Exactly. This can be applied to other “vice” pursuits.

Arglebardgle: “God’s Own Drunk–

I think most of your questions only need one answer, police officers are union members.”

Then there’s also the fact that they are a “brotherhood”, which transcends any sort of legal unionization. You always protect your kin over strangers, right? That’s the dangerous mentality.

I think most of your questions only need one answer, police officers are union members.

Jim Bell He is expecting release in September 2009, per wiki. I predict a life sentence based on trumped up charges to be given sometime in December…

If I make a mistake at work that costs my company $5,000, I’m (rightly) fired. No “investigation” to see the circumstances surrounding my mistake and no chance to save my job. Cop makes a mistake that costs a life, gets paid leave while the incident is investigated, then gets cleared and put back on the job. Why can’t even the most gung-ho law & order type not realize that people trusted with leathal force and arresting power should be MORE accoutable than somebody like me in finance?

Because we’ve decided that officers have a license to kill. hence, no wrongdoing.

Death is a perfectly acceptable sentence for questioning the wisdom of our betters.

I love Big Brother.

I’m somewhat disturbed that events as brutally evil as these no longer rouse my emotions.

The officer who showed up during the vigil needs to be tarred, feathered, and then fired, what an idiot.

My father, who was in law enforcement for 27 years, had a better method of punishing police who knowingly hurt the public. Shave their head, tatoo “I WAS A PIG” to their forehead and throw them into general lock up.

These two posts are a good overview of why professional police are incompatible with a free society:

Part 1

Part 2

“Mr. Walker had hit the 36-year-old officer several times on the head and told him to get off the stoop, a police spokesman said.”

BULLSHIT! Anytime you see a statement where the officer was hit several times, and then told to do something, you know the cops are telling lies.

Mr. Browne said the second undercover officer then grabbed Mr. Walker from behind by the shoulders, but he shrugged him off.

BULLSHIT! We have all seen way to many videos of cops in action. When the second officer would have grabbed him it would have been a full force tackle, attempting to take him to the ground, and begin some real abuse.

It’s shocking.

“You deserve to be arrested if you’re rude to a police officer” and “Police are entitled to be anywhere, anytime, doing anything they want, including on your porch while wearing a disguise” seem to be majority sentiments in the US today. And all of the cringing, bowing, scraping serfs who think this way resent anyone who doesn’t; it’s like they say, “The cops broke my spirit long ago, and it’s a personal insult to me if Walker or Gates doesn’t have a broken spirit too.”

Funny how those darn civilians always hear something different than they’re supposed to, isn’t it?

Because statistics on arrests and convictions are obviously more important than the lives of innocent bystanders.

I’m sure you’d get to it shortly, but here is a story about how Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested by Cambridge MA police. Since I’m not a regular reader, apologies if you’ve already posted on the incident.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528584

My condolences to the family of Mr Walker. May they have the strength to see them through this tragedy.

sorry to curse on your blog Radley…

I am so fucking sick of that fucking response every time a cop fucks up. Why the fuck do they even bother with the investigation?

“Unarmed man shot for no apparent reason by traffic cop”

“We’d investigate, but we know the officer probably didn’t do anything wrong- no sense continuing this ‘internal investigation’ charade.”