"We all bleed blue" is a popular slogan, meant to suggest there is no racial prejudice among the ranks, and not, as is popularly supposed, to recall the origins of the police in groups of well trained horseshoe crabs used to keep the peace in pre-industrial Europe.
"The unit's dehumanizing acronym stands for "Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods.""
I would like to suggest they worked out what it could stand for after thinking "scorpion sounds badass". I think a large part of the problem is the need cops have to feel badass.
The culture of American policing and those it attracts is the self-reinforcing cycle at the core of the problem.
Perhaps no more concisely articulated than by the exceptional police chief I worked with back in local gubmint days in this exchange I have oft recounted:
During a presentation on difficulties maintaining staffing levels in the department, we asked Chief if we could help with better pay or bennies:
"Nope", she replied, "our compensation package is more than competitive. The problem is that 99 percent of the people who want this job have no business being within a hundred miles of it."
It’s shocking and baffling to think any 5 people could gang up on one person and beat them to death while they call out for their mom. But 5 people supposedly responsible to “protect and serve?” How does this happen? Does this simply prove humans are violent, unpredictable and dangerous, and we are fortunate to have any semblance of a peaceful society at all? Or is there a need that some police officers have that is met by beating a defenseless man without regard to life or death? Are they simply so confident in their status as police that they feel impervious to laws or repercussions themselves? Or is it some sort of mob mentality, like group-think, where they feel anonymous, cloaked in the protection of being one of many on the police force? If Nichols posed any real threat to any of the offers at any time, and that’s debatable, he surely did not when he was minutes into his beating, unable to stand, and crying out for help. It’s heartbreaking and confounding. What will these officers offer as an explanation?
Steroid use by police officers should be outlawed and mandatory testing for them should be a requirement
"We all bleed blue" is a popular slogan, meant to suggest there is no racial prejudice among the ranks, and not, as is popularly supposed, to recall the origins of the police in groups of well trained horseshoe crabs used to keep the peace in pre-industrial Europe.
Bill McCarty (#billyboy) from the Birb,“One bad death squad shouldn’t ruin it for all the good death squads out there!”Nailed it!
"The unit's dehumanizing acronym stands for "Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods.""
I would like to suggest they worked out what it could stand for after thinking "scorpion sounds badass". I think a large part of the problem is the need cops have to feel badass.
The culture of American policing and those it attracts is the self-reinforcing cycle at the core of the problem.
Perhaps no more concisely articulated than by the exceptional police chief I worked with back in local gubmint days in this exchange I have oft recounted:
During a presentation on difficulties maintaining staffing levels in the department, we asked Chief if we could help with better pay or bennies:
"Nope", she replied, "our compensation package is more than competitive. The problem is that 99 percent of the people who want this job have no business being within a hundred miles of it."
Definitely also the foundation for Kyle Rittenhouse and the murderers of Aubrey in those slave patrols.
Minor aside: Does anyone know why Trye Nichols was pulled over in the first place? No one has ever explained that, in all the coverage that I read.
Does BUNNY unit stand for Be Ultra Nerdy Next Year or Buy Underwear Never, New York?
Look at the stickers on their lifted Ram diesel pickups. Punisher, NRA, usmc etc.Not a single "NPR at all.
When I was growing up in the Sixties, it became fashionable for the young folks to call the police pigs. I found this embarrassingly unfair.
I mean, pigs are rather intelligent animals with endearing smiles, plus they’re rather delicious.
DWB. Also known as reckless driving with no evidence at all besides the radio call in.
After that Texas cop did a barrel roll and tackled a teenage girl in a bikini a few years back, they should also test them for cocaine.
It’s shocking and baffling to think any 5 people could gang up on one person and beat them to death while they call out for their mom. But 5 people supposedly responsible to “protect and serve?” How does this happen? Does this simply prove humans are violent, unpredictable and dangerous, and we are fortunate to have any semblance of a peaceful society at all? Or is there a need that some police officers have that is met by beating a defenseless man without regard to life or death? Are they simply so confident in their status as police that they feel impervious to laws or repercussions themselves? Or is it some sort of mob mentality, like group-think, where they feel anonymous, cloaked in the protection of being one of many on the police force? If Nichols posed any real threat to any of the offers at any time, and that’s debatable, he surely did not when he was minutes into his beating, unable to stand, and crying out for help. It’s heartbreaking and confounding. What will these officers offer as an explanation?