imortal wrote:
ATG wrote:
One may lose his emotion and get a pass.
When there are two officers are beating the bastard it becomes de facto policy.
...so you say. If I accept your argument that the beatings are 'de facto policy,' shouldn't the ones to be held accountable be the police administrators? If you start kicking out the policy makers, you start to actully change the policy.
It becomes policy when the police deny the public access to information until well after a crime by police has been committed, at which time the police are routinely exonerated.
Such as
this.Or
this.At the point when case after case starts with a crime, has an ugly interlude of a police smackdown or hail of bullets, and ends with the officers being cleared we can observe a pattern.
But, I believe nobody will have the last laugh. When the preordained bankruptsy of california happens the many, many state workers will have to have their most generous pensions renegotiated.
The state cannot sustain a system wherein some bastard works for 20 years and then gets 80-90% of his salary
for the rest of his life. When these
entitlements have to be cut, there will be chaos and anarchy. Somebody a week from retirement finds out he gets little or no pension because the state is broke will be mad as hell. They will then join the growing ranks of the formerly middle class who live their lives in a fit of near riot.
What happens when your unemployement benefits expire and you can't get a job and you lose your home and your car because there is little to no work
( discounting peon jobs paying poverty wages that do not sustain a family like retail clerk or fastfood ffs )? The police still get their pensions.
What happens when the state can no longer function as an economy because the government has incited so much financial terror that
nobody is spending any real money./rant.