Why don't black folks trust the police?

Oh yeah... their actions.

http://jezebel.com/autopsy-reveals-louisiana-cops-lied-about-shooting-of-s-1626197247

Fuck an increasingly large percentage of the police. ​

Should have called The Wolf.

No one should trust the police. They are simply agents of a greedy, controlling, uncaring government.

Come now, I'm sure he was a thug or a welfare cheat or something. I mean, he probably doesn't even own a pair of work boots.

I have a friend, this guy is the poster boy for the Castle Doctrine. He's got at least two guns, everywhere he goes, he even got private eye training just so he could get the better conceal carry permits. He was Duck Dynasty before Duck Dynasty was cool. The real thing. If I need to bury a body, I'm calling him.

Anyways, he's building a new house a few hundred yards away from his current house. One night/early morning he notices lights in the new construction, and grabs his gun to go investigate.

Then, he of all people pauses. He's got new grandkids. This is stupid. Call the county sheriff. The following is a big step for him.

"Hello, sheriffs department, I've got active trespassers on my property"

What do you want us to do about it?

"Excuse me?"

What do you want us to do about it?

I'll take care of it.

He hangs up. He's a tag agent, so he gets the plate and tracks the guy down. Turns out this guy was hired to do clean up and chose the overnights. He informs him not to come back again unless it's daylight.

Anyways, the next day the Sheriff call him.

Just know, we record every phone call, we heard you say you'll take care of it, don't that again.

"Don't worry, I will not call you, and I will not say those words to you, ever again"

Point? Cops are getting bad everywhere. This particular department makes their bones, and their dollars doing drug interdiction on I-40. Oh and last month they were bragging that they got an armored personnel carrier.

My house was robbed ... probably 15 years ago. When I called the police, I got the same thing - What do you want us to do?

After 9/11, it was absolutely clear that things like the TSA were security theater, acts intended to provide the impression of security without actually doing anything.

A lot of incidents involving police make much more sense if you imagine the police as being security theater. They're not actually trained to prevent harm and arrest criminals; they're just trained to present the appearance of doing so to sufficiently many people that the next election can be won. Sure, that involves occasionally actually doing something about crime, but doing something about crime is not their mission.

This is the fault of politicians more than it is the fault of the police. The police are just doing what they've been deliberately structured to do.

This kind of stuff is ultimately a consequence of the internet age, I think. Now that people all around the country can easily compare notes, it's being discovered how . . . haphazard the police actually are. Same thing is happening with ambulance service, btw. Folks are working out how inconsistant ambulance service is. Only emergency service that seems immune to this so far is the fire department. If a building is on fire, that's kinda hard to ignore and the firemen show right up to deal with it.

Only a small minority of calls to firemen involve structure fires they are most well known for. More fire calls than anything are for vehicle accidents.

Do firemen get kittens out of trees? I think trained monkeys would work well. Dress them up in a protective suit (clawing and biting kittens/cats are no joke)
and have them carry/escort the kittens back down. It can't miss.

I used to begrudge Firemen. But, the reality is they're the smart ones. They're running the biggest con game in the government. 24-hours on and 48-hours off. They spend eight hours sleeping and sixteen hours sitting around playing dominoes and circle jerking each other. They don't piss anyone off because, well, they don't do anything.

who said so or is it your personal opinion?

Probably for the same reason white folks, yellow folks etc. don't/shouldn't trust the police. They are a bundle of cunts, gangsters who long ago dropped any pretence of protecting and serving. They see themselves now as elevated elites, and the people they are supposed to serve as cattle at best, cockroaches at worst. They are now the foot soldiers of the big-government, corporation-controlled oligarchy. Their job is to keep the restive masses in their place more than anything else.

I used to think this, too, but then every so often there is a fire involving injury or death, and I realize that they earn that sitting around.

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2014/...firefighters-lt-edward-walsh-michael-kennedy/

I couldn't be a fireman. I can't do anything complicated fast, especially after being sedentary for many hours.
I'm a steady resonable pace king of guy.

I don't remember the stats exactly or the source, but I think I recall something about farming being more deadly an occupation than firefighting.

Of course dying while falling from a silo doesn't register on the heroism chart compared to falling from the ladder truck during a five alarm.

Falling into a fetid manure pit tends to take the shine off the hero trophy too.
Disk harrow mishaps have to be pretty "harrowing" as well.

Or walking 100+ people down a staircase at the WTC before it collapses out from under you.

I'm always amazed at the ungodly stamina some firemen have. I remember one of the guys who died in the WTC towers "raced up the stairs" to get to around the 100th floor to search for survivors. That is like climbing a ladder a quarter mile high.

Doing it at a steady pace would be one hell of an achievement. But RACING up there!!

Lugging 40 pounds of equipment, too.

One of our Fort Gordon FD (all civilians, no military) members has on at least one occasion won the state (National even?)
firefighter championships. It's the fittest of the fit, of course racing up and down ladders, lugging gear, all that FD sort of stuff.

They have to be strong. It's all they have because they're simply not smart enough to pass the Police Academy entrance exams.

Here's a link. Brandon Cunningham is his name, he's won many times at all levels of competition.
I think he runs his own fitness training school too.

http://www.firefighternation.com/ar...010-combat-challenge-results-nationals-worlds

Many years ago I passed the initial police tests for Glendale Arizona but finally got weeded out for not having enough college.
Yep - hundreds of applicants, few positions to fill. If it's me or somebody with a degree who are they going to pick?
No big deal, I joined The Army shortly after that failed attempt anyway.

Yeah, cuz you really need a degree to lug a hose and spray water.

I said I needed college for the police test, not FD. If I smoked (get it, smoke?) the FD test I still couldn't do the job, because I can't think very fast. I have quick reactions when it comes to reflexes but when there's more than one thing to think about at a time under a time restraint I'm terrible.

Yeah, cuz that's all they do.

Man, I totally misread your post. It must be Monday.

I understand, except I get a case of "the Mondays" on Friday believe it or not. That's traditionally my bad luck day.

Are you really in Uzbekistan?