• From a long time website loyalist –

I wasn’t 100% convinced that you were right about a problem with the police but now I am. I have been following news stories closely as well as watching videos since your last post about police. I think you are dead wrong. There is a bigger problem than you described.

I saw where the cops shot an 11yo boy who had called police for help with a domestic abuse problem in the home. A cop showed up, yelled for people in the house to come out with their hands up, the boy did, the cop shot him without any hesitation as he came through the doorway…with his hands up.

Then I read that 3 police officers in Arkansas were repeatedly punching a man in the head and kicking him all at the same time. Then they ordered a by-stander to stop recording them. [Recording them is legal, telling a civilian to not record is illegal.]

In NJ a man called 911 saying there were two burglars in his backyard, one with a shotgun. The police rolled up, saw a man in the front yard, with no warning they shot him dead. They said they found a ‘replica’ gun nearby, but they couldn’t tie it to the man they shot dead. The man police killed was the homeowner going out to meet the arriving police to tell them what was going on.

None of that is as disgusting, as bad as it is in the US, as the cop in Australia who tasered a 95-year old nursing home patient. She died as a result. Here is the super-lame excuse by the cop, she was coming at him with a knife. She is 95yo, was using a walker, moving at a slower than normal walking pace, wouldn’t stop on the cop’s command, so he tasered and killed a 95yo woman. Upon his arrival the cop was told that the elderly woman suffered from dementia. What kind of man does that? Answer, a man doesn’t, a thug, **ssy or animal does.

So you are dead wrong AH, it is worse than you have been telling us.

Now my turn…So she thinks I am ‘dead wrong’?????

How about the Loveland, Colorado police department cops caught on video with a senior citizen suffering from dementia. The cops are recorded mocking the woman, openly making fun of her, and then caused significant injuries taking her into custody…including a fractured arm and dislocated shoulder. When a kindly bystander, trying to help, asked the police if they had to be that aggressive with her…they lashed out and said it was none of her business, threatening to arrest her.

When the cops’ supervisor, a Sargent, showed up he said to keep treating the elderly senior citizen ‘like an animal.’ And he also mistreated and threatened the bystander.

Then there is the brave and heroic cop in Arizona…who shot a senior citizen in the back multiple times…as the murderous criminal mastermind suspect was fleeing…in a motorized wheelchair moving at a slower than walking pace. Yeah, this senior citizen was accused by a Walmart employee of stealing a toolbox. When the cop showed up he said the suspect brandished a knife…from his motorized wheelchair. As the suspect fled the scene going slower than a walk in his motorized wheelchair…the cop walked behind the man…and shot him multiple times in the back. The suspect died at the scene after being handcuffed by the cop.

As for senior citizen women suffering from dementia in Australia…New Mexico will kill those dastardly elderly folks too! In Las Cruces a family called cops for help with their 75-year old mother who was acting irrationally. They told the dispatcher that their mother suffered from dementia. The cops showed up, came through the door, the woman was standing there with two kitchen knives in her hand. They told her to drop them, then shot her dead. Problem…not only did she suffer from dementia, she was ordered to drop the knives in English…she spoke only Spanish. She was killed all the same…great help the cops were…to serve and protect!

But Atlanta cops won’t be outdone! Cops executed a no-knock raid on a 92-year old woman’s home…a drug raid…from an un-investigated ‘tip’. She thought someone was breaking into her house, took a shot at the home invaders crashing through her door. In a huge hail of gunfire 11 cops killed her on the spot.

Problem…ah, no drugs were in the house. Bigger problem…the cops were caught on video planting drugs in the house to justify their raid.

Don’t worry, not all elderly woman and cop stories end in death. In Colorado a 73-year old woman got confused and left a Walmart store without paying for $14 worth of flowers. When an employee asked her to return the flowers she did and expressed confusion as to what was going on. But the big, brave, heroic cops were not satisfied with the actions of this dangerous and master criminal. They threw her to the ground, injured her, placed in her in cuffs, and arrested her. Great protection of society by amazing police officers doing their job…to protect and serve!

You think it is only senior citizens? Well, In Texas a 28-year old woman was shot while playing video games with her nephew. Someone called in a tip that a neighbor’s back door was open…after dark…OMG!

A cop showed up to investigate and saw the back door slightly ajar. The Fort Worth police officer then crept along the side of the house, and peered through a window and saw the aunt. The officer shouted “Put your hands up! Show me your hands!” as he pulled the trigger multiple times. She died on the spot. And the cop narrowly missed shooting the 8-year old nephew.

Why was the back door open? The aunt had burned hamburgers earlier and they were airing out the house. And FWIW…the cop never identified himself or announced his presence before he shouted at the woman. So the moral of the story is this; 1) don’t live in Ft Worth, 2) don’t babysit your nephew, 3) don’t burn your hamburgers, 4) don’t leave your back door open…even slightly, 5) don’t play video games after dark, 6) always trust the police. To Serve & Protect ah, huh.

The problems with police are rampant, widespread, deadly, and getting worse. And police are rarely, VERY rarely held accountable for their actions…even when they kill unarmed people or senior citizens with dementia…or those escaping in a motorized wheelchair.

This all is symptomatic of an increasing police state…exactly what has been planed for over 100 years.

On the other hand…you bet there are good cops out there! Love em, respect em, pray for them! And hopefully they will turn in the huge number of bad cops so those bad cops face justice.

We need:

1. To get rid of the bumper sticker crap…”Defund the Police!” is absolutely stupid and non-productive.
2. To refocus on a simple, easy to understand, mission…solve crime. Period…solve crime, violent crime first, property crime 2nd priority. The rest of the crap they do presently either goes away or someone else does it.
3. Training of police officers should be 2-years focusing on how to solve crime, protecting citizen rights, and supporting their community. They should come out of the academy with a 2-year associates degree in criminal justice. A mindset should be taught/fostered that bad cops are ‘outed’ by other cops.
4. Citizen oversight of everything, who gets hired, who gets promoted, use-of-force incidents, all of it. Police Chiefs are elected. Communities get the police they want…and deserve.
5. When a cop makes a mistake…retraining is called for. If the mistake is any kind of serious…significant unpaid time off and demotion as punishment.
6. When a cop commits a crime…they go to prison!
7. No military gear/equipment for police.
8. Once police reform is completed…a great pay-scale for police officers, wide-spread community support of police departments, foster an atmosphere of respect, love, admiration, and devotion to police officers.

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