YES! The police and legal system have
an increasingly difficult job to do and it takes a strong,
dedicated
individual
to take
on the responsibility of representing our citizens and upholding
the law. I have nothing but respect and support for all the
good they do and the mission they are on.. I have a number
of friends in law enforcement and get to hear the positive
and negative opinions they have amongst themselves.
NO! I do not feel that having obtained
whatever position they're in should make them exempt from the
same laws they're supposed
to be enforcing and they should be allowed to lie to, physiclly
abuse and manipulate people without (usually) having to suffer
the same consequences as the general public they're supposed
to be representing.
Every day bigger crimes are being committed
against SOME of the accused by law enforcement & "the
system"
than the crimes these people are accused of in the first place,
but it's OK and largely ignored if it's supposedly
in "the
name
of
the law". Many of these people (prosecutors, judges, etc.)
are exempt from ever being held accountable even if it's proven
that they malicuosly misused their power, and you cannot (by
law) seek damages in civil court from them for the damage
they inflicted on you & your life after trying to to bolster
their "personl conviction records" at your expense.
OUR POLICE & LEGAL SYSTEM NEED
TO BE POLICED!
I'm tired of reading about trigger
happy police gunning someone down and having the facts "glazed
over" to always suggest they were justified. I'm tired of having
every single cop who's ever pulled me over enforce his ability
to say & do whatever he pleases, while I must bow to him or
have him escalate the situation into him having to shoot me
for failing to comply to his whims. There are too many abuses
to even list right now. Too many cops are
in
the
business for the wrong reasons but the
"brotherhood"
of law enforcement frowns on officers speaking up
against fellow officers. The sad fact is that there are many
officers
of the
law who
watch
too much T.V. and
/ or were picked on as a child before getting their badge &
gun,
and
they're
now
enforcing
their
own version
of "justice" whether or not it conforms to the law.
If you are abused by a badge heavy, power
drunk cop you'd better pray you have a LOT more reputable witnesses
than there are cops on the scene AND video tape, because even
the good ones will lie to protect their brother officers when
pressured.
Unless you happen to be a mayor or some other form of high
rankng official your word doesn't mean squat, and they are
not required to take a polygraph test to verify a citizens
complaint, as they would have you do.
I believe that monthly (or even quarterly)
performance reviews under polygraph should be standard practice
throughout our law enforcement system (as well as dash mounted
video in all cars) and ANY time a citizen claims a cop is
lying there should be immediate
polygraph testing
of
both parties.
Police & law enforcement should enter their positions knowing
that they would be required to take lie detector tests at random
times and that it was a standard, mandatory part of accepting
the power bequeathed upon them with their job. If they're afraid
of being responsible for their actions then they probably don't
belong in the position.
Prosecutors, judges, beat cops and ALL people involved in our
legal system should not get "special protection" by
a system some are abusing. If a prosecutor intentionally files
charges
against an individual KNOWING that the person is innocent of
the charges, but they can use circumstantial evidence and the
testimony of
4 lying cops and no civilians to make it look (to a jury) like
it MIGHT have happened, is WRONG in my interpretation of "right
&
wrong".
To me this is an abuse of their position and they're assulting
me. If this ruins my life and I go broke and lose everything
before it's disproven in court, I have NO legal recourse against
this action because these individuals are "protected & exempt
from procsecution" and
I can't even seek civil damages from them for their blatantly
assulting
me. Sure, you can try to sue the City, County, State or whoever
they work for, but I'm talking about personal accountability
by people who knowingly, with a clear head, (not drunk, drugged
or any other excuse) use their authority to knowingly
comit a greater crime against you than you're accused of.
In my opinion these people all should live with
the same fear of prosecution AND liability for their actions
that everyone else does.
MORE TO COME
