Police Cause More Crime Than They Prevent
by I really dislike the police.
We also need to remember to hate the job/position of power, not the human beings in these positions. Like with the president, it’s not the man in the chair it’s the chair itself. They deserve our respect, understanding, empathy, and love. Although they are guilty as sin, it is important not to act the same thing I’m criticizing. Most cops are almost Paramedics so they will definitely be useful in a peaceful and cooperative community of the future. And most of them, even the corrupt and violent ones (which is most of them good ol’ boys) still believe in a sense of decency and honor and doing the right thing (of course they don’t practice it, but they still think it’s a good idea and are sensible enough to engage in dialogue about important issues.
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Post CommentCaleb Nico
On May 17, 2008 at 10:15 am
I had to delete two comments for heavy curse word usage. I know I swear in this, but if you disagree with what I’m saying try to come up with some intelligent oberservations or criticisms. I only flashed my lights off to see the lines, it wasn’t like I shut them off completely. I wasn’t a part of the breaking and entering. I know that was a crime, but I was trying to show a parallel between what my friends did and what the cops did. They broke a chair, fire alarm, and spilled a beer. The cops broke a window and a door. When my friends were convicted (they deserved it) they were sued for 46,000 dollars to (listen to this) have the carpet cleaned, taken out, and put back in. Cleaned could have been taken out or have been the only one used.
I dislike police in American society and those who act like police. Those people create violence, dehumanization, and irrational human suffering. If you disagree please present valid arguements. The last two people to comment on this page kept calling me stupid and talked about how someday a cop will save my life one day. I believe that cops are good people, but are corrupted by their job. One could save my life one day and I’ll thank him or her for that. As I say in the last two paragraphs, cops do belive in decency in honor, but most of them don’t practice it.
This topic was supposed to be controversial, but it’s what I believe in. It’s supposed to spark intelligent debate, not childish name calling. I will delete anything I find childish, immature, or stupid, just a warning.
Ken Gack
On July 2, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I was disapointed in your article.
After reading your article on steroids, I was looking for a well written article that supported your point. This article was not well written, does not provide a convincing argument, and honestly you lost my interest after the second paragraph.
With regards to your personal experience, I work in a professional enviroment. You would expect the people I work with to act professionally. Some do, some don’t. I assume that all professions are that way–you have individuals who are unprofessional in every corner of society. Unfortunately the worse your experience, the more firmly it will stand out in your mind.
Acting respectful goes far beyond simply the words you choose to use. In my personal experience, I’ve been pulled over by law inforcement more times than I care to admit, dating back to when I was 15 years old. I have treated the officers with respect, and typically have gotten that in return.
Attacking someone’s character simply because of their chosen profession seems very closed minded to me.
Caleb Nico
On July 3, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Ken,
Thanks for reading my articles. I have some explanations for the two that you commented on. Thank you for the constructive criticism, I appreciate that a lot. Especially when someone can do it without just attacking my points and not providing any reason for why, you must be very intelligent to do that.
Both that you commented on were from my English class last year in college. I had a very unorthodox professor, I liked her a lot, but here’s how her assignment for this one worked. I was supposed to just let out all of my frustrations or feelings about a certain topic in society for half an hour. It was a difficult exercise because it lasted that long. We were supposed to say something bad about the topic we chose for that amount of time and then at the end try to write something good on the subject to job our brains. If you’ll notice I did try to do that at the end of the paper, I’m sorry if this was a particularly boring paper if you lost interest after the second paragraph, but it wasn’t like my paper on Steroids, that one was supposed to be a neat, finely tuned, research report, this paper had none of that, I spent less than an hour working on the whole thing, and I decided to publish it to Triond when I was finished when I got home that day. No fine tuning for this paper. It was supposed to be a prolonged freewriting session. If anyone doesn’t kn ow what that is, it’s just non-stop writing to make you a better writer. She had us try to use nothing but emotion to fuel the papers we wrote in that class because writing comes out better if you can put some feeling into it.
I realize that I was attacking the person’s character after going over it recently, I was wrong to do that, I should have been attacking the profession, not the person.
That’s cool that you’ve gotten respect back from Police Officers before, I never have. I tried to treat them with respect like I would anyone else. They yelled, laughed, and treated me like I was stupid the two times I’ve been pulled over. My town has one of the highest levels of Police Officers in America per person in the city and frankly I think they think they own the place. I should not have generalized all police officers, there are some good ones. I met a retired police officer one day and he seemed completely fine. Another day my dad told me that one of the police officers he knows was driving drunk, he was pulled over, he showed the other cop his badge, and the cop that pulled him over walked away, no questions asked.
To anyone else who reads this: This was beyond a rough draft, I did not put a lot of effort into it, I should have thought more of what I wrote.
Thanks for checking out my article,
Caleb Nico
Caleb Nico
On July 15, 2008 at 11:06 am
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865
WATCH IT. It’s long, but it supports the few good points I had in this article.
mystery61
On August 16, 2009 at 10:17 pm
I live in a very small town and the police here are on a power trip! It is digusting, I hate cops! I do not trust them. Just recently two of our officers were arrested themselves for doing coke, buying it and using it while on duty!