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I wonder if as a society we will ever come to move the line in which a police officer is considered to have been assaulted. A few recent news articles really got me thinking just how silly and absurd at the legal diversity at which a law enforcement officer is permitted (eg never punished) to “protect himself” when they are under the impression they have a threat against them.

The most glaring example of which and you can find these videos all over youtube as well as I, is the trade mark officer who blocks in a car with his curser, then proceeds to get out to go gang busters on the dude. But the dude instead decides that he’s going to leave again. Now, seeing that the car is making a move in his sometimes general direction at a relative low rate of speed as often due to being blocked in, or at a dead stop, the officer immediately finds himself “threatened for his life”, and rather than making two steps to the left and getting out of the way of the 3mph moving car, jumps on the hood. rides it like a pony while unloading a fucking clip into the drivers face.

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What about in a controlled jail environment while being ordered to remove her shoes, a bad ass and studly, (most likely a ninja or UFC street fighter) in the form of a 15 yr old 100 pound girl kicks her shoe off in a “fling” type manner, striking the 6’-2” 220lb pig in the shin. Thank god for his training without that he could not have protected himself from this violent assault! Relying on his years of intense training and experience of a recent shooting where he was acquitted for shooting and killing a man in 02, and shooting another in 06…. The skillful front kick to her stomach opened her up for the heavy right hook he threw catching her lethal ninja skills off guard enough to allow him to grab her by the hair and slam her face into a concrete wall. Tough but not out of it, her master would be disappointed as her hair wasn’t cut short enough allowing the cop to grab upon it again, and throw her to the ground where she continued to resist arrest! Two more over head rights.. BAM! BAM! to the back of the head made sure she’d go peacefully. Which she did, and the officer not lost to civility helped her to her feet carefully not touching any of her feminine body parts (as that may be misinterpreted) but instead just takes hold with two fists full of hair lifting her up from the ground.

It’s a shame that officer wasn’t as fortunate as his friends in Louisiana, where after the flooding they came across a 65 yr old school teacher, and rather than respecting their authority and submitting to their pressing questioning and detainment he had the audacity to look them in the eye. Well, good thing those veteran cops didn’t stand for his resisting their arrest. To think even after 14 punches to the back of the head, throwing him to the ground, stomping and kicking him while handcuffed, he could still fight back threatening their lives at 65!. Wow, good thing they got that criminal off the street. Not that he was ever charged with anything.. but I’m sure he was a criminal waiting to happen, just like the associated press reporter who had the audacity to even witness justice.



To me, evolving this brutal and unregulated culture of our so called public police force needs some serious revamping. And I do know that only 10% of the cops are responsible for 90% of “alleged” beating and shootings. The problem is, that these are the same 10% that rarely get kicked off the force, and even more rare prosecuted for their actions. In the cases noted above, there was no legal repercussions to any of their actions. The case with the girl, he is charged though like the new Orleans incident, he’ll probably be acquitted.

The biggest change that needs to happen, is that cops must be held to the same standards as the rest of us in what is construed “reasonable force” for self defense. That brutal beating of that girl because of a shoe…. If that response would be justified for me in a bar, then its justified for him in uniform. And that alone should be the standard. If you have a legal permit to carry a gun, and someone is driving toward you and you interpret that action as a threat to your life then I too should be able to empty a 13 round clip into their face at point blank range and walk away without blemish after 6 weeks of paid leave. If a cop has more freedom to defend themselves than a regular citizen, then what silent regulation is there to protect innocent civilians from their assault and batteries? Lets face it, its very unlikely that someday cameras will be everywhere, and its safe to assume that very few incidents make it on camera. Lets not even mention how many states do not allow you the right to defend yourself under any circumstances regardless of the threat…..unless you’re a cop.

Next, a database available to the public like the federal sex offender database must be made to identify, track and publish the reports, investigations and resolution of all police use of force claims. Despite the insistence (and successful litigation) of the police unions, use of force data is not a matter of private personal files and therefore protected by employment privacy law. They are the records of public servants interacting with innocent civilians who until convicted by a jury of their peers, retain the presumption of innocence regardless of the evidence against them.

This will also help with a single bad cop getting fired from one department and simply moving to another department to pick up a new badge and new gun with an acquitted stamp on his jacket. Further, internal police investigations need a federal directive to be completed within 90 days (as opposed to several years while the “heat” dies down) with each ruling reviewed and approved by a publicly elected magistrate and not that of an internal, secret police review committee.

Rules regarding use of force should be standardized on the federal level, made available for public review and comment and require a special oversight committee in congress to revise, modify or alter those rules. There is no justification that the people most interested in keeping the rules vague, lenient, and corrupt are the only people who are tasked to create, maintain and oversee those very rules.

The reality is we are not living in dangerous times. Federal crime statics from the department of justice report that current violent crime levels are at an all time low not seen since the mid 70’s. Although one could argue that since incidents of police brutality have gone up it’s had a positive effect in crime overall. I will disagree. Id wager since the advent of the video camera, cell phone and dash cam, incidents of police brutality have, maybe, might possibly stayed the same.

I can understand cops have a tough job, and probably 95% of them are good men (even if their loyalty system is fucked) Just to stand on the side of the highway hoping some dumbass doesn’t sideswipe them is enough to get a merit badge in my opinion. The reality is, I’m ashamed to actually be afraid when I see cops. I don’t know how it will turn out as Ive no idea what comes up on their screen when Im pulled over, or how they interpret it. The shield on their doors states clearly to serve and protect, though in the backs of our minds we know that if we step wrong intentionally or otherwise we can be in for a world of hurt. There are those would say, “if you’ve done nothing wrong you’ve got nothing to worry about” and that’s a great ideology and I totally agree.

Though another great ideology is “innocent until proven guilty”