Infected Mushroom wrote:NeoOasis wrote:
Dunno if emptying a clip into a car is a "mistake." Or shooting a kid with a toy gun... or shooting down a man running away from you. Or more recently pulling a gun on a guy picking up trash in front of his house? They are called mistakes only because society lets them get away with it. Personally I like to think of it as cold blooded murder. If it was literally anyone else, they'd be all in prison. Just because the absence of them means chaos doesn't mean I have to deal with their issues now. They should strive for perfection, and aggressively weed out the corrupt cops... not defend them. The media is only serving to highlight these issues, not creating them.
For all their swearing of upholding law and order, the justice system's application of both is as inconsistent as my bowel movements after a night of binging Taco Bell. That needs to be fixed.
I think we should tolerate a greater measure of mistakes because the USA is a very very dangerous nation to police with all these millions of guns in civilian hands. The police are risking their lives every single day on a scale much greater than in other nations.
For people who uphold the law and are meant to represent it? Fuck no. And the USA is not a very very dangerous nation by any stretch of imagination. Violent crime has been going down consistently over the last few decades, and even if the US was as dangerous as you make it out doesn't mean I should be willing to let Barney Fife get away with fucking murder. I risk my life driving to work everyday, but I don't get a damn medal... nor do loggers, farmers, electricians, doctors, teachers, CPS workers, 7-11 Clerks.
I will hold those who uphold the law to the fullest extent of the law.
EDIT: Also brandishing your gun at a guy cleaning up his property is NOT a mistake. Nor is breaking into a guy's home, and murdering him in cold blood. These are NOT mistakes. Those two cases are as much a mistake as me eating ice cream for breakfast. I know what I did, and I did it of my own will.