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> punishment to fit the crime, this is more like a trailer-trash version of
> suicide bombers, or Edward G. Robinson's Gottedaemmerung in White Heat ("Top
> o' the world, Ma!"),

> > punishment to fit the crime, this is more like a trailer-trash version
of
> > suicide bombers, or Edward G. Robinson's Gottedaemmerung in White Heat
("Top
> > o' the world, Ma!"),

> <Chuckle> Edward G. Robinson? I'd love to see THAT particular director's
> cut, if you have it, you're sitting on cinema gold!   :)

> (I think you actually meant Jimmy Cagney here Steve)

> Regards, Rudy
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>All cops undergo psychiatric evaluations and intelligence tests before they
>get a badge. Without ever having read the studies of the results of those
>tests, when I was 13, I could of told you what kind of person usually
>becomes a cop. Very, very easy thing to do.

>For many of them, it doesn't have much to do with wanting to protect and
>serve. Do some research and you'll find out what type of person joins the
>police force.

>--
>David G Fisher

>> >The cops get off on this sport because they get off on ***.  Why
>else
>> >join the force?

>> To protect and serve.  I refuse to let the few bad apples color my view of
>> every cop in the country...

>> Eldred
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> like everything else in life GENERALIZING makes it easy to get one's
> point across.

> al i'm here to say is my son - an ENGLISH LIT major, graduated from
> college, was in the upper 2% of his NATIONAL academic rankings.. and
> joined the police force because he wants to help people~

> he's been on the force for going on 3 years.. has arrested many an
> UNDER age youth beind the wheel, (one that he chased down on foot) :D
> and i ask... would you prefer this drunken irresponsible be allowed to
> samsh into your wife's car on her way to market? or into a school bus?
> or only into a tree taking his/her own life? i think not-

> not evey cop wants to bash in a head..
> i know this wont stop generalizing, but i had to speak up on a
> misconstrued statement so close to 'home'.....

> a cop's dad
> bo bruce

> >All cops undergo psychiatric evaluations and intelligence tests before
they
> >get a badge. Without ever having read the studies of the results of those
> >tests, when I was 13, I could of told you what kind of person usually
> >becomes a cop. Very, very easy thing to do.

> >For many of them, it doesn't have much to do with wanting to protect and
> >serve. Do some research and you'll find out what type of person joins the
> >police force.

> >--
> >David G Fisher

> >> >The cops get off on this sport because they get off on ***.  Why
> >else
> >> >join the force?

> >> To protect and serve.  I refuse to let the few bad apples color my view
of
> >> every cop in the country...

> >> Eldred
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> Yes, of course Cagney.  Doh!  (I even looked it up before I sent it.)

> It really doesn't matter what the details of that particular chase are. We
> are really discussing the bigger issue of police chases, and in case you
> haven't watched the news in the past couple of years, it has something
that
> people are concerned about. People have gotten killed for nothing. In
> communities around the U.S., cops are being forbidden to chase cars except
> under strict circumstances, and sometimes under no circumstances at all.
> Why? Because of what some of us in this thread are talking about. Innocent
> people have gotten killed or mutilated when cops go crazy chasing someone
> who's often committed a non-*** crime. Stealing a car is a shitty
thing
> to do, you and I would love to kick their ass for doing so, but you don't
> kill innocent bystanders in order to retrieve a ***ing chunk of metal.
It's
> a stupid, neanderthal approach to the problem.

> And yes, the cops do get off on those chases.

> David G Fisher

> >   How do you know it was unnecessary ?  Can you prove that ?

> >   Say the guy had a gun and just popped off at some cops and/or public
> > before this clip started and the cops took chase ?  Say he just ran a
> > minivan full of kids into a wall before this clip started, and then the
> cops
> > took chase ?

> >   You have NO idea about the full story.  Neither do I, but then I'm not
> > jumping off on some tangent either.

> > > That's right. It's more important that the cops get back a hunk of
> rolling
> > > steel. If some innocent people (especially children---they haven't
been
> > > around very long, so they are of little value) get mangled or killed,
so
> > > what? That steel is definitely worth a few body bags.

> > > The cops get off on those completely unnecessary chases.

> > > David G Fisher

> > > >   Yep.  I always get a kick out of so many times on the net, someone
> > posts
> > > a
> > > > clip of incident x, and everyone jumps to criticizing, without
having
> > been
> > > > there, knowing the full story, etc.

> > > >   From an *edited* (usually for effect) tv clip, everyones an expert
> on
> > > how
> > > > things should have been handled, on whatever the clips subject is.

> > > > > It was actually a reported Stollen car. That is why the Cops were
> > trying
> > > > to
> > > > > pull him over

> > > > > Darf

> > > > > > He probably had a taillight out or something.  The cops think
it's
> > > > nothing
> > > > > > to risk killing innocent civilians if a "suspect" doesn't
> > immediately
> > > > > start
> > > > > > bowing and scraping and***ing their boots.