nakedemperor

I would not say there has been a recent rash of police beating our citizens. Only that of late it has made the national news. In Oakland and
Fresno we have seen reports about the indifference and malice with which police can treat the citizens they have been commissioned to protect. But it sure isn’t anything new. Violence and abuse under color of authority are common place in the good ol’
USA, as I expect they are around the globe. We all know the expression that “power corrupts” and when we give a person a badge and a gun and restrict community oversight of their actions, we can expect nothing less. It does however beg the question, what can we do to reel the police in, and make them accountable for the way they treat our citizens? Well, it’s possible that local jury’s could hold them accountable in court when cases actually make it to court. It’s shameful that Rodney King has become a household name. I’ve heard it said that LAPD has changed their motto from “to protect and serve” to “every man a King”. Bias you say? I think not, I have seen a uniformed LAPD officer questioning an undercover officer and in the course of a few minutes the uniformed officer saw fit to push the undercover officer’s face through a plate glass window. Now if a local cop can’t keep from being assaulted by his own department what chance does common citizen have of dealing with such officers. Have we forgotten Abner Louima? Abner was the Haitian immigrant who was sodomized with a plumber’s helper by his ‘captors’ in a NYC police station. Now if cops can feel confident, that it’s safe for them to take a detainee into the bathroom and live out their homoerotic fantasy’s,  then it seems obvious, that the problems are systemic and not isolated. And these problems are nation wide from California to
New York. But really, what is the appropriate punishment for a cop who sexually assaults a citizen with a stick up the poopshoot? I honestly can’t tell you. But what I will say is that much like our national government our local police departments are running amok, and we are the ones paying the price.

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