That's utter nonsense, and highly insulting to assume you can speak accurately for all "critics of the police" and tell them how they define a thumper."Community policing is not some "warm and fuzzy" approach to such serious problems as drug dealing, gangs, and predators that victimize law-abiding citizens. It is a smart, collaborative, big-picture approach to tackling crime and, equally as important, fear of crime."
I am glad to see the candidate address this issue of cops not being nice, or "thumpers" as they have been characterized on this list.
A thumper, according to critics of the police, are
cops who use too much force when arresting rapists and
drug dealers, or do not say "please" and "thank you"
enough when they are getting shot at.
A thumper, in my view, is a bully who takes advantage of his or her position in law enforcement to physically abuse someone else, whether that person is guilty of a minor crime, a major crime or completely innocent. A thumper is the cop who sees an innocent citizen standing someplace the cop doesn't want them -- though they have every legal right to be there -- and tells that citizen to "jump." When the citizen doesn't answer "how high" the thumper smashes their face into the hood of a nearby car, wrenches their arms behind their back and cuffs them while patting them down before deciding to "let them go" knowing full well the citizen was in the right. A thumper arrests someone who has committed a crime and goes willingly, but the thumper treats them as though they were resisting arrest, beating them up as an outlet for his or her anger or need to feel powerful. Thumpers are, for the most part, sick or bigotted individuals who shouldn't be in positions of authority.
Don't think that kind of stuff doesn't happen? I can only hope you receive a wake-up call -- of some sort.
Chris Johnson Fulton
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