To Protect and Serve – Serve Up Revenue

(noon. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

Newsflash: Cop acts like douchebag, and uses the standard charge of “not scraping enough to the man” to wrongly jail citizen.

I am of more than one mind about the incident. Had a cop come to my home when someone saw people trying to jam in the door, I would probably thank him for responding so fast and say, “Wow, had this been a break in, I am so glad you would have been here!” But of course, as a waitress and big 3 sales negotiator, (not to mention wife) I am well trained in the subtleties of diffusing any situation.

However, when cops go asshat, and try and swing their dicks just because it grates their egos to not be feared and obeyed instantly, I think the professor played it perfectly maintaining his rights within the law. His only mistake was stepping outside, wherein the bogus charge of “Public” disorderliness could be made. It could not have been made had he stayed inside his threshold.

While profiling happens, and happens a shitload in white communities, this problem is bigger than racism.

Its siege mentality, the paramilitary training and choosing of officers that would have been culled from the force in my youth as “loose cannons” with “bad attitudes.”

As M_A can attest, the first thing they teach you is that YOU have to be in control of situation, and that every stop or call is potentially your death.

Gone are the days of neighborhood cops, ones that live by you, eat with you, whose kids go to school with your kids. Unnecessary force would make them societal pariahs. Gone are the days when responsible young men and women joined to protect their families and neighbors, and help be “peace keeper.”

It is not only the demographic of large communities that changed this.

It changed when “arrest quotas” were used to make the police department a money-making business for communities. Officers who made quota got rank and more money, those who did not were written up. It worsened with all the Bruckheimer neo-con, anything the cops do to get the bad guys is ok brainwashing. Hell, that started with Dirty Harry… and you cannot help but add in Reagans absurd war on drugs, that put thousands of non-violent pot smokers behind bars to support Law Enforcement’s sister industry, the Prison System.

But I digress.

You can choose almost any societal model today, and find its failure lies essentially in the making that system “For-profit” of private business. Read: Control for and by the rich, to amass wealth of the citizenry.

Sure the cop was a douche, a racist and deserves to be stripped of his badge. But these days, that is the gene pool from which the police are chosen. I know more than one ex-cop, who left because they could not stomach the type of men they had to work with. Its all revenue, man. They say the attitude is “Take all prisoners, take no excuses!” They are expected to arrest, no matter what. Show no humanity. No wonder all they get is ego impaired power trippers on staff.

Money is the root of all evil.

Really, it is.

Revenue as priority has tainted and ruined every fucking thing in our system, from who gets elected, to how they vote, to health care to traffic stops.

As in yesterday’s open, I pointed out to Aristeides how little I trust this system, and the fact they patented the vaccine before the outbreak, and that regular flu kills more regularly than H1N1 has… and NOT amazingly, the politicos in the pharmas pocket are now trying to force the population into taking a not well-tested vaccine, that should it go wrong, has protection against any legal recourse or monetary compensation.

Its all about the Big Business man.

The traders at the top.

TRUST

NO

ONE!

We can jail the pig (but we won’t) and we can have the discussion. But NOTHING will change as long as Revenue Rules.