Reply to Video shows moments before North Miami Police shot unarmed man

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "Video shows moments before North Miami Police shot unarmed man"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher too. It doesn't give me some  high ground on how to discuss. I understand and applaud your outrage over each incident. No police abuse is acceptable. However, i think that the nonstop posting of police violations has made the rate seem far more than it actually is. It is not bad to occasionally put these incidents in perspective as they relate to non incidents in a country as vast as ours. There are bad apple surgeons, bad apple judges, ba apple politicians, bad apple soldiers, and yes bad apple teachers. But working with teachers - you would be indignant if all teachers were painted with the brush of the few awful ones, and i think in this past year our society has come close to accepting treating police as a whole as an abusive class. Which is not supported by the fact of all the good policing that happens every day. When you talk about institutional problems I am listening to your ideas for solutions. Some of your proposals sound like they will help law enforcement be better at reaching its goal -to protect us and civil society.[/quote]

We are not treating the police as a whole as an abusive class.  If you would apply your same logic you would realize that there are only a few bad apples doing that as well.  But in your double standard, the public servants who carry guns and have a duty to protect the public receive more deference than an internet poster exercising their first amendment rights.

The fact is that last year 38 unarmed black people were shot and killed by police.  That's a lot, certainly enough to describe as a big problem.   If you feel that the problem has been overemphasized, maybe it's because you don't think something should be done to prevent this.  Maybe you think you have to break a few eggs and in this case the number is 38.

But to me the level of attention should be whatever is necessary until the police demonstrate substantial effort to fix the problem.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics