Wolveswin wrote:DreamTeam09 wrote:Wolveswin wrote:Thanks for proving my point. Carry on, you two faced hypocrite who enjoys the safety and civility they provide day and night while you bitch and complain how they do it — while using your false narrative and wrongful acquisition to stand on your straw man pulpit hoping someone will actually think what you say is factual or right. Which it isn’t.
The police are an institution, and a whole institution can end up corrupt even if a small minority of ppl are the corrupt ones in said institution...
A capful of bleach or a gallon of bleach, either way the water is now compromised. A corrupt Sargent/Chief is going to have great influence throughout his precent. I'm sure you yourself have seen plenty of police coverups, wrongdoings, even crimes that cops have committed where the police themselves stood beside their fellow man because cops stick together.
I totally disagree with you that it's a small minority of bad cops, it's probably closer to the other end of the spectrum that only a minority of cops are the "good guys" especially when it comes to enforcing themselves.
The term thin blue line that the police coin themselves proves they see it as us against them
I see you are good at consuming what the media feeds you — I hope you enjoyed the hook, line and sinker.
You do understand the majority of police agencies are small. In fact their are almost 18,000 across the US, not including federal agencies which makes that number jump.
Every profession has its level of corruption amongst a small cast of evil outliers. You watch too many movies and other misguided representations, that do in fact portray the very small minority of the profession as a whole. I get it though, watching a agenda driven corruption movie about accountants just doesn’t sell tickets or play to a base or tug the heart strings of the very very few who think such a molehill is really a mountain of corrupt accountants in evel accounting firms.
Let me be clear again, since I am sure you won’t go back and read my previous posts on this subject. The police need to be better.
No one is naive enough not to understand cops — like every profession — have bad eggs in the bunch. That is why more funding. More training. Better hiring and retention practices to find and secure top end employees. More oversight (internal and 3rd party) is needed. As with every publicly funded entity, it should be scrutinized for its output within the communities it serves. Just be better — but that is a two way street.
Citizens need to be better. Interactions with authority, all types of agencies in all communities needs to be more respectful, and in turn a higher level of professionalism and respect should be rewarded back to each citizen. As cops come better at what they do, so should the citizens they police and govern.
Here is some quick one hitters for you:
There are about 18,000 state and local police agencies in the US. These generally fall into the following categories: state police, county police, county sheriffs, municipal police, and special district police.
Over 1 million people work as public safety officers in the United States. There are 906,037 full-time law enforcement employees and 94,275 part-time employees.
On average, the United States spends $340 per person per year for public policing, for a total of $193 billion in spending in 2017. Police spending accounts for 9.2% of all local government spending.
Local police departments spend 68% of all government funds allocated for policing. They receive funding from a variety of revenue streams, including local public funds, federal grants, fines and fees, forfeitures, and private donations.
There are 137 police oversight entities for city and county police departments, covering 124 jurisdictions. Some jurisdictions have more than one oversight body. This means 1% of local police departments are subject to community oversight.
