Anno Domini
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What does police corruption have to do with big government? You think conservatives and "small" government would've made any difference here?
NYPD kicking people out their homes who did no crimes... WTF?!?! Daily News/Gawker Expose'
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What does police corruption have to do with big government? You think conservatives and "small" government would've made any difference here?
PikaDaDon
Thunderbolt Them Suckers
So you admit government is the problem?
Anno Domini
All Star
Yes but that has nothing to do with the size of it. And it's not an inherent problem. You can get rid of corruption and still keep a government theoretically. Also unless you to live in an anarchy there's no feesible way to remove government from the equation completely.
PikaDaDon
Thunderbolt Them Suckers
The NYPD is one of the largest police departments in the world. You don't think shrinking the police force (which is part of the local government) would reduce occurrences of misconduct and brutality? Here in NYC the NYPD has a disturbing pervasive presence. You can't walk 5 blocks without seeing a uniform officer or surveillance cameras operated by law enforcement.
As for size, well, it is very difficult to efficiently control and manage a large entity (i.e.: apartment building, a corporation, government, cruise ship). The behemoth size of modern government will open itself to rampant corruption on all levels. NYPD officers operate with unparalleled authority and routinely violate people's rights everyday, and they're able to get away. They're rarely punished or reprimanded for misconduct since their COs encourage it. This unchecked, unmitigated authority that the NYPD wields will lead to more police shootings of unarmed persons, more civil forfeitures, more women mysteriously die in prison cells, more women being sexually assaulted by law enforcement, more private prisons, more black men getting draconian-like sentences, more people disappearing for weeks in 'black sites', more grandmas getting choked out at family BBQs, more pregnant women getting WWE body slammed, etc.
One of the greatest cons in human history is convincing people that government is a necessity. And it saddens me that this ideology is deeply ingrained into people's consciousness. So many of our problems stem from government. Yet, counter intuitively, many people support an expanding government (some even want outright socialism). It makes no sense.
Bugatti Biceps
Supreme Hacker
I wouldn't mind this if
a) they made it a criminal proceeding instead of this civil shyt in order to deny due process.
b) if they applied it to cacs as much as they did black people.
a) they made it a criminal proceeding instead of this civil shyt in order to deny due process.
b) if they applied it to cacs as much as they did black people.
Damn this is the first time I'm hearing about this. Wow that's crazy!
"“I’m protecting the kid who wants to go to school and shouldn’t have to walk past the drug dealer’s door every time. I’m protecting that kid’s grandmother,” Robert Messner, who heads the NYPD unit that issues the abatements, told Ryley. “I’m not as concerned about the drug dealer. If the guy ends up in a homeless shelter, yes, I’m sorry he ended up in a homeless shelter. But if that’s what it takes so that a whole generation of kids can grow up and whose parents can’t afford to send them to fancy schools, if that’s what it takes, I’m okay with it.”
how stupid do he think we are again?
how stupid do he think we are again?