades, don’t get into trouble—period. Respect LE. I followed their rules to a T. Still viewed LE in a positive light.

Imagine my surprise when in middle school I would see LE at HS parties **drinking**. I wasn’t even AT the parties, I was walking home from babysitting and they were on the front lawn on duty. Multiply that scenario many times over 8 years of late elem + HS.

Then, I watched at some some of the least engaged in school kids I went to HS with go into LE. I won’t say they were unintelligent b/c school isn’t for everyone but they were not engaged AND they were bullies!

Then, add to that years of watching LE kill innocent people of color.

Oh, and if you are still in doubt: the Karen Read trial! Do I think all of LE is like this: nope. But, my experiences have made me very suspect of them.

Sounds like an accurate story from the 80's, no doubt. Things have improved significantly in LE over the last 30+ years. There are a million rules/regulations and most officers in major cities are wearing cameras.

But people are getting their information from sources that are attempting to piss off the viewer because it sells. You don't see white people getting shot by cops because it just doesn't get the views.

I’m th poster you’re replying to..

So, you’re ignoring George Floyd? The Karen Reed trial? Children playing in the park being killed by LE? People sleeping in their bed being killed by LE? WTH?

You know Social Media, not law enforcement. Watching videos or reading stories is not the same as actual knowledge and experience in a field. You also don't seem to have an understanding of how the media operates.

Well then listen to me when I say that I have been personally mistreated by police. I have been profiled for being in the “wrong” neighborhood and they tossed my whole car while barking insults to my passenger because they were certain that they caught a couple of lower class drug users and they could get away with the mistreatment. That’s why I don’t trust cops.

Why were you pulled over?