You Must Ask Why

I have written about the terrible actions of Jack-Booted Thugs (JBTs) on this blog for over 10 years. From time to time, I will happen across someone in or near law enforcement and have a conversation. This will almost always result in hurt feelings and the like. Why?

Because I hold every adult accountable for their own actions. 

Police often get very prickly about this. The ones who don't get upset have always fallen into one of two categories: those who are out of law enforcement, and those who are looking to get out of law enforcement. In either event, the fact of the matter is that the system is broken, and these are the people that enforce the brokenness. 

Here are some common statements made, and my reply to each:

"Well, that officer might have been having a bad day."

Why do we have thousands of videos of bad days? It happens all the time. When do they have good days?

"Officers are getting fired for violating rights all the time!"

This, when there has been one or maybe two fired for multiple repeated complaints in that person's department in the past 5 years. 

"You must have had a bad experience."

Yes, I did. It was over 6 years after the time I started this category on this blog. And why is it always "a bad experience?" Does anyone have any good experiences???

"Well, call a crackhead the next time you need help."

This is the most asinine. A crackhead is more likely to help, because police have no duty to protect. 

Furthermore, here are some questions that remain unanswered:

• Why, even though there are thousands of videos of police abusing citizens, are there only a handful of videos where a supervisor stops the abuse of rights, and corrects the subordinates?
• If police abuse of civil rights is "rare" or "the exception," then why do we have thousands of videos of such incidents? 
• Why do we have dozens of channels on YouTube putting out multiple videos per week, with nearly zero overlap?
• If quotas are not a thing, why are we constantly being bombarded with news of departments around the nation getting caught enforcing them?
• If police are really trying to find the true perpetrator of crimes, why is it that over 20% of DNA exonerations have "confessions" of guilt? Police intimidation much?
• If you advise people to "not talk to police" (knowing full well that police don't even talk to police), why are you branded as "Anti-cop?" 
• Why are there no videos available of "good" cops arresting bad cops? 
• Why are there no videos of good cops stopping bad cops from violating people's rights?
• Why do 90% of the videos demonstrate officers having a power-trip?
• Why did none of the BLM vandals get arrested?
• Why did so many of the J6 protestors get arrested?
• Why does almost every cop / LEO get butthurt when you ask these questions?

Most importantly: WHY do YOU think your local LEO are not like that?

(Here's a hint - they most certainly ARE like that!)