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Wed May 23, 2012, 10:34 AM

PavePusher (15,374 posts)

134. It's basic math, and not at all "scary".

How many towns and cities in the U.S. with their own police department, even if only 2 or 3 officers? Then you have all the county Sheriff offices...

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148 replies	Author	Time	Post
So much hatred [View all]	jehop61	May 2012	OP
Hmm, wonder what your take is on this pic:	coalition_unwilling	May 2012	#1
My take is that the guy he watched break a stick over another cops head,	Rose Siding	May 2012	#24
I'll just bet you have a tidy little police-brutality-enabling	coalition_unwilling	May 2012	#28
The poster was responding to a specific incident which YOU brought up.	11 Bravo	May 2012	#35
He won that point.	UnrepentantLiberal	May 2012	#37
That's just splendid. Turning excessive force and police brutality	coalition_unwilling	May 2012	#48
You are on the right thread.	randome	May 2012	#50
Oh, no sports!	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	May 2012	#57
Well, I was in chess club in High School. Does that count? :) - n/t	coalition_unwilling	May 2012	#58
Ha!	zappaman	May 2012	#68
Omg! I know him from Occupy Austin	Dragonbreathp9d	May 2012	#91
You seem to be complaining about his use of facts...	Cave_Johnson	May 2012	#146
Looks like someone in the back of the crowd starting pushing, One cop started swinging.	adigal	May 2012	#39
Ah yes,	jehop61	May 2012	#96
I Was Watching It Live On Channel 9...	KharmaTrain	May 2012	#97
Fuck em. and their fucking families too.	CBGLuthier	May 2012	#99
Fuck whom? The protesters? The police? And why "their families too"?	coalition_unwilling	May 2012	#104
So the cops' hatred for protesters and free speech doesn't bring tears to your eyes?	Zalatix	May 2012	#2
You wouuld think that people who have "scraped bodies off the pavement,"	Lionessa	May 2012	#3
+1,000!!!	Zalatix	May 2012	#98
What? And get people to put down their broad brushes?	Brickbat	May 2012	#4
Oops.	Iggo	May 2012	#5
There's some good cops and there's some bad cops.	bigwillq	May 2012	#6
Thank you	jehop61	May 2012	#21
I've met good police officers as well	UnrepentantLiberal	May 2012	#38
I agree	SoutherDem	May 2012	#7
That's the "few bad apples" argument.	Bake	May 2012	#52
What is the alternative?	FrodosPet	May 2012	#83
Lefties, righties, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THEIR POLITICS ARE.	Bake	May 2012	#88
LEOs follow orders. Elect people who will change what those orders will be.	freshwest	May 2012	#147
I personally believe that Internal Affairs Divisions need to be abolished	GObamaGO	May 2012	#133
As long as the boards are well trained	FrodosPet	May 2012	#138
No, they're NOT "people like me."	Bake	May 2012	#8
Whatever the percentage, it still makes no sense to judge them all	treestar	May 2012	#11
How many police brutality stories must we endure?	Bake	May 2012	#12
It doesn't make the news when people do their job in ordinary circumstances	treestar	May 2012	#23
Then I repeat: the so-called "good ones" need to purge the "bad apples."	Bake	May 2012	#25
Then that applies to every profession there is	treestar	May 2012	#100
Doctors don't USUALLY go berserk and BEAT a homeless man TO DEATH.	Bake	May 2012	#109
that's not the issue	treestar	May 2012	#119
Yes, bad docs can and do kill people. Usually it's negligence, not malice.	Bake	May 2012	#120
Cops don't usually kill people, either.	randome	May 2012	#121
Cops may have saved lives on occasion	treestar	May 2012	#124
The whole bunch? I'm not condemning the whole bunch	Bake	May 2012	#125
Are you talking about some specific police force?	treestar	May 2012	#126
I've had traffic stops where the cop the was rude, overbearing, but thankfully not violent.	Bake	May 2012	#127
But you're going to need the cops after that	treestar	May 2012	#130
You're going to defend the cops, so fine.	Bake	May 2012	#137
Yep. It's the bad cops who spoil the reputations of the other	hifiguy	May 2012	#13
Or maybe you're being generous ... or optimistic.	Bake	May 2012	#14
How do you talk to them?	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	May 2012	#59
I say "yes sir" and "no sir"	Bake	May 2012	#67
Maybe that's part of the problem	derby378	May 2012	#89
I don't disagree, but courtesy goes a long way	Bake	May 2012	#90
ANYBODY can get a sir or ma'am from me	FrodosPet	May 2012	#139
I use the latter two all the time	derby378	May 2012	#140
By my book New York City has had exactly two good cops in the past two generations.	backscatter712	May 2012	#29
Even the good ones are complicit.	Bake	May 2012	#31
You don't see them arresting the criminal cops. n/t	backscatter712	May 2012	#33
Um, yeah. Sometimes you do.	randome	May 2012	#47
Thanks about Adrian Schoolcraft as this I did not know.	PufPuf23	May 2012	#85
+2	rug	May 2012	#145
right. When we hear story after story about how	dana_b	May 2012	#42
I've found most police officers to be reasonable, level-headed, and open-minded, but only after...	slackmaster	May 2012	#9
Funny, I've found them to assume (and act on) the worst possible assumptions.	Bake	May 2012	#16
Ha ha.....oh hahahahahaa......donuts	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	May 2012	#60
The donut crack was unfair, I admit it.	Bake	May 2012	#66
I wouldn't try.....	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	May 2012	#94
So I assume you adhere to the "bad apple" theory.	Bake	May 2012	#110
The problem is that during these protests they good ones do not stop the bad ones	Marrah_G	May 2012	#80
I'm not sure it's that simple.	randome	May 2012	#82
ANY supporter of the 1% who's of the 99%.............	socialist_n_TN	May 2012	#10
Just another hit-and-run poster.	Atman	May 2012	#15
At some point the police are going to have to make a choice	Marrah_G	May 2012	#17
My Coversation With Two Police	otohara	May 2012	#18
This post was hidden by jury decision.	DisgustipatedinCA	May 2012	#19
Yes those skulls are costing tax payers money to replace the broken batons.	L0oniX	May 2012	#20
I support cops.	pintobean	May 2012	#64
In that case	zappaman	May 2012	#69
I always thought you were	pintobean	May 2012	#73
To be fair...	zappaman	May 2012	#75
This message was self-deleted by its author	DisgustipatedinCA	May 2012	#77
I do?	pintobean	May 2012	#78
This message was self-deleted by its author	DisgustipatedinCA	May 2012	#79
No, it squats.	pintobean	May 2012	#81
This message was self-deleted by its author	DisgustipatedinCA	May 2012	#84
What you do in private	pintobean	May 2012	#86
You deserve a DUZY for that one...	zappaman	May 2012	#87
This message was self-deleted by its author	DisgustipatedinCA	May 2012	#112
Thank you John Edward	zappaman	May 2012	#113
No, really. Just look at Zappa's life, at his words. You're on the diametric opposite end of the	DisgustipatedinCA	May 2012	#114
This message was self-deleted by its author	DisgustipatedinCA	May 2012	#111
You have serious issues.	pintobean	May 2012	#128
This message was self-deleted by its author	DisgustipatedinCA	May 2012	#129
There are more than 581,000 police departments in this country.	randome	May 2012	#22
Are you sure your numbers are right?? That would mean each state has 10000 police departments???	adigal	May 2012	#44
Pulled quickly from Yahoo so I haven't double-checked.	randome	May 2012	#45
If that is right, that is scary. 10000 police departments per state? Wow. n/t	adigal	May 2012	#49
It's basic math, and not at all "scary".	PavePusher	May 2012	#134
10,000 departments per state?? Not officers. Departments. n/t	adigal	May 2012	#135
This message was self-deleted by its author	PavePusher	May 2012	#141
When the mission of cops transmogrifies into protecting the property of the 1%, we get Keystone Kops	WingDinger	May 2012	#26
Yes, so much hatred. Why do cops hate the people they are paid to protect so much?	sabrina 1	May 2012	#27
When Bloomberg is not overlord of the NYPD	Rex	May 2012	#32
A nice but extremely subjective post.	Rex	May 2012	#30
Principle IV	Zorra	May 2012	#34
Well, my husband was a NYC cop for 3 years before going to be	adigal	May 2012	#36
Uh, they very much DO hate protesters who are left of center and further.	HughBeaumont	May 2012	#40
Tea Party types don't congregate is as large a number as these protesters did.	randome	May 2012	#46
Police are just as susceptible to mob mentality as any other group.	haele	May 2012	#41
You're a lousy fiction writer	just1voice	May 2012	#43
Excellent response to a drive by, flame bait post.	GoneOffShore	May 2012	#51
+1,000,000,000 x 1,000,000,000 - n/t	coalition_unwilling	May 2012	#53
boofuckinghoo, sweetie.	cali	May 2012	#54
Reports of good cops are anecdotal evidence at this point. nt	Comrade_McKenzie	May 2012	#55
let us defund and see how many "heros" stick with it.	TheKentuckian	May 2012	#56
"let us defund"	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	May 2012	#62
Cops = teachers, gotcha.	Zalatix	May 2012	#101
They are both public employees	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	May 2012	#103
The right wing loves cops and hates teachers for a reason.	Zalatix	May 2012	#105
Actually, the right does not always love cops	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	May 2012	#106
Cops won't get chopped... who else can the Plutocrats call on for defense?	Zalatix	May 2012	#107
You can keep saying that all you want	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	May 2012	#108
Ok so who will the Plutocrats rely on for defense if they keep cutting the cops?	Zalatix	May 2012	#117
"Plutocrats" can hire their own security, they don't need government to arrange it for them	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	May 2012	#131
They may think they're safe, but they're not.	Zalatix	May 2012	#132
Congrats	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	May 2012	#136
The military? If things get bad enough.	white_wolf	May 2012	#123
We have too many cops. Not enough teachers.	Comrade Grumpy	May 2012	#115
They sure do and it works. Defunding the police would be orders of magnitude more successful	TheKentuckian	May 2012	#118
Cop hatred is a DU tradition. nt	Skip Intro	May 2012	#61
So long as citizen-beating is a cop tradition	Union Scribe	May 2012	#74
So much denial. n/t	Egalitarian Thug	May 2012	#63
Did you feel that way about the Egyptian police? The Syrian?	Puregonzo1188	May 2012	#65
The UN estimates that about 10,000 people have been killed in the fighting in Syria since March 2011	RZM	May 2012	#72
"have any of you ever thought..." oh, puh-lease!	stlsaxman	May 2012	#70
Police in the US are the muscle of the 1%	Great Caesars Ghost	May 2012	#71
lol	fascisthunter	May 2012	#76
Most cops suck- there are only a few good apples	Dragonbreathp9d	May 2012	#92
I hate all brutish bullies...	99Forever	May 2012	#93
Not a lot of thoughtful responses in this thread, so -->	daaron	May 2012	#95
I have thought about the people behind the badge.	raouldukelives	May 2012	#102
I saw some stuff on Youtube	heaven knows	May 2012	#116
I have a really good friend who is a cop so	TBF	May 2012	#122
There really are plenty of good cops!	Quantess	May 2012	#142
I'll stop hating.	Hatchling	May 2012	#143
I've been with and following the Occupy movement closely since its birth	Fire Walk With Me	May 2012	#144
Another reason to stop hating on the cops	Zalatix	May 2012	#148

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