I haven’t
stepped into the whole police brutality thing, but after watching repeated
murders committed live on video where cops are doing the murdering, here is
where I am. I think being a policeman is
one of the hardest jobs on the planet. I sure as hell couldn’t do it, but if they
can’t handle it, then they need to change professions. Working in the circus shoveling animal shit
comes to mind. I hear people say they think that there are only a few bad
apples. I thought that too, but now I think the whole damn orchard is rotten. Yes,
there are some good policemen, not sure how many, but the problem is their
silence puts them in with the bad ones. So what happens is that all of them
seem bad. I get it that it is hard for them to say something against their
fellow officers, but if they haven’t got the balls to stand up for what’s
right, then they don’t need to be in that job.
I am all for
peaceful protest because this situation needs as much attention as we can bring. It is clearly time to address the racist brutality
that has plagued our police force and other positions of power. I believe the inherent problem is that the job
of a policeman attracts too many of the wrong people to it. Racist and bullies
find police work a good environment to commit these kinds of acts and offenses
and should be fixed from the inside where it lives.
I am
certainly not smart enough to know how to solve this problem, but I do have
some ideas. First of all, I think more
intense and thorough physiological testing should be done to weed out the wrong
people. I know that for smaller communities there is not a lot of testing for
hiring police. They don’t have the funds or manpower for such things, but I
think that a national data base should be set up so that police who have been
fired or were written up for bad behavior can’t get another job in a different
city or state. I believe once a bad cop,
always a bad cop.
I also think
it is unfair to send police into situations they are not trained to
handle. I believe professional mental
health care workers should be used in most domestic situations, not the police.
As a kid growing up, I always thought the police were the good guys, that has
changed for me. I still have the absolute
upmost respect for the law and damn little for cops.
Here is something I just can’t wrap my head around. I keep seeing surveys where President Dumbass has a high approval rating on the economy. Not only are we headed toward a major depression, and were even before the pandemic, but he is a bonehead who went bankrupt in every business he ever attempted. The man went bankrupt running a casino….A Freaking CASINO.
I am truly
tired of the media and too many people acting like Wall Street represents the
economy. It is main street that represents
what is really happening with the economy. 92% of all the stock is owned by 10% of
population. How is this an indicator of
how the average American pays the rent or puts food on the table?
Stay tuned for future adventures.
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