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I'm nineteen and I believe it is complete and utter stupidity that we see so many young people rioting in cities like Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, Maryland and Oakland, California. It's one thing to riot against an oppressor though what I've seen is the looting and burning of civilian owned structures. It disgust me that people have no regard for the safety of there communities and instead want to destroy them. I also would like to point out the Ferguson Effect that has affected the law enforcement community greatly. Police officers are scared of causing the next riot and with the increase in people filming police officers they are becoming more and more afraid of enforcing the law. I understand that we have good cops and bad cops though the media and those that don't support law enforcement are sending a message that all police officers are bad especially with the rise of the group Black Lives Matter (BLM). I'm very concerned for this country's future and you should be too!
I'm nineteen and I believe it is complete and utter stupidity that we see so many young people rioting in cities like Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, Maryland and Oakland, California. It's one thing to riot against an oppressor though what I've seen is the looting and burning of civilian owned structures. It disgust me that people have no regard for the safety of there communities and instead want to destroy them. I also would like to point out the Ferguson Effect that has affected the law enforcement community greatly. Police officers are scared of causing the next riot and with the increase in people filming police officers they are becoming more and more afraid of enforcing the law. I understand that we have good cops and bad cops though the media and those that don't support law enforcement are sending a message that all police officers are bad especially with the rise of the group Black Lives Matter (BLM). I'm very concerned for this country's future and you should be too!
I guess you missed the fact that young black men are members of those communities you're so very concerned about, and that they're not very safe there when the police are in a belligerent mood, which, just for your edification, they were, and perhaps still are, in Ferguson, MO, going back a decade or so. If you were constantly being stopped and hassled on the street for no other reason than your age and your color, you might start thinking otherwise.
As for people filming police behaving badly, well, if they didn't behave badly, there wouldn't be anything to film would there? Police officers are trained in how to properly make arrests, how to diffuse situations, how to not react to taunts or insults. If individual officers can't follow procedures and can't keep their tempers, then they need to find another line of work. If their bad behavior results in criminal charges, then so be it. If their supervisors condone officers behaving badly, then they have to be held culpable, too.
Nobody said law enforcement was easy, but police officers knew that going in. If they can't stand the heat, they need to get out of the kitchen.
Oh, yeah, what disgusts and worries me is the poor grammar and lack of critical thinking displayed by many C-D posters.
I guess you missed the fact that young black men are members of those communities you're so very concerned about, and that they're not very safe there when the police are in a belligerent mood, which, just for your edification, they were, and perhaps still are, in Ferguson, MO, going back a decade or so. If you were constantly being stopped and hassled on the street for no other reason than your age and your color, you might start thinking otherwise.
As for people filming police behaving badly, well, if they didn't behave badly, there wouldn't be anything to film would there? Police officers are trained in how to properly make arrests, how to diffuse situations, how to not react to taunts or insults. If individual officers can't follow procedures and can't keep their tempers, then they need to find another line of work. If their bad behavior results in criminal charges, then so be it. If their supervisors condone officers behaving badly, then they have to be held culpable, too.
Nobody said law enforcement was easy, but police officers knew that going in. If they can't stand the heat, they need to get out of the kitchen.
Oh, yeah, what disgusts and worries me is the poor grammar and lack of critical thinking displayed by many C-D posters.
Black kids aren't safe around other black kids 10 times more than around the police.
I guess you missed the fact that young black men are members of those communities you're so very concerned about, and that they're not very safe there when the police are in a belligerent mood, which, just for your edification, they were, and perhaps still are, in Ferguson, MO, going back a decade or so. If you were constantly being stopped and hassled on the street for no other reason than your age and your color, you might start thinking otherwise.
Why are you painting such a broad brush? You know damn well not every black person is being cornered. It's specifically the ones that act like assclowns and get in trouble.
Meanwhile, completely ignore the fact that blacks kill each other far more often than any other race or profession could ever hope to.
Young people are VOTING their futures away. They are being brainwashed into supporting their own demise.
They are easy to manipulate, and not experienced enough to realize they are being used. Progressives show up on campus and convince students that their "fresh young ideas" are needed to run the country.
It's all nonsense, of course. The political parties are run by long established older people.
Today in USA Today, Glenn Reynolds promoted the idea of changing the voting age. I am old enough to remember when it was changed to 18, and thought it was a mistake then. The standard rhetoric is, "If you are old enough to die for your country, you are old enough to vote". But that is easily handled by allowing youthful voters with a military ID to vote.
At any rate, I think the voting age needs to be raised. In fact I am so conservative that I think a voting license should be required, and issued only after passing a test, like the US Citizenship test. Glenn Reynolds: After Yale, Mizzou, raise the voting age
They are easy to manipulate, and not experienced enough to realize they are being used. Progressives show up on campus and convince students that their "fresh young ideas" are needed to run the country.
It's all nonsense, of course. The political parties are run by long established older people.
Today in USA Today, Glenn Reynolds promoted the idea of changing the voting age. I am old enough to remember when it was changed to 18, and thought it was a mistake then. The standard rhetoric is, "If you are old enough to die for your country, you are old enough to vote". But that is easily handled by allowing youthful voters with a military ID to vote.
At any rate, I think the voting age needs to be raised. In fact I am so conservative that I think a voting license should be required, and issued only after passing a test, like the US Citizenship test. Glenn Reynolds: After Yale, Mizzou, raise the voting age
Agree 100%. It will never happen, but I agree it should.
My theory is that the 0.1% have gamed the system to their advantage so much so that young people today see their future slipping away.
And mine is that college students are passionate, under-developed emotionally, have a herd mentality, are easily influenced by their peers and will jump on any bandwagon that means they get out of attending their classes.
It's always been this way, it will always be this way. The only difference is the culture that has come about where we aren't EVER allowed to contradict them, tell them they're being stupid, or heaven forbid, hurt their widdle feelings.
I guess you missed the fact that young black men are members of those communities you're so very concerned about, and that they're not very safe there when the police are in a belligerent mood, which, just for your edification, they were, and perhaps still are, in Ferguson, MO, going back a decade or so. If you were constantly being stopped and hassled on the street for no other reason than your age and your color, you might start thinking otherwise.
As for people filming police behaving badly, well, if they didn't behave badly, there wouldn't be anything to film would there? Police officers are trained in how to properly make arrests, how to diffuse situations, how to not react to taunts or insults. If individual officers can't follow procedures and can't keep their tempers, then they need to find another line of work. If their bad behavior results in criminal charges, then so be it. If their supervisors condone officers behaving badly, then they have to be held culpable, too.
Nobody said law enforcement was easy, but police officers knew that going in. If they can't stand the heat, they need to get out of the kitchen.
Oh, yeah, what disgusts and worries me is the poor grammar and lack of critical thinking displayed by many C-D posters.
And your proof this is?
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