It took over a year, but LAPD's finest got it right!

[HaloMagic]

I thank them for not shooting me every time I ride BART.

[yk9001]

I don't comment a whole lot anymore, but I will here...

My dad was a cop for 30 years and only had to fire his weapon a few times. It used to be that people respected cops and wanted to be cops when they grew up. Now, nobody likes cops and it's turned into a profession that's pretty damn easy to get into. It's just like the military and it's problems right now. If you lower the recruitment standards, then you're going to get a lower quality of people.

And remember, with all the bitching about cops going on, a couple bad apples doesn't mean the whole tree should be cut down. Not all cops are bad, and they have a very high risk job. Remember to thank a cop sometime for their service, just like you would thank someone in the military.

/endrant

I don't buy the 'couple of bad apples' theory.  At all.

 

Because if it was a couple of bad apples, then the advisory board would have come down on these idiots.  But they didn't.  They recommended full exoneration (which was overridden by the police commissioner).

 

Bad apples are weeded out.  These guys are never weeded out.  They are protected.

[Adam]

If it were a case of a few bad apples, these stories would surprise us

[mp170.6]

Can we stop peddling the "police have a high-risk job" nonsense?  There's lots of more dangerous professions ahead of being a cop. 

[Broad Street]

Maybe its just LA then, because we don't have tons of problems up in NorCal.

[HaloCory22]

Maybe its just LA then, because we don't have tons of problems up in NorCal.

Isn't there a BART officer shooting like once a week up there?

[Broad Street]

Can we stop peddling the "police have a high-risk job" nonsense? There's lots of more dangerous professions ahead of being a cop.

Just because there are jobs that may be more inherently dangerous doesn't change the fact that being a cop is a dangerous profession.

[mtangelsfan]

Maybe its just LA then, because we don't have tons of problems up in NorCal.

 

You mean where the cop shot a 13 year old with the plastic gun?

[mancini79]

Citizens get upset when a cop acts out of line, but get irate when higher authorities don't hold them accountable. This is the problem. In the good ole days when cops were respected, the bad apples were asked for their badges. Now it's become rotten to the core that bad apples are given reprieve.

[Broad Street]

You mean where the cop shot a 13 year old with the plastic gun?

Did you read the whole story or just the headline? He was playing with a toy gun that looked like an AK-47, WITHOUT AN ORANGE TIP mind you, and then when the cops told him to drop the weapon, he raises it and turns towards them? If you still think they're at fault you're batshit crazy.

[Blarg]

We all went over this and the consensus was until the kid pops off three rounds the cops should hold their fire.

[mp170.6]

Just because there are jobs that may be more inherently dangerous doesn't change the fact that being a cop is a dangerous profession.

 

I'm just tired of police and fire being praised as "heroes" when loggers and fisherman have a fatality rate 10 times higher for significantly less pay. 

[Blarg]

Loggers and fisherman are not working towards the public safety. They cut down trees in the rainforests and sweep entire sections of the ocean clean of fish. Not heroic.

[Lhalo]

Loggers and fisherman are not working towards the public safety. They cut down trees in the rainforests and sweep entire sections of the ocean clean of fish. Not heroic.

 

The average logger/fisherman works 10x harder than the average cop and I find it hilarious that you would blame them for overfishing and deforestation. As if the blue collar guy risking his safety to provide for his family has any say in how many fish should be taken from a section of water or how many trees should be cut down in a certain area of forest. Those people do what their bosses tell them and try not to get hurt and unless you don't eat fish and live in a bamboo house you probably shouldn't cast stones.

[mp170.6]

Loggers and fisherman are not working towards the public safety. They cut down trees in the rainforests and sweep entire sections of the ocean clean of fish. Not heroic.

 

Our homes and businesses would be pretty pathetic without finished lumber.  Definitely an under-appreciated trade. 

[arch stanton]

I think the problem stems from the perception many, many people have that an alarming percentage of police officers do not place public safety at the top of their priority list. It's also puzzling to me that there aren't more non-lethal methods employed by the guardians of public safety.

[mtangelsfan]

For me it isn't that I think a majority of cops are bad because I don't.  It is I do believe a majority of cops will cover for the cops that are bad and that if it were possible many of their bad acts would be swept under the rug and kept their forever.

[arch stanton]

Ergo, public safety falls down the priority list.

[mancini79]

There are bad people that are bad cops. But a good person that protects a bad cop also makes them a bad cop. Officers take an oath to protect the community first and not one another.

[yk9001]

Loggers and fisherman are not working towards the public safety. They cut down trees in the rainforests and sweep entire sections of the ocean clean of fish. Not heroic.

 

Obviously not a big fan of Filet O Fish fridays at Mickey D's.

 

Those men who catch the fish (as well as the fry guy at mcdonalds, as well as the one who glops on the doup of tar-tar sauce on the fish patty) are heroes.

[mtangelsfan]

http://news.msn.com/...fter-harassment

 

This story is one of the many reasons the police are much less popular than they used to be. This isn't just one bad apple.

 

[Blarg]

Our homes and businesses would be pretty pathetic without finished lumber.  Definitely an under-appreciated trade. 

 

I understand completely, my Grandfather was a logger and blinded by a falling tree that nearly killed him. But his job was in no way heroic, it was just a job that some pretty hard assed men did.

[Blarg]

Obviously not a big fan of Filet O Fish fridays at Mickey D's.

 

Those men who catch the fish (as well as the fry guy at mcdonalds, as well as the one who glops on the doup of tar-tar sauce on the fish patty) are heroes.

 

$10 dollar an hour jobs, for sure.

[mp170.6]

I understand completely, my Grandfather was a logger and blinded by a falling tree that nearly killed him. But his job was in no way heroic, it was just a job that some pretty hard assed men did.

 

That's awful...I guess some wood struck him in the eye?

[mp170.6]

I just dislike the term "hero" being applied to routine work. 

 

We all make choices to earn a living, and some jobs are more dangerous than others.  That shouldn't be the defining criteria for a hero.