OT - blue lives murder

Why did you feel the need to post this random mess?

Nah, he had that one a long time ago

What do you have against the OT and Poli boards?

Found this video by prager University. It does an excellent job of explaing and showing what police officers go through and experience. One black activis took police training and said his eyes had been open to this.

YoutTube-Prager University

I will readily admit that Prager U. is a conservative organization. If you want to see some other eye opening and often funny video on YouTube type is Will Whitt-Prager University. he has some really good stuff.

Things are rarely as open and shut as way too many people like to portray.

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The police are victims of bad law that's not supported or respected by large segments of society.

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Which is not a good place to argue. You have to obey laws whether you agree with them or not. You do not change laws with lawlessness. You change it legislatively. That said, you should also understand that bad laws and good laws are in the eye of the beholder. What one person considers a bad law, another might consider a good law.

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When I was a child in the 50s and early 60s the police in most cities were generally respected.

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That, I would argue has more to do with education than anything. The left has overtaken our schools and now teach that the police are fascist and bad. Impressionable young people from elementary schools and up are being taught more about political activism than they are about Math, History, Geography,
spelling/English etc. As a result our young people are very much indoctrinated and not very well educated.

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The job of a cop is much more dangerous than it used to be. The drug war and the proliferation of semi automatic weapons increased the danger. Many black people have learned to despise cops with good reason. A lot of violent white people feel the same way. When cops get ambushed many people of every race don't have much sympathy.

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The reason people are not sympathetic is because of the indoctrination in the schools and the selective and biased reporting by the media. There is nto disparity of blacks being killed by police in our country. A higher percentage of crimes are committed by the black community, so more blacks are being arrested. Then, they are more likely to fight compliance. Now, you can blame this on culture or whatever you want....poverty, a lack of fathers in the family, the breakdown of the nuclear family...name the problem. They are all true. Instead the blame is being laid at the feet of police officers and not at the feet of the pervasive poverty, breakdown of the family and culture. Unwed pregnancy is another huge problem facing black families and is becoming a huge problem among white families as well. A breakdown of accountability, morals and other factors play into this.

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End the drug war because it's a war against a large segment of society.

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So, if we watch what is going on right now in our cities with rioting, looting and violence, it would appear as if those are being done by a large part of our society. Should we legalize those things, too?

I mean using the argument that things should be legalized because so many people do them is a very slippery slope.

But the laws that say it's illegal to pass out in a Wendy's drive-thru then beat the shite out of *two* cops when they try to peacefully take you in for dui, then steal one of the cop's weapons, then run off into highly populated area, and when cops pursue, to turn around and point the stolen weapon back at them, and then cops return force, and then people side with the cops, is that the same as the holocaust?

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The job of a cop is much more dangerous than it used to be. The drug war and the proliferation of semi automatic weapons increased the danger.

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We respectfully disagree.
- Prohibition and Gangster Era police

Post this crap on the political board.

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Post this crap on the political board.

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Typically I agree, but we do have OT threads about fishing, hunting, bar-b-q's, Murder Investigations and everything else. While there is a Political board specifically for politics there is also the O-T Board for fishing, etc.

However, I have no problem shutting this down as most people, including myself do not come here for political stuff but to escape it. And we are surrounded by politics everywhere these days. I can easily walk away from this discussion. I get drawn in because I am constantly amazed at the lack of knowledge people have about our political system and think the only way to handle things is to force others to bow to their will instead of peacefully.