“Some cops deserve to be shot.” Thoughts on this declaration?

[Kingofkings1992]

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11 mo

100 percent of girls agree? Wow we got some female cop haters on here 😅

[nightdrot]

Strongly disagree. First, because the idea than anyone deserves to be shot implies a disrespect for human life that suggests that the person making the declaration has no business making judgments worthy of respect. To accept the premise is to open the gates of hell.

Beyond that, when I was no more than 5 years old, I can remember my mother telling my younger brother and me, "If you kids get thrown in jail you can expect to stay there because I won't be bailing you out. Because if you are in jail it means that you deserve to be. When a police officer tells you to do something you say, 'Yes, sir" and you do it!"

To be sure, beyond wondering how I would end up as the first second grader incarcerated on Alcatraz, speaking at just a personal level, I have no sympathy for this notion that someone is a delicate little snowflake who deserves to have his feelings given a higher regard than the rule of law. It is utterly alien to everything I was raised with.

The police have a risky job, their lives are on the line at every stop, and they have no way of knowing who you are or what you are doing. They deserve deference and if they go outside the bounds, you have redress for that in a court of law.

The current popular attitude toward law enforcement is an outgrowth of a sniveling, self-absorbed and self-pitying culture that too easily takes for granted the difficult task of maintaining a stable social order. "The policeman was mean to me!" Good grief.

Do they get unfairly treated? Absolutely. It is the sign of a self-satisfied and sanctimonious age that too easily takes for granted its safety and those who assure us.

In 1977, after nearly two decades of a culture that had taken to calling the police, "pigs" and that thought the criminal was a victim of society rather than a victimizer, Gallup took a poll. It showed that 72% of all women - and 92% of African-American women - of all classes and incomes and all the rest, did not feel safe walking in their neighborhoods at night.

Americans, as was said of the French kings, "Forget nothing and learn nothing." Suffice to say, we are about to repeat history.

[razelove]

Overwhelmingly I disagree. The only time anyone could ever agree is the vanishingly small times when police are acting extrajudicially and you are acting in self defense.

I've had that happen twice, but neither time was a use of deadly force or fear for my life, so it wouldn't have been justified anyway. Compare that to every other time that they are saving lives, and one of those times they just jumped me without identifying themselves because I had a gun on me, and that was the swiftest and safest method to incapacitate me.

I held no ill will there, and they messed up the paperwork so there wouldn't be charges. Police have a job to do. If you just keep quiet and let them do their job, things will turn out alright. You do your job of keeping your stuff secure and your camera running, it works out ok.

Do you think it would solve extrajudicial police action to assault them, or massively increase it?

[Justagirl_03]

Oh I definitely agree. Especially when it comes to cops in my country.

[KetoJames]

Just don't shoot a criminal, or cities will burn.

[BoopBoopBeep]

Some cops beat their wife and molest their kids. You don't get a pass for being a shitty human being just because you have a badge. If all cops were good we wouldn't have Internal Affairs, so yeah just like every other group of people, some of em could get what's coming to em. Just randomly though... that's cowardice and idiocy, at a minimum.

[LazerBean]

Many people deserve to be shot, and sometimes they happen to be a cop.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Agree. Some cops are just pure evil, not as just cops but human beings.

I'm not against police but bad police and who abuse people and bad people in general deserve to die.

[exitseven]

This quote came from who? Gotta be somebody that voted for biden.

[AviatorTom]

No one deserves to be shot.

[Dargil]

Shots of Bourbon or Irish Whisky.

[Anonymous]

It’s a careless and stupid “declaration”

[Opinion Owner]

No 100% of women did not agree

[Kingofkings1992]

Fair enough. You chose not to vote in the poll

[OddBeMe]

No one deserves it, honestly.

[Kingofkings1992]

Not even Trump? I thought you were an extreme libtard

[AngryCarl2]

What declaration? Who said that?

[Rangers]

It's a very immature and ignorant declaration