Originally posted by midnight Target
Steve, before I say this .... who on this board is your best buddy? Me of course!
Now doesn't this strike you as just a little hypocritical?
On the one hand you are quick to condemn the allies for terror bombing during the war. You feel that the perpetrators should be treated the same based on the fact that it is the same crime. No extenuating circumstances, like "They had it coming".
On the other hand we have a 16 yr old kid, handcuffed and slammed and slugged. But he "had it coming". You might want to rethink this one sir.
Yeah yeah I know. I suppose you have a point in there somewhere. But this is my heart talking remember...
Problem is I know alot of cops, and I have been together with some on patrol on a couple of occations (if you are working inside the legal system in Sweden, the cops let you ride along in the police cars if you want) and the amount of toejam these guys take from every direction is bloody amazing. EVERYONE will throw toejam on a cop it seems, because everyone knows that a cop is (in almost all cases) a good decent guy/girl, who will do his/her best to follow the law. It's like some people think insulting cops is fair game or something. When I was riding with those cops, I saw guys spit at them, I saw guys trying to knee them in the croutch when in handcuffs, I heard them threat the cops and their families, you name it. All that stuff didnt even go on report because the cops knows it's futile (something I dont like with the Swedish legal system is the crime and punishment -part).
These same cops were out an hour later picking up the remnants of some family who bought it in a head on collision with a truck (I stayed well clear of that carwreck though, frankly I think I would have passed out or something if I had walked over there)
Bottom line is this, the amount of toejam these guys get from every direction is insane, despite that they still keep doing the best damn job I have ever seen. In my book, that earns them a mile of slack if they should lose their temper one day. Personally I could never be a cop, first day on the job I would probably shoot someone
I will always do my best to look the other way if a cop oversteps his boundaries, and I know alot of prosecutors and judges who feel the same way. But sometimes it is impossible for various reasons, and in those occations, (most often in the blinding media light) the cop will be hit by the full force of the law.
