I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me

[Gen]

Don't look at me either or I will tase you (indian breddah)

yuh know if him wasn't a cop, him wouldan get him share a beatdung from babylon

[evanovitch]

Don't look at me either or I will tase you (indian breddah)

yuh know if him wasn't a cop, him wouldan get him share a beatdung from babylon

u seet doah…n dat is his attitude on the job…mercy….wait till him get fi him go rung….

[evanovitch]

dis is the article

I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me.

It’s not the police, but the people they stop, who can prevent a detention from turning into a tragedy.

By Sunil Dutta August 19Sunil Dutta, a professor of homeland security at Colorado Tech University, has been an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department for 17 years. The views presented here are his own and do not represent the LAPD or CTU.

A teenager is fatally shot by a police officer; the police are accused of being bloodthirsty, trigger-happy murderers; riots erupt. This, we are led to believe, is the way of things in America.
It is also a terrible calumny; cops are not murderers. No officer goes out in the field wishing to shoot anyone, armed or unarmed. And while they’re unlikely to defend it quite as loudly during a time of national angst like this one, people who work in law enforcement know they are legally vested with the authority to detain suspects — an authority that must sometimes be enforced. Regardless of what happened with Mike Brown, in the overwhelming majority of cases it is not the cops, but the people they stop, who can prevent detentions from turning into tragedies.
Working the street, I can’t even count how many times I withstood curses, screaming tantrums, aggressive and menacing encroachments on my safety zone, and outright challenges to my authority. In the vast majority of such encounters, I was able to peacefully resolve the situation without using force. Cops deploy their training and their intuition creatively, and I wielded every trick in my arsenal, including verbal judo, humor, warnings and ostentatious displays of the lethal (and nonlethal) hardware resting in my duty belt. One time, for instance, my partner and I faced a belligerent man who had doused his car with gallons of gas and was about to create a firebomb at a busy mall filled with holiday shoppers. The potential for serious harm to the bystanders would have justified deadly force. Instead, I distracted him with a hook about his family and loved ones, and he disengaged without hurting anyone. Every day cops show similar restraint and resolve incidents that could easily end up in serious injuries or worse.
Sometimes, though, no amount of persuasion or warnings work on a belligerent person; that’s when cops have to use force, and the results can be tragic. We are still learning what transpired between Officer Darren Wilson and Brown, but in most cases it’s less ambiguous — and officers are rarely at fault. When they use force, they are defending their, or the public’s, safety.
Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?

DON’T ARGUE WITH ME, DON’T CALL ME NAMES, DON’T TELL ME THAT I CAN’T STOP YOU, DON’T SAY I’M A RACIST PIG, DON’T THREATEN THAT YOU’LL SUE ME AND TAKE AWAY MY BADGE. DON’T SCREAM AT ME THAT YOU PAY MY SALARY, AND DON’T EVEN THINK OF AGGRESSIVELY WALKING TOWARDS ME.

I know it is scary for people to be stopped by cops. I also understand the anger and frustration if people believe they have been stopped unjustly or without a reason. I am aware that corrupt and bully cops exist. When it comes to police misconduct, I side with the ACLU: Having worked as an internal affairs investigator, I know that some officers engage in unprofessional and arrogant behavior; sometimes they behave like criminals themselves. I also believe every cop should use a body camera to record interactions with the community at all times. Every police car should have a video recorder. (This will prevent a situation like Mike Brown’s shooting, about which conflicting and self-serving statements allow people to believe what they want.) And you don’t have to submit to an illegal stop or search. You can refuse consent to search your car or home if there’s no warrant (though a pat-down is still allowed if there is cause for suspicion). Always ask the officer whether you are under detention or are free to leave. Unless the officer has a legal basis to stop and search you, he or she must let you go. Finally, cops are legally prohibited from using excessive force: The moment a suspect submits and stops resisting, the officers must cease use of force.

But if you believe (or know) that the cop stopping you is violating your rights or is acting like a bully, I guarantee that the situation will not become easier if you show your anger and resentment. Worse, initiating a physical confrontation is a sure recipe for getting hurt. Police are legally permitted to use deadly force when they assess a serious threat to their or someone else’s life. Save your anger for later, and channel it appropriately. Do what the officer tells you to and it will end safely for both of you. We have a justice system in which you are presumed innocent; if a cop can do his or her job unmolested, that system can run its course. Later, you can ask for a supervisor, lodge a complaint or contact civil rights organizations if you believe your rights were violated. Feel free to sue the police! Just don’t challenge a cop during a stop.
An average person cannot comprehend the risks and has no true understanding of a cop’s job. Hollywood and television stereotypes of the police are cartoons in which fearless super cops singlehandedly defeat dozens of thugs, shooting guns out of their hands. Real life is different. An average cop is always concerned with his or her safety and tries to control every encounter. That is how we are trained. While most citizens are courteous and law abiding, the subset of people we generally interact with everyday are not the genteel types. You don’t know what is in my mind when I stop you. Did I just get a radio call of a shooting moments ago? Am I looking for a murderer or an armed fugitive? For you, this might be a “simple” traffic stop, for me each traffic stop is a potentially dangerous encounter. Show some empathy for an officer’s safety concerns. Don’t make our job more difficult than it already is.
Community members deserve courtesy, respect and professionalism from their officers. Every person stopped by a cop should feel safe instead of feeling that their wellbeing is in jeopardy. Shouldn’t the community members extend the same courtesy to their officers and project that the officer’s safety is not threatened by their actions?

[goldilocks]

No officer goes out in the field wishing to shoot anyone, armed or unarmed. = LIE. plenty of dem get off on it.

Cops deploy their training and their intuition creatively, and I wielded every trick in my arsenal, including verbal judo, humor, warnings and ostentatious displays of the lethal (and nonlethal) hardware resting in my duty belt. = Yes, they LIE

Do what the officer tells you to and it will end safely for both of you. = anodda LIE

Later, you can ask for a supervisor, lodge a complaint or contact civil rights organizations if you believe your rights were violated. = kind of difficult if you critical condition or dead, and dem will still LIE

An average cop is always concerned with his or her safety and tries to control every encounter. = substitute "Frightened for" for concerned with.

[Gen]

Dinesh D’Souza: Ferguson Protesters Are Just Like ISIS


Convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza is hawking a new book and making outlandish comparisons, again.


Dinesh D'Souza has a book to sell.


It was certainly with that in mind that in an interview with the conservative Newsmax TV, D'Souza offered his opinion on the unrest in Ferguson, following the killing by police of an unarmed, black teenager. D'Souza's smart take? Protesters in Ferguson are like ISIS in Iraq.
No, really.


D'Souza shouted at his webcam: "The common thread between ISIS and what's going on in Ferguson is you have these people who basically believe that to correct perceived injustice, it's perfectly okay to inflict all types of new injustices. Behead guys who had nothing to do with it. Go and loot shops from business owners who were not part of the original problem whatsoever. And all of this is then licensed by the left and licensed, to some degree, by the media."


D'Souza, 53, is a Bombay-born author and "documentarian" who served as an adviser for President Ronald Reagan. Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty to a felony charge that he illegally funneled $20,000 in campaign contributions to a Republican Senate candidate. D'Souza is currently hawking a new book which I refuse to name here.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/24/dinesh-d-souza-ferguson-protesters-are-just-like-isis.html

[Blackstar*]

Don't look at me either or I will tase you (indian breddah)

yuh know if him wasn't a cop, him wouldan get him share a beatdung from babylon

He must think he has a licence to kill like 007. :kissteet:

Seriously, is it the nature of the job that attracts homicidal maniacs, or does the job transform well-meaning people?

[evanovitch]

the white ST Louis cop who was on CNN , in prime time, i full view of all watching , kept pushing back Don Lemon from the area that had earlier been designated to them as the place to stand..gave no reason , n he was a stand out in his aggressive manner...

turns out the be the one i posted elsewhere about….35yr veteran of the dept n on tape making one his speeches he seems to make to groups, saying' i have killed before n will kill again…' said ting this guy a chat bout in this article…now the police suspend him saying his views r not'indicative' of the force….35yrs on the job n dem trying to seh no other cop ever had a hint of this fellow cops' view…n none in the community who sat in front of him n heard his views, never objected or informed anyone in the force what he was saying…mmmmmm..mek u just wat a clock a strike…u should hear him talk about the 'undocumented alien Presiden Obama n show himself at the village where the undocumented alien was born...

[Blackstar*]

The thing is that these rogue cops also exacerbate the infamous "black-on-black" crime that white people keep on about. Any black crime victim better think twice before calling police because there are so many of instances of police "mistakenly" harassing victims, going to the wrong house, and/or shooting first and asking questions later.

[blugiant]

Don't look at me either or I will tase you (indian breddah)

yuh know if him wasn't a cop, him wouldan get him share a beatdung from babylon

glad yuh poas diss gen cah wen mii ear itt mii

y yuh tink sum yaawdees cawl dem da c-wurd ann mii nuh mean curry

a latt dem indian peeps asia ar da more racist dan oyinbo

dat y dem still a gawn widd dem untouchable racism

mii awlway wandar iff annoo dem indian peeps woo invent racism