I lived (an will again) in a metropolitan area with one of the most corrupt police forces in the country: the LAPD. Surrounding the L.A. city limits (which are vast) are other shady police forces. Remember Mark Firmin? He was a member of the illustrious Torrance Police Department. I lived in Torrance when the whole scandal unfolded. I don't know how many of you remember the particulars but there were some interesting details that came out. We long heard rumors of the N.I.T. CODES. They stood for...you guessed it...Nigger In Torrance. There was an additional code, N.I.T.A.D., the last two letter meaning after dark. The additional 2 letters brought 2 police cars. What would the unsuspecting man or woman be doing? Probably walking down the street or waiting at the bus stop. These details were substatiated by a friend of mine who was an undercover narcotics cop (he told me this after I'd been selling him drugs for almost a year). I was arrested and taken to jail by the same police department (for something completely unrelated), they are dirty. My point is that it can go terribly wrong on a grass roots level as well as an administrative one. As for the LAPD, they mostly do as they damn well please. If anyone has ever seen the movie L.A. Confidential, LAPD hasn't changed much...if at all.
Our rights and freedoms are eroding slowly, oh so slowly. I too recognise the poor being targeted. Here in the islands, more often than not the police do nothing. Ice is rampant and they sit in little groups for hours on end, so engrossed in whatever it is they're doing that one could probably steal a tire from their Monstrosity XL and they wouldn't notice.
Another thing that irks me are the holier-than-thou Republicans who deny proven facts and wholeheartedly back everything Dubya and his henchmen are doing. I hope they're ready to answer for this. They let the devil in the front door.
Our rights and freedoms are eroding slowly, oh so slowly. I too recognise the poor being targeted. Here in the islands, more often than not the police do nothing. Ice is rampant and they sit in little groups for hours on end, so engrossed in whatever it is they're doing that one could probably steal a tire from their Monstrosity XL and they wouldn't notice.
Another thing that irks me are the holier-than-thou Republicans who deny proven facts and wholeheartedly back everything Dubya and his henchmen are doing. I hope they're ready to answer for this. They let the devil in the front door.