One More Cop Story

"I will shoot you in the face, and i will go to sleep tonight."

Fukin cop is lucky he didn't stop to check out a bad guy.

Looks like garden-variety 'roid rage. There ought to be a law.

This is why Ohio can't have nice things! meeping retards from Canton...

"Canton Public Safety Director Thomas Ream explains that Harless has been pulled off the streets while the incidents are being investigated. Part of the Internal Affairs Investigation is whether Harless' partner should have spoken out following the first incident, explains Ream."

Thank you Internet.

Cops are just human.

Meh. Guns are for meep. I carry an F16 fighter jet and I'm not afraid to use it.

Easy way to ensure polite cops- take away their guns and tasers etc. And make sure that they are intelligent enough to handle the power they have.

British cops don't seem to get this sort of bad publicity nearly as often as US ones do, and they don't routinely carry guns.

@dragonstaff

You know what DS? There's a good point--actually a couple--I'm taking from your point--probably not the one(s) you intended.

Like the point of disarming the police; also, let's disarm the military too. This would demonstrate the sincerity of those who believe that guns are the problem, not the assholes shooting them into schools. Additionally, it wouldn't take anything remotely like a constitutional convention to do it--the government is empowered to possess weapons, but it's not like disarming law enforcement and the military would be a violation of the right of the people to keep and bear arms. /satire

More seriously however, is the proposition that the police enjoy no particular powers or privileges what-so-ever over civilians. Let the sole criterion that distinguishes a police office from a civilian is that the police officer performs his functions professionally. If he speeds to catch a speeder, he is subject to the same judicial scrutiny as anyone else; if he initiates force of violence, then he better be able to convince a jury that his actions were excusable. On the other hand, allow civilians full power of arrest--subject of course to convincing a jury that any arrest and/or detention so executed was performed according to recognized standards of law as judged by a jury.

Before you all blast off like a bunch of retards, just keep in mind that this just a thought, and not one I'd expect to just "work" if it could suddenly be enacted in the next ten minutes. It would require a monster shift of paradigm, including reconsidering what meep we should really be calling illegal. The point of the proposition is to discover the answer to the question of why the police should get a pass on behaviors that are unambiguously illegal civilian behaviors.

Seriously. Irregardless of the brutality or the org-chart level of the drug-lord that is apprehended from the operation, if a police officer is complicit in the sale of crack to a 6-year-old, why should he get a pass just because he belongs to the narcotics division and is participating in a bust? Why shouldn't the mother of a drive-by victim not be able to personally lay down the meeping law on some BATF agent who set up the straw-man purchase of the weapon used to kill her child? Why should she not be able to see the DEA agent--responsible for providing the meth that was sold to a 6-year-old for the cash used in the straw-man purchase--in an orange jumpsuit waiting for his arraignment date? Why should these assholes be allowed to pile 900 speciously related charges on their suspect--so that bail becomes so expensive that a plea to crime not committed is preferable to sitting in the can while his kids turn to prostitution for lunch money--while enjoying the "professional courtesy" of immunity from the same when their own behavior is patently criminal if not (technically, due to their status) illegal?

You see DS, the point I got from you is that British Cops, routinely performing their functions unarmed, are IMMEDIATELY accountable to every nearby law-abiding civilian, hence has a greater respect for the limits of the authority that those civilians granted to him, as well as greater respect for those civilians.

@LOki

You got my point pretty well. If red-neck cop didn't have that Magnum on his hip, he would have to perform his duties in a much more cirmeepspect manner. He would have to be polite to his victims, instead of using the fear of his weapon and what he might do with it (without, as you say, much in the way of legal retribution if he does something that isn't really kosher).

My favorite part is the typo in the first 3 seconds of the video.

"we are not an anit-cop organization"