PIGINPAIN
(Journeyman)
06/19/04 02:37 PM
Re: Question about Laws

I wrote another response, but then I smoked a cigarette and took ten deep breathes, as deep as a smoker can take...

First, you need to read and understand the Fourth Amendment. A citizen who doesn't understand their rights should not be suprised when they are trampled on. The protection is against unreasonable search and seizure. Police officers go through weeks of training to recognize drug and alcohol intoxication. If a police officer says there are drugs in your system, there are probably drugs in your system. As I previously stated, if there are drugs in your system they are evidence that must be collected quickly.

Second, you talk about racsist cops. Replace the word "police" in your statement with any race (ie white, black, hispanic) and you will see that it is hate speech. You are refering to a group of mostly honest hardworking people and identifying all of them by the color of their uniform. You do this because less than 2% of them nationwide commit a criminal act. Yet 23% of Americans will commit some type of crime before age 30.

Third, in many states police officers are required to have a minimum of an AA degree. I am finishing my MA in criminology. That means that I have four years of undergrad, two years of masters,one and one half years of police coursework, and a one year probationary period where I worked one on one with a senior officer. That is a total of eight and a half years of advanced education. A judge has between three years and seven years of advanced education (one need not have gone to college to go to law school).

Fourth, your right, all police are bad and we should do away with them immediately. Just make certain that when you and yours are being shot, beaten, raped, or stolen from you do not call 911 because we won't be there. While everyone is sleeping comfortably in their Ambien induced haze my "brothers and sisters in blue" and I were out there making sure no one broke into your house, abducted children, or killed an entire family on vacation by driving under the influence. But I agree, we should not be out there because you don't want a police state so we will go home to our loved ones. Except... I have three friends who can't go home to their spouses' and kids' because they died protecting your rights, including hate speech. One of them was killed by a drunk driver.

Fifth, you don't understand us. When my friend of seven years was killed on duty by a drunk driver on a San Diego Freeway because he stopped to help a family with their broken down car, I didn't go out and violate DUI suspects' rights I was more careful. The more careful I am with a suspect's rights the more likely I am to get a conviction.

Finally, if a person is truly innocent then why object to having blood drawn. These are not innocent people. Anyone who screams this loudly about police abusing rights is either an ACLU member(but that requires an education) or they have a guilty conscience. As you grow up I suggest you actually spend some time reading the constitution. Perhaps by the time you graduate from high school, in a few years, you will understand that America is not about RIGHTS, it is about balancing the rights of the individual against the needs of our society. If we lived in your America, some people, your friends and family only, would have unlimited freedom while the rest of us paid for their excess and hedonism. In that kind of a world you could call 911 while being raped, but the rest of us would have to tolerate you killing our children when you drive drunk. I don't want to live in that world.



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