angrymnk wrote:
gbaji wrote:
angrymnk wrote:
You clearly saw cops in movies only. You may have heard something somewhere about broken window theory, but cops do not have to do ****; selective enforcement and all that.They can certainly ignore it if they want to.
Yes. They can. But not all the time, else there would be no reason to pay them, right?
Sure. You go to the cop and tell him he has to enforce the law or else you won't pay him. After all, you pay his salary! See where it gets you. If you are lucky, you will get an odd look that you ( not you specifically, you know.. other people ) give to retarded adults.
Um... I was talking about the cops actual boss. You know, the police department? What do you suppose might happen to a beat cop who never responds to a call, never makes arrests, never patrols, never pulls anyone over, never issues any tickets, etc? Assuming crime didn't actually drop to zero, and this is the result of the cop actively choosing to just avoid any confrontation with anyone who might be committing a crime, I'm guessing that cop isn't going to keep his job for long.
You can't actually be this stupid. The cops are paid to patrol and to respond to calls. They are expected to deal with the crazy guy yelling obscenities at random people walking by, or the troublemaker kid who shoplifted some old lady's cat, or the guy who's selling loose cigarettes in front of someone's business and wont leave. They're the ones who are paid to deal with those situations. Insisting that they should have just ignored the guy isn't a legitimate argument. Argue that they should have handled it differently, or used a different take down technique, or whatever. But saying that they could have just walked on by and left him alone ignores the entire purpose of the police officer.
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If by "miserable" you mean being shot to death, then that didn't happen because of jaywalking
Why, pray, did it happen then?
Unless jaywalking normally involves leaning into the window of a cop car, punching the officer in the car repeatedly, and then attempting to grab his gun from him when he drew it to defend himself, maybe it's not jaywalking? And yeah. That's also your answer. That's what he did. Actually, that's not all he did. After having been shot inside the car, Brown retreated. The officer got out of the car and ordered him to surrender. Instead of doing so, he turned around, put his head down and charged the officer.
That's why he was shot to death. Did you really think he was just jaywalking and a cop drove up and shot him? Seriously? Way to conveniently ignore all of the stuff that happened between the jaywalking and the shooting.
Edited, Dec 5th 2014 5:07pm by gbaji