But last May, police in New Haven, Conn., arrested me — because a parking attendant falsely claimed I had used a racial slur against him nearly a year earlier. [More]
With he said/she said, how was there even probable cause to arrest?
Name everyone involved. Starting with the racist POS parking lot careerist.
And sue.
[Via Michael G]
Don’t forget Back the Blue!
Remember kids, the police man is your friend.
Consider Madison’s thoughts on government that he expressed in Federalist N0. 51.
“It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices [checks and balances] should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/primary-sources/federalist-no-51
Now strike all references to “government” and replace with “police” or “police force.”
I think we can all agree that we’d rather not have a government, police, or a police force. But given human nature, we can all pretty much agree that would be a disaster.
So in the meantime, we have to hire human beings, many of them as flawed or more so than we are and pray they don’t f**k things up, meanwhile realizing that they can and will. Just check our current host’s “only ones” files.
If you don’t like your current police force, you have many options. Among them are: 1. become a cop and show us how it should be done. 2. Move. 3. Bitch about cops.
In the meanwhile, here’s a book on how it looks from the other side that you might find interesting, entertaining, and maybe just a bit educational.
https://www.amazon.in/Who-Am-Man-Behind-Badge/dp/1631837478/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
In the foreward to the above, the author writes:
“Think you know what a police officer does every day? You think Hollywood gets it right?
Unless you’ve been out there, you don’t know. Nothing you see on the big screen or on television in the safety of your home can prepare you for what we do every day.
Night after night, we deal with the worst society can throw at us, then we go home, sit with our loved ones and pretend we’re okay. But sometimes…we are not okay.
In Who I Am: The Man Behind the Badge, I’m going to describe all the gore, all the horrors and all the emotions I felt, not to gross you out but to let you know what I experienced.
If you find any of these stories disturbing or uncomfortable, then I have accomplished my goal-because I was equally disturbed and uncomfortable. And I live with these memories every day.”
Full disclosure: The author is my brother. He managed, like most cops, to survive and retire. But not all do. He’s functional and a good husband and father, yet he carries the wear and tear of his 24 year career with him every day. Like he says, he is “not okay.”