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Police kill many innocent: check out the wrongful death awards - quite a few. You have NO right to call me paranoid - you have no state issued license that certifies you are qualified and competent to diagnose abnormal mental conditions from chatboard postings.
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You claimed, thx, that the police usually kill innocent people:
In contexts where two types of outcomes are possible (e.g. the victim was innocent or the victim was guilty) most people would interpret the word “usually” to mean more than 50% of the time.Quote:
Police continue to kill people (usually innocent).
But now you’re backing down. Now you claim the police kill many innocent people.
The word “many” usually refers to absolute numbers rather than a percentage. Even 2% could be “many”. Of course when it comes to innocent people being killed, even one is too many.Quote:
Police kill many innocent:
And then you back down further in the same sentence and “many” turns into “quite a few,”
No assessment is attempted on your part to ascertain whether these few are accidental, deliberate or intentional. Nevertheless, you take the non-statistic to be evidence ofQuote:
…check out the wrongful death awards - quite a few.
Yeah…right. You’re not paranoid…you’re just a fear monger and an intellectual sloth.Quote:
…an ever increasing despotism.
You have NO right to tell me I have no right to call you paranoid – you have no state issued license that certifies you are qualified and competent to offer legal advice and practice law, nor do have the legal authority to practice jurisprudence and rule on an individual’s civil rights in chatroom postings.Quote:
You have NO right to call me paranoid - you have no state issued license that certifies you are qualified and competent to diagnose abnormal mental conditions from chatboard postings.
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Hey THX,Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
For a 50% contingency + expenses, I'll take Trish to court for ya & prove that you have more than 3 toes. Just stay away from the cutlery till after the appeals. :lol:
Cops virtually do whatever they want. When an obscene police brutality incident occurs, and you have law enforcement investigating law enforcement; what do you think will happen? Well, from what I have seen, they usually protect their own... Arm yourself with cameras.
Now there’s an utterly ambiguous claim. In most instances a sentence like that is understood to be universally quantified. For example, the claim, “Life requires energy” (whether true or not) is understood to mean “All life requires energy.” Are you claiming then that all cops virtually do whatever they want? Each and every one? I thought not.Quote:
Cops virtually do whatever they want.
Now how about the word, “virtually”? What the fuck does that mean? I have to hand it to you, by inserting that one two-bit word into your claim, you rendered the meaning so ambiguous it’s virtually :) impossible to falsify. So okay, I’ll agree: cops virtually do whatever they want. On the other hand, it remains consistent to maintain: cops literally can’t do whatever they want.
Suppose I grant that some cops abuse their power and occasionally internal affairs sometimes turns a blind eye (though there’s little general reason to see why they would). This concession is still a far cry from demonstrating we live within “an ever increasing despotism”.
But this isn't something new. Y'all talk like this is going to happen. That it's coming. As if it's not a situation that's been going on for as long as humans have been gathering together in permanent settlements.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Nino
There's always been abuse of power. Over the past few centuries, there's been a concerted effort to limit power in order to limit abuses. Even moreso since the Nuremberg trials. There's only a handful of monarchs left in the world. But the reality is that cops don't answer to the head of state. They don't answer to to the top of the power structure at all, usually. They're not military. They don't follow orders like a soldier. They're left to their own devices & judgments. As the public guardians, they're in the confrontation business. We keep adding more & more laws that we expect them to enforce, but we gripe like hell if those laws are enforced against us. "How come you're not out there stopping real crime?" Every cop hears that every day, from all levels of society. It doesn't take long for everybody to become the enemy. They have granted powers & human foibles. The problem of abuse becomes systemic, from the emperor to the samurai.
Trish, Have you ever had an ounce of heroin planted in your car by the LAPD? You would have a different tone if you did. On a side note, the evidence that points to local police forces becoming militarized and federalized is of overwhelming proportions and staring you in the face, more and more, everyday....
I'm a black tgirl. You don't think I've had unpleasant encounters with the cops? So if one cop planted heroin in my car, I would accuse every cop of abuse of power and conclude we live under an increasing despotism. You know me not.Quote:
Trish, Have you ever had an ounce of heroin planted in your car by the LAPD? You would have a different tone if you did.
Saying there's evidence isn't evidence.Quote:
...the evidence that points to local police forces becoming militarized and federalized is of overwhelming proportions