Why do people hate the police when all they do is try and help?

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• Sorry I did not realise you answered it. I do agree with you point. Have a good day :)

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  by HayleyVenus07 on April 1st, 2011

• HayleyVenus07: have a good day too!
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  by iwnit on April 1st, 2011

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• When you give someone a badge and a gun they lose the right to be an asshole. Police must come out of the general population. But they should be the cream of our civilization, not the dregs.

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  by LarryH54 on January 11th, 2011

• In a perfect world, sure, maybe....however, last time I checked...THIS world was not perfect...some stinkers, slip through...remember, a Bully always knows they are acting in the wrong and they become very good at hiding their wrong attitude and subsequent behaviors from most people...they look for victims. Always sad.

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  by Redhawk on May 31st, 2011

• Yes they do slip through. And when they show their true nature, they, like pedophile priests and teachers, etc. should be fired, not hidden behind the blue brotherhood.

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  by LarryH54 on May 31st, 2011

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• Anarchy is the absence of rules.
  With out the Police you would have the Military enforcing their rules (UCMJ) not anarchy.
  Trust me, you prefer the police.

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  by MoiBein on September 26th, 2009

• As it happens I don't dislike the Police at all. I don't always agree with all that they do, but on the whole they are essential and do a good job. Of course, when I was a lot younger (about 15 or so), I hated them and thought I knew it all - just like all other teenagers. Now I am 38 and grown up with my own child, I realise what a moron I was! And if you think it was just my ideas that were idiotic, well, they paled in comparison next to the utter drivel I used to come out with!!!! To get back onto the subject, I would hate to live within the confines of military rule. Have you had such an experience?

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  by Mushen on September 26th, 2009

• Anarchy is good.

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  by LePoupon is a proper gander. on February 25th, 2010

• but not ever going to be much fun though is it? When you think of 'anarchy' the last thing that springs to mind is a group of happy carefree people full of the joys of spring who seem to have a lot of fun. No indeed - those involved are grim and prone angry outbursts and a serious lack of social life.

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  by Mushen on March 28th, 2010

• Thats from your movie experience of anarchy? or maybe news reports of people trying to start anarchy? Do animals in the jungle just kill each other randomly?

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  by LePoupon is a proper gander. on March 29th, 2010

• @LePoupon is a proper gander.: Yes, that's why they are animals.

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  by Fine Again on August 25th, 2010

• Actually they don't animals kill to eat, they at times kill for territory, but no animal kills like humans do.

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  by LePoupon is a proper gander. on August 26th, 2010

• @LePoupon is a proper gander.: True, but some humans have good reasons.

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  by Fine Again on August 26th, 2010

• Some, animals tend to always.

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  by LePoupon is a proper gander. on August 26th, 2010

• No, without the "Police" you would have the Sheriff.
  
  (The Sheriff has been around a lot longer than City Police or State Police. What do those guys do that the Sheriff can't do? Why do those institutions exist?)

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  by purplecows on March 19th, 2012

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• +6

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  by -Rohit- on October 20th, 2009

• and the job is almost as dangerous as being a taxi driver

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  by purplecows on April 24th, 2011

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• thanx talimze.+6

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  by -Rohit- on September 26th, 2009

• To be honest. I haven't

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  by -Rohit- on September 26th, 2009

• I masturbate to other people telling me about times they masturbated.

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  by Talimze on September 26th, 2009

• The thought of that - makes me wanna puke.

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  by canbfrisky on April 24th, 2010

• That's because you're ashamed of yourself.

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  by Talimze on April 24th, 2010

• uh- huh

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  by canbfrisky on April 24th, 2010

• I masturbate to people talking about puking

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  by purplecows on June 27th, 2011

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• Why would anybody hate the police? I'll tell you why!
  
  * They killed my uncle Charles from abuse because they thought he shot one of their "buddies", later to find out that he didn't then they caught the real guy!!!!
  * They lied about me "skidding" across the interstate.
  * They put my Grandfather in jail on false charges even though we had enough evidence. (The cops told the judge he assulted them!!![Picture an 80 yr old man versus 5 young and strong cops! Nobody got hurt!])
  * They put my cousin in juvie and thought he was doing drugs when it was the foreign exchange student that did the drugs (the video was on youtube for a while but it had to be removed)
  * When my mom was a teen, a cop that she came to for help...RAPED HER!!!!!!!!
  * Cops beat my dad with hard sticks(but thank god he's alive).
  * When I called the local cops for a robber report, they showed up 6 hours late!!!!!!!
  I F*CKING HATE COPS!!!!!!! THEY ARREST THE WRONG PEOPLE, ABUSE PEOPLE, AND KILL THE WRONG PEOPLE!!!!! I HATE COPS!!!!!!!
  
  Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. references "the African immigrant killed while reaching for his wallet, the Maryland man beaten senseless as he lay in bed, the Miami man beaten to death for speeding, the dozens of men jailed on manufactured evidence in Los Angeles and manufactured police testimony in Tulia, Texas, the man sodomized with a broomstick in New York. Are we supposed to believe it coincidence that the men this happens to always happen to be black
  
  Blacks are 30 to 50 percent more likely to be arrested than whites for the same crime. Their prison sentences are longer. In the notorious "driving while black" New Jersey trooper case, African-Americans made up 70 percent of those randomly pulled over on the New Jersey Turnpike -- but fewer than 17 percent of motorists. Blacks are more likely to be stopped, frisked, arrested, beaten and murdered by the police than members of all other ethnic groups. American racism against blacks remains systematic, pervasive, and murderous. When there's a policeman in the picture, it's best to be white.
  
  I'll never forget the New York traffic cop who stepped off the curb in front of my dad's car on Madison Avenue and ordered him to turn right. He wrote him up for illegal right turn. "But you told me to," He protested. "Wrong place, wrong time," that cop smirked. $175 plus three points on my license. Dad appealed. The cop lied under oath. The court believed him!!!!!!
  
  When my friend forgot to turn on her headlights as we pulled out of a parking lot while on a road trip with my roommate, a Massachusetts cop pulled us over. I couldn't begrudge him probable cause; cigarette smoke billowed out the window, Cheech and Chong-style, when I opened it. Still, what came next was unforgivable: he handcuffed my arms so tight that the metal cut to the wrist bone. (The scar lasted ten years.) When we got out of the town lock-up the next morning, $400 was missing from Diaja's wallet. (A judge, examining my wrist a few months later, dropped the charges. OUR $400, of course, was gone forever that we were supposed to f*ckin share!!!)
  

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  by Fine Again on August 25th, 2010

• those are good reasons to hate the cops.

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  by Anonymous on October 28th, 2010

• to hate cops in general would be to generalize them. not all cops are the same so no there is not one good reason to hate cops. It's as bad as being racist because you're judging others before getting to know them and that's discrimination.

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  by sam sorce on November 13th, 2010

• it's not the same as being a racist. there isn't anything you can say about a race of people besides the color of their skin, anything else is a baseless stereotype. on the other hand, a police officer is an occupation, and you can say plenty about police in general.
  
  it is a generalization, but to say it's like racism is out of touch with reality. by your logic i can say generalizing about murderers is the same as racism. not all murderers are the same, after all. but as a rule of thumb, i can have a problem with murderers, don't you agree?

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  by Anonymous on November 13th, 2010

• there is plenty you can say about black people like they have a higher chance of certain diseases and plenty of things that can be proven scientifically...nevertheless all murders are not the same...i can murder the man who was trying to kill me in self-defense but i still murdered him thus making me a murderer...i can have almost nothing in commom with them but you would still class me with the others would you not?
  By the way I am enjoying this mind stimulating argument

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  by sam sorce on November 13th, 2010

• i generalize people. i would group you in with other murderers if you were a murderer.
  
  i know a murderer, i like him, he's a nice guy. if i knew any cops, i may well like them. that doesn't mean it's unreasonable for me to dislike cops or murderers, even if there are individual cops or murderers that i know and like. and it especially doesn't put it on a par with racism.

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  by Anonymous on November 14th, 2010

• i know a racist and i like him because he's irrational, clumsy, and quick-tempered. plus he can't make up his mind on anything. I'm hispanic and he's my good white friend. I also known black people who are racist and I don't like some of them while others are alright so I still think it's the same thing.

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  by sam sorce on November 14th, 2010

• see, you're still equating having a problem with cops to racism. if i had any doubts that this conversation would go nowhere, i don't have them anymore.
  
  i know a guy from cuba. he loves tomatoes. like, he's almost got a tomato fetish. it's crazy.

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  by Anonymous on November 14th, 2010

• no i'm equating hating cops to racism...you said it after all, "those are good reasons to hate cops"

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  by sam sorce on November 14th, 2010

• What a juvenile response!
  
  Um...there are PLENTY of populations who don't like/distrust the police. There are tons of studies about it. If anyone needs to "grow up" here (as you suggested by calling the question "juvenile"), it's somebody who doesn't realise there are certain groups (not just criminals) with which the police do NOT have any sort of benefit, and in fact, hinder their lifestyle.

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  by triddler on May 28th, 2011

• They've done their share of crime and gotten away with it themselves. Can't say there are no good ones out there, but they've murdered and beaten the homeless, etc. Why is justice for all, juvenile?

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  by fal10000 on December 28th, 2011

• Wow sorry for the 3 year late reply. I don't believe its a juvenile question, just a way to get people's opinion on what they think about the police. Obviously worked, as I have around 300 answers on people's opinions of the police.

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  by HayleyVenus07 on October 4th, 2012

• because they are not holy angels, and they expect us to be. Are you aware of the fact that many people get arrested although innocent, because the angels are very good at investigating? By that I mean lazy.

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  by whyconform on April 24th, 2013

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• Wow... not that I want to turn this into a military debate, but your ability to reside in your home in a free country with a fairly un-oppressive government exists solely because of those "dogs of the military". You badmouth the same people who died to give you the right to badmouth them. That's sad... but it's your right to do so. And you should thank a soldier for that right. Not that I would expect a "self-confessed, bleeding-heart liberal" to give a rats ass about rights, but there you go.

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  by BACzero on July 15th, 2010

• Well, forgive me for not thinking too highly of people who voluntarily kill complete strangers for money. I don't understand. We bleeding-heart liberals are all for rights. That's sort of what we're all about. The right to life, The right of a country to sovereignty without interference from another country, etc. Look, I hate terrorism as much as the next sane person. But you don't wage wars on an entire country because of some fringe extremist factions that happen to have set up shop in it. Or because you want their oil. The fact of the matter is that most soldiers don't do research on WHY their country is at war with another country before they run off to the nearest recruitment office. Argh. The more I think about it, the more it sickens me. Anyway, back to the question at hand. Good cops are awesome. Their prime directive is to keep everyone as safe as possible and causing as little damage in the process. Now that's a real hero.

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  by RefreshPerspective on July 16th, 2010

• soldiers are hired killers. i don't worship them, nor do i judge them for their vocation. freedom is free.

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  by Anonymous on November 14th, 2010

• Liberals? Right to Life? Bwahahahaha!!! Don't you mean the right to kill unborn, innocent children on whim? As opposed to killing armed gunmen who would happily set an IED off under your car?
  Liberals are very self-involved. They like to pretend they're out for the good of others, but their actions prove that it's all about them. They think they're smarter than anyone else, and deserve to be the ones to decide how we shall live our lives.

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  by LarryH54 on January 11th, 2011

• Is that so? What about the decidedly conservative ideals of not allowing gays to marry? And at least liberals care enough to want to work for health-care for everyone who needs it, while the popular conservative policy is every man woman and child for themself.

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  by RefreshPerspective on January 11th, 2011

• You do love spouting Liberal lies and pointing at your little straw men. Marriage is a religious institution which govt should butt out of anyway. And you are sadly misinformed as to the Conservative approach to healthcare. Here. Enlighten yourself:
  
  http://www.healthcarefreedomcoalition.org/agenda.asp

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  by LarryH54 on January 11th, 2011

• Um, I'm sorry Larry... but I'm gonna have to side with Refresh on the marriage thing. Marriage is not a religious institution. Marriage is a binding legal contract between two people, period. That's why you have to go to the court house and get a marriage license before you can get married, even if you're married in your church. That's why the money you pay for a marriage license goes to the state, not to your church. That's why a marriage changes your legal standing in the eyes of the Department of the Treasury. Your church may be allowed to perform the ceremony, but make no mistake about it, marriage, at least in the eyes of the law... is a contract, nothing more. Knowing that... and knowing that our government does not have the legal authority to prevent two people from entering into a contract with each other, it's actually strange to me that gay marriage is even an issue. No one on earth should be allowed to tell you who you can enter into a contract with.
  
  As for Refresh, I think our health care system needs overhauling but the universal health care trend is not the answer. Universal health care is bankrupting Canada and the England, but somehow we still think it's a good idea. Elderly people in both of those countries suffer because the government gets to decide when you're too old for certain medical procedures (like joint replacement surgeries and such). Obama wants to force a health care plan onto the entire country which will help only about 15% of the population. Doesn't make sense. The doctors and insurance companies are to blame for the over inflated medical prices we see in America. We are the fringe of the situation, unable to make much of a difference on our own. If something is to be done, it should be handled at the root of the problem, not the tip.

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  by BACzero on January 11th, 2011

• it used to be that free white people had a right to marry - church wedding only; only interracial marriage required licensing -- but now the governments expect us to assume we are all marrying interracially and apply for licenses

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  by purplecows on June 27th, 2011

• Really the military are the ones who protect us while you blab about them you dick

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  by dannymac215 on January 1st, 2013

• "No one on earth should be allowed to tell you who you can enter into a contract with."
  
  I think it's more the nature of the contract. Governments routinely prohibit, for example, contracts for the sale of food that is not fit for human consumption. I admit it's still hard to justify prohibiting marriage contracts that will not lead to inbred babies or abused underage spouses and so on. Gay marriage, polygamous marriage, animal marriage ...

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  by purplecows on January 1st, 2013

• The government doesn't prohibit the contract, they prohibit the sale. Big difference. Your private contract with a food distributor is not denied based on the gender of the distributor. In order for a distributor to legally obtain a license, they must meet certain guidelines. None of which are based on the distributor’s race, gender, religion or sexual orientation. You may find specific sales which are flagged or denied, but not the actual contract. If a distributor has multiple cases of selling substandard food, their license to distribute may be revoked, but still, such revocation is not based on gender. Ever. Imagine the government denying you the right to enter into a contract with a food distributor based solely on the fact that the distributer is female. That’s closer to the truth. A food distributer is required to send safe product because to do otherwise would harm the public. A gay couple getting married doesn’t harm the public. In fact, it has been shown that long-lasting, monogamous relationship are beneficial to society, and promiscuity is generally harmful to society… so why not allow legally binding contracts that promote monogamy among the gay community? If you remove religion from the debate, it simply makes good sense... plus our Constitution guarantees it. ;)

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  by BACzero on January 2nd, 2013

• Doesn't prohibit the contract? Well, in the sense there's no criminal penalty or signing such a contract (althought it mght be prosecuted as conspiracy), but a government court will not enforce such a contract

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  by purplecows on January 2nd, 2013

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• Bingo

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  by evandad on October 23rd, 2009

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• same as any other profession that go into for wrong reasons, dr's, teachers, lawyers, etc. , you always have bad ones......

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  by thatsJustme on December 18th, 2010

• But the difference is police have guns. And that is a big difference.

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  by Anonymous on December 18th, 2010

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• People are sick of cops arresting criminals? I am pretty sure that most people would prefer that cops continue to do this.

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  by OhLook - IamNoLongerAnonymous on July 15th, 2010

• lol, a 57 year old woman called the cops to report a suspicious person in her neighborhood. The cops show up and tazer the unarmed 57 year old woman repeatedly and spray her with pepper spray as she begs them to stop.
  
  doing their job arresting criminals? give me a break...
  
  the copy below is the news report about the uneddited video i posted above.
  

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  by gillaspy01 on July 15th, 2010

• this too
  

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  by gillaspy01 on July 15th, 2010

• You left out the part where the cops repeatedly directed her to get in the car, and she continually refused. If you resist arrest or detention, the cops are going to step up their force. That is not police brutality.
  
  If she wanted them to stop, she should have gotten in the car. Or are you suggesting that it is police brutality anytime a suspect says not to do something, and the cops do it anyway? For example, if I tell a cop not to arrest me, and he arrests me anyway, that is police brutality, right?

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  by OhLook - IamNoLongerAnonymous on July 16th, 2010

• they were summoned to the scene to check out her report of a suspicious person. Why were they harassing her at all? That isnt the point tho. Two big strong cops "Needed" to repeatedly tazer and pepper spray a 57! year old woman? Thats just rediculous excessive use of force.
  
  What about the other video? unarmed civilians getting gunned down by the cops for no good reason what so ever...

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  by gillaspy01 on July 16th, 2010

• “they were summoned to the scene to check out her report of a suspicious person. Why were they harassing her at all?”
  
  Again, since when is investigating harassment? The cops were called to a location to investigate a potential crime, they detained suspect, and she resisted. Do you have any evidence to suggest the cops lacked a reasonable suspicion to detain the woman?
  
  “Two big strong cops "Needed" to repeatedly tazer and pepper spray a 57! year old woman? Thats just rediculous excessive use of force.”
  
  Really? It would have been better to manhandle the woman, possibly break some bones, and endanger the safety of the officers, then safely tazer her?
  
  Of course, I am willing to bet that had they manhandled here (as you recommend), then you would be arguing the manhandling is “excessive force” as well.
  
  “What about the other video? unarmed civilians getting gunned down by the cops for no good reason what so ever...”
  
  Are you trying to suggest that this is a common occurrence?

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  by OhLook - IamNoLongerAnonymous on July 16th, 2010

• because the 57 year old was the one who called the cops to report a suspicious person. She shouldnt be a suspect! they are supposed to be helping to make sure she is safe!
  
  yes, manhandeling an elderly woman is better than tazering her repeatedly while she begs for them to stop. yes, i question if they had any buisness to be attempting to detain the woman at all. thankfully one got fired and the other quit before they could fire him.
  
  it happens a lot more lately than it used too. Im just saying that there is a good reason why people dont seem to like cops anymore. bunch of tazer happy doughnut eating fat asses with small man complexes trying to take their lack of sexual fullfillment out on the innocent public...

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  by gillaspy01 on July 16th, 2010

• “because the 57 year old was the one who called the cops to report a suspicious person. She shouldnt be a suspect! they are supposed to be helping to make sure she is safe!”
  
  That does not mean the cops did not have a reasonable suspicion to detain her. Again, do you have any evidence to suggest the cops did not have reasonable suspicion?
  
  “yes, manhandeling an elderly woman is better than tazering her repeatedly while she begs for them to stop.”
  
  That just goes to show your ignorance regarding these matters. Using physical force on a suspect is dangerous to the suspect and dangerous to the cops. A tazer is far safer for both parties, and usually far more affective.
  
  “yes, i question if they had any buisness to be attempting to detain the woman at all.”
  
  Other than your bigotry towards cops, why do you question this?
  
  “it happens a lot more lately than it used too.”
  
  If you are talking about tazing, then yes, it does happen a lot more now. The reason for that is most agencies only started using tazers in the last five years. But using a tazer is not police brutality.
  
  You are a bigot towards the very cops that keep you safe. And the reason for your hatred is because the cops are doing their job.
  
  Most people don’t hate cops. But of those who do, the primary reason why is because the cops are doing their job. Nobody likes getting tickets, or pulled over, or arrested. But the people who hate cops, hate cops because they engage in activities that could get them pulled over, cited, or arrested.

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  by OhLook - IamNoLongerAnonymous on July 16th, 2010

• "Using physical force on a suspect is dangerous to the suspect and dangerous to the cops" Youre being willfully ignorant if you believe that an unarmed 57 year old woman needed to be tazered, then tazered again once she was laying flat on the ground.
  
  There is a lot of evidence (ive showed you two examples of countless hundreds) for cops abuseing their authority. That is reason enough for people to detest police, and its got nothing to do with their own behavior.
  
  Your assumption that the only reason anyone dislikes police is because they themselves are commiting a crime is rediculous.
  
  Protect and serve, not bully and harass.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  by gillaspy01 on July 16th, 2010

• http://youtu.be/b-RpmUN9irY
  http://youtu.be/xcCmmaCqZhg
  http://youtu.be/AXzRczBk06M
  
  
  
  Won't let me embed them.

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  by QuartzKitty on May 28th, 2011

• She should have just have gotten in the car the first they asked, then she wouldn't have been Tassed.

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  by Jessiechan on June 4th, 2012

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• Sorry to be the bearer of reality, but cops are in the business of law enforcement, and J walking is against the law. Don't you hate it when people actually do there job?

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  by OhLook - IamNoLongerAnonymous on July 15th, 2010

• when did victimless "crimes" become constitutional?

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  by purplecows on April 24th, 2011

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• are they? really?

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  by purplecows on July 1st, 2011

• Hah. Cops are tools. I didn't mean it that way, but with some of them, it certainly seems to be true!

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  by LarryH54 on July 1st, 2011

• what laws would these be that are unjust? But I hate them too but for other reasons.

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  by whyconform on April 24th, 2013

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• Agreed. +6

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  by Phillis - Zacks little sister on October 5th, 2009

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• +6

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  by -Rohit- on October 20th, 2009

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• That's what I'm saying! Unfortunately, cops don't have any say in the matter. They DO in fact have quotas (good luck finding one who will admit that), and if those are not met, they are in danger of losing thier jobs. Tickets are designed to bring in revenue for local and state, and that's all. This is completely out of the police's hands. +6

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  by Phillis - Zacks little sister on October 5th, 2009

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• Nice!! +6

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  by Phillis - Zacks little sister on October 5th, 2009

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• +6

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  by -Rohit- on October 20th, 2009

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• +6

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  by -Rohit- on October 20th, 2009

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• Also the "good" cops cover up for the bad ones. When was the last time you heard of a cop arresting another cop?

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  by purplecows on January 2nd, 2013