Regardless of what any pro police person says.
Police abuse power.
This is a very simple fact of life. I dont like it...tim connoly doesnt
like it...and for some godforsaken reason, luther krueger is paid to (or
chooses) to legitimatize it.
How about some names?
Amadou Diallo
Malice Green
A name i cant remember from South Minneapolis last week (30+ bullets?)
Countless others...
Need some more examples? How about driving 80 miles per hour through
traffic and busy streets to catch an offender in a chase...Why are police
held unaccountable for endangering the safety of residents, at times as
much or more than individuals suspected of crime? This issue goes much
further than the police just parking where average citizens are not
allowed. This is about the abuse of power, and I am glad someone else
brought it up.
The fact is, in the eyes of police officers, people are seen as "potential
offenders". They choose to refer to themselves as peace officers to
persuade the common folk, aka the stupid idiots who see no other recourse
but to put up with it, into not having a problem with their actions.
This message comes from someone who has observed police injustice in
several different ways. While I do not affiliate myself with the
rentaprotesters who constantly assault police aggression of people, i
believe such a cause has a place, because there arent too many people doing
it. Ive listened to an officer say to me "I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT".
These things do not go in any job description in any place in this society.
Especially not that of our boys in blue. YET, as a society, we put up with
this abuse.
Luther, while you may argue "I welcome any suggestions as to how we can end
our department's systemic parking abuse".
The question is, what the hell is anyone on the force going to do about it?
Im tired of watching police forces all over the country use their badges as
an excuse for "being the law" rather than enforcing it, which IS what they
get paid to do. Its very simple.
If police officers feel they are "damned if they do or dont" maybe they
need to find a different line of work, and i guarantee you...then they will
be expected to follow the same rules of everyone else.
Robb Clarksen
Still searching for a police force that conducts itself ethically.
SE minneapolis
