07-27-2016, 01:21 AM
(07-24-2016, 09:52 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Look at Mayor McBroadbrush do his thing. I do love when the mask slips on you and GMDabo and we get a glimpse of your true feelings. Does it at all bother you that the two of you and Lucie are merely different sides of the same coin? Regardless I'll address your inanity.
Racial profiling is a lazy term. Smart policing, especially for a veteran officer, involves reading cues that will often be misinterpreted by the uninitiated as profiling. Yes, I can see you sharpening your claws to point out that I just excused police abuse as based on some finely honed instinct. I expect that from you and your ilk, especially given the litany of posts I just quoted. Sadly, experience in dealing with criminals gives you a definite feel for criminal behavior, a proposition you roundly mocked in another thread. I get it, you come across as having the same "disease" that some LEO's get. They start to assume that everyone they deal with is bad due to the few civilians they deal with that are. You, quite clearly, have decided to lump all LEO's into the same group due to the few you've encountered who, rightfully perceived by you or no, have bent the rules. You come across as one of those defense attorneys who start to identify with their clients. It's sadly not uncommon but it's happily easy to spot.
The easy, and sadly true, explanation for your so called "Furgeson Effect" is that LEO's have realized that every action that results in a negative outcome will be examined under a worst possible scenario microscope. Largely due to the efforts of people like yourself, ironic no? Armchair quarterbacking at its worst assumes that the actor is aware of all knowledge present after the fact and thus are judged as such. Real life doesn't work that way. Given this state of affairs who can blame anyone for not wanting to expose themselves to undue liability by putting themselves in a position in which the merest hint of impropriety results in a national headline and another street protest? At this point a street protest that results in the potential death of some of their colleges. The national mood is such that all police killings are mentioned at the same time as any shooting when any logical person would concede that the total number of people killed by police is not a concern, the number of people questionably killed by the police is.
It would actually be amusing if the real world consequences weren't so sad, your echo chamber has produced the exact opposite effect you purport to desire. The police will no longer put themselves in a potentially precarious position because doing so puts them at risk of being pilloried by your ilk. They do their job and nothing more. Sadly, I was told by an old hat when I started this job that, "You can't get fired for being mediocre but you can absolutely get fired for trying to do too much." Your type sees this kind of statement as an indictment of police unions but in reality it is an indictment of you and all of those like you. You say you want pro-active policing, you say you want crime prevention but you are absolutely unwilling to forgive any honest mistake made in quest of such a goal. That's why you don't get it anymore and you have no one but yourself to blame.
So let me get this straight.
When a police officer is exposed to criminal behavior all the time it gives them super powers to recognize criminal behavior, but when a criminal defense attorney is exposed to lying cops all the time it just makes them stupid and assume innocent cops are guilty.
This is the most arrogant absurd logic I have ever seen.
"The exact same experience that gives me super powers makes other people stupid. Police are just naturally superior to all other humans."
Police have no one but themselves to blame for everyone assuming they are crooked liars. Everyone knows about the "Blue Wall". If police were not so proud of their ability to lie to protect each other they might be given more of a benefit of a doubt from citizens. And your bloviations about how superior police are to all other humans are more proof of the problem. How can you really claim that it is impossible for police to become jaded and paranoid based on their exposure to criminal activity? What is so special about them compared to every other human on earth?
My theory is that police here ea ch other lie so much about their inability to make mistakes that they eventually start to believe it.
