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Re:Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They S... by stareatgoats on Thursday February 01, 2018 @08:05AM (#16281560)
Not sure about any niche audience here (haven't hung around that long), but that last paragraph got all my red flags up as well. Writers like this need a body cam of their own. Oh wait, that's right, there is one already - called the internet...

Which may prove that proof of rotten behavior is not enough to solve the problem when the root cause is confusion as to what is appropriate behavior in the first place.

Re:Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They S... by Clubber on Thursday February 01, 2018 @08:35AM (#16281715)
But all of those things in the last paragraph happened, and I believe all of them were outside of Baltimore.

Cigarettes was NYC, shot in the back was SC I believe. I don't remember where the person was shot in front of his daughter. I think that was the school cafeteria worker who was shot in his car. None of the police were convicted except the SC one, and the whole incident was caught on video.

Re:Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They S... by andrepd on Thursday February 01, 2018 @07:41AM (#16281429)
You seem outraged, but is anything they said wrong?
Re:Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They S... by acali on Thursday February 01, 2018 @08:02AM (#16281545)
In the last paragraph:

> It is not just Baltimore cops. It is cops. They will shoot you in the face in front of your infant daughter. They will choke you to sleep for selling cigarettes. They will shoot you in the back for walking away.

It appears his main point is to say because these Baltimore cops have been accused, all cops are guilty.

Re:Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They S... by duck on Thursday February 01, 2018 @07:47AM (#16281467)
Not the OP, but I would say that is implying that _all_ cops could do this. I don't think that is the case. As with anything, you have a small group that thinks it is above the law and acts that way.
Re:Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They S... by lsaferite on Thursday February 01, 2018 @09:01AM (#16281861)
The unfortunate reality is that the other LEOs that don't do something about the bad LEOs make themselves just as culpable. Worse, the LEOs that try to do something get punished by their fellow LEOs (even the 'good' ones) and their union. With that situation being the case, a blanket statement about LEOs being bad is not totally off base.