I don't see an end to the George Floyd fallout. Derek Chauvin, (who took a knee), Tou Thao, Thomas Lane, and Alexander Kueng are now ex-cops and have been charged by the persecuting attorney. Given the results of the toxicology screen, I'm betting they all get a walk. What won't happen is what the BLM, NBP, BAJI, COC, MBL, NAACP, etc. et al. actually want, which is a public drawing and quartering for Derek Chauvin, and a public flogging followed by a hanging for the other three.
Now the various MENSA rejects and fatheads are demanding that select city police departments be defunded, and remade in a kinder, more sensitive department.
Clue bat: This isn't going to produce the desired result.
Keep reading for an opinionated, politically incorrect and insensitive rant.
I wouldn't make a good policeman. My disposition just doesn't match the job description. That doesn't mean I don't have a few good suggestions that might improve community relations between the police and the alphabet soup of color that commit crimes of various degrees of violence. Here we go:
Stop shooting dogs. Dogs are nice, and yet the first thing a cop wants to do is shoot someone's dog. If a cop shoots a dog, there better be some significant puncture wounds on that cop, or he's getting early retirement. The same goes for cats and other pets.
No more 'no knock' warrants. If the cops have an arrest warrant, put hands on the criminal when he's outside the house. If they have a search warrant, they can wait until someone answers the door, then they can display the warrant and conduct themselves in a non-threatening manner. The days of kicking in the door at 3:00 AM are over.
You'll take an ass-whippin' before you pull that pistol. Or Taser, or baton, or pepper spray, or blackjack, or whatever. If a cop needs to pull his gun, the bad guy had better be armed and have a gun in his hand, and be behaving badly. Otherwise the gun stays where in belongs - the holster.
Have patience with the mentally ill. The mentally ill are the most vulnerable segment of the population. Cops are supposed to be trained to handle the mentally ill, and many are not. Get the training, get some practice, and get some patience. If a mentally ill person fails to obey your command with sufficient alacrity and enthusiasm, don't reach for your Taser. There's every chance in the world your would-be criminal doesn't understand what's going on. Patience!
That's four. There's undoubtedly more that I haven't mentioned.
As for the police, ask them for a wish list then see about filling it. In particular, I'd make sure that all officers get group therapy twice a week and visit with a qualified psychologist in a private session once a week. I'd also make sure that the city provided the cops with enough ammunition so that they could all stay in practice, and clean workout gymnasiums to help them stay in shape.
The police deal with the worst element of society several times a day, and they see the after effects of violent crime on a regular basis. That kind of thing is going to have an adverse effect on anyone. From time to time, they need a break, and I'd sure see that they get it.
I've only interacted with the Columbus Police Department a few times, and they do pretty well. They could probably do better in some ways. In particular, I wish they'd enforce the local noise ordinance - which they don't. I also wish that they'd publish their arrests and the results on a website.
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Good ideas, if you ask me.
Constable Filthie here, Jack. Turning in my badge and my gun, taking early retirement. Let somebody else do it.
- shoot the damn dog. A lot of our misunderstood social experiments actually train their dogs to attack cops and strangers. Your average chithouse German Shepherd can bite down with 700 PSI force on some very sharp teeth. If he does that on a hand or a foot you’re crippled for life. Something like a Rottie can easily do double that. Civvies with aggressive dawgs need to do something about them.
- no knock warrants are the fault of the bleeding hearts in the judiciary. Our laws are now so pozzed and slanted in favour of the perps, that to put anyone in jail, you need to literally catch them in the act, red handed. I knew kids that were caught with large sums of cash and stocks of dope and were obviously selling and trafficking... but because no one could catch them in the act they only got possession.
- your pistol should be loose in the holster, cocked and locked. All these noggered saints of the BLM movement are thugs. Most know how to fight, they’re big and they’re so strong that a friggin taser won’t put them down. Some have soaked up an entire mag of bullets and they keep coming. Cops have to be able to defend themselves.
- the mentally ill. Yeah sure... but hell’s bells... look at what you’re asking these guys to do. They are there to safeguard the public, not protect the tard.
With those four rules, you’ve just made their job far more difficult and far more dangerous. Add to that, we now try them in the media rather than a courtroom. Look - sorry, but no... four racist cops did not all snap at once, and decide to murder an obscure black man for the hell of it. While being recorded on cameras. Now the shitlibs are saying the toxicology reports were faked by a racist coroner! At what point to we act like adults?
The take down was hard. Fenytyl Floyd was a very big boy with a rap sheet. He swallowed a lethal dose of drugs to keep from being caught with it. It stopped his heart within 7 minutes. Cops like choke holds because they work and they’re non-lethal. (Unless you happen to swallow a week’s worth of drugs in one go).
This isn’t about police brutality, it’s about Danegeld for noggers and photo ops for shitlib virtue signalling and that’s it. I think all the cops should quit.
Bravo!
Ed: Who are you Bravo!ing - Me, Glen, or CW?
Glen: I never said that being a policeman was an easy job.
Check the SWAT team raid in Berwyn Heights, Maryland. SWAT kicks the door in, sees a dog and shoots. The dog runs away. SWAT corners the dog, shoots and kills it. Then they find another dog, this time in a kennel. Guess what they do? Shoot and kill it. They lay violent hands on the occupants, pin them to the floor with a rifle held inches from their head and start screaming contradictory orders at them.
Then SWAT discovers that they're raiding the Mayor's house, and that there are no violations of the law here. The whole thing was a mistake, start to finish.
So no. No more shooting of dogs, no more no-knock warrants. These activities are far too easy to abuse, and are abused on a regular basis.
Nonsense.
If that raid went down the way you say it did (and given the way these things are handled by the media, I highly doubt it)... this is not a policy or procedural problem, it’s a people problem. If you are strapping guns on morons and giving them badges... no rule changes will help.
If you tie their hands so that they can’t do their jobs they’ll either get killed or they’ll quit. Not only will your restrictions make their jobs harder, it will make the criminal’s lives easier.
But whadda I know?
Glen:
The Berwyn Heights raid is infamous. Yes, it's one instance, but there are others. It illustrates the standard operating procedure the Prince George's County Sheriff's Office followed on a daily basis. The end result was a civil suit which was quietly settled in favor of the plaintiff for an undisclosed sum, and a new law passed in the State of Maryland governing SWAT usage - essentially, they must now report all activities after the fact.
I wouldn't make law on a single instance, but I'm convinced that the no-knock warrant is being abused.
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