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SoBro I was talking about the type of people who feel cops can do no wrong and should not be questioned, these type of people forget how human cops are. Add that human factor to the power of that badge and you get corruption.
Agreed. It is less about the individual cops and more about the entire system which is corrupt to the core, from the top down. It is the same system that allows a cop to beat someone down just because, and simply walk away, knowing he is "protected" by the system..and that's ultimately the problem.
His boss, the Seargent and his fellow officers "knew nothing" about what happened although it happened in front of them....it's truly disgusting. And this is what has been happening to average NYers for decades...sheer unabashed abuse by police officers..and they just laugh and walk away.
Any time someone labels ANY group as a whole, I know I'm dealing with a person who doesn't know how to think unemotionally. It's the same mindset of racists and homophobes, but somehow acceptable because it's cops.
Saying something about an entire race or sexual orientation is a lot different than saying something about an organization. Would you object to a claim that the KKK is a pack of bigots, or that the John Birch Society consists of reactionaries?
I know several upstanding NYPD cops. However, I also believe the organization is rife with corruption. Calling the NYPD corrupt is not the same thing as saying every NYPD cop within the organization is corrupt.
I find this case truly sickening, mostly because the cops probably looked at this 70 year old scruffy looking guy wearing a t-shirt and jeans, out at midnight on a corner in Jackson Heights, and thought they could do whatever they wanted to him -- because who could he possibly be? People with wealth/power/political connections do not usually hang around street corners in Jackson Heights at midnight looking scruffy and sweaty from moving furniture around all day.
The thing is -- that scruffy t-shirt wearing man is us, the regular guys. If the cop had known this particular guy was a respected judge, I am 100% sure the cop never would have come near him in even a threatening manner, much less go for the jugular.
This case more or less proved to me that this kind of ugly cop behavior is going on every day in one way or another. It's just that usually it's the regular guy getting beaten or bullied or taken advantage of, and not a judge, and consequently we never hear about it.
There are plenty of corrupt judges in prison and many more out there who have yet to be
caught, just throwing that out there...
non-sequitur.
There are plenty of corrupt politicians, clergymen, and people in general, so your point is?
Are implying the judge was corrupt, and deserved to be assaulted by the cop?
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