Cops are sociopaths who don't care if they ruin an innocent person's life.
It's not part of their decision making process. Power is.
If the police department did its job correctly, we would not be so afraid of them.
There ain't no song called "Fuck The Fire Department".
Wherever one looks in the world of human organization,
collective responsibility brings a lowering of moral standards.
The Framingham police is an extreme case, an
organization which seems to have been expressly
designed to make it possible for people to do things
together which nobody in his right mind would do alone.
Political power is the privilege of using brute force on persons who have not
harmed anyone. This privilege is what sets governments apart from all other
institutions.
We all have the right to use force in self-defense, but political power is
the use of force against the peaceful.
The most common example is taxes.
When officials collect taxes from John Q. Citizen they are saying,
Buy everything we are selling, or
men with guns will haul you away
to prison.
The one thing that makes government different than any other institution
in our society is that it is given the right to initiate force. No
one else can initiate force without getting a response from the government.
The abuse of power by government is instituted by the
police, DAs, court officers, judges and prison guards
The more power one has, the more corrupt they seem to get.
When government agencies/individuals do not feel the need to respond to citizen
complaints, they have in essence become corrupted by power.
A police officer is given what we call police powers by the state or
federal government and that police power is the right to initiate
force on others.
A police officer becomes corrupted by power when (s)he uses the right
initiate force when it is not warranted or when force is
used against those who have not done anything that warrants such force.
It derives from the combination of
Lucifer Effect
and a lack of of accountability due to a very weak
internal affairs department.
The personal responsibility of the police officer weakens under
a lack of accountability. The feeling is that if you can get away with it,
do it. The same mechanism exists in any criminal activity.
A number of officers become
mean, malicious, punitive, sadistic, vindictive and vicious.
A significant percentage of the Framingham police develop an element
of thuggery in them
If a police officer uses public resources against their critics, it is an
abuse of power and is refered to as using the
color of law,
or more correctly, abusing the
color of law against its critics.
Regretably, most police officers are not sufficiently educated to
even realize that they are abusing their state sanctioned authority.
If they were well educated, then the only reason to abuse their authority is
malice. If they happen to be control freaks, it gets worse.
It takes at least eight years to get a law degree to practice law.
It takes six months of police academy to
enforce the law.
It's the gun. The power-of-the-gun mentality make them unafraid
to confront someone. When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, or kill
somebody. They know they will be absolved of any crime and may get a pretty
ribbon and award.
A police officer corrupted by power becomes a menial functionary who
employs what power he has in order to annoy and frustate others for
his own gratification.
When you strip them of their badge, their gun and state given police powers,
you will find that these individuals do not possess any strong sellable or
usable skills. Which is why they became police officers to begin with.
You are left with a high performing idiot.
When a police officer or any other public official uses the authority
granted them by the public to commit an abuse against the public, they
should have malfeasance tacked on to each and every charge. This should
carry an additional penalty, as appropriate for the nature of the abuse.
Furthermore, a record of malfeasance should be made public for
any candidate running for an office or being considered for
appointment/hiring.
If the penalty for committing a crime against a cop is greater than normal,
the penalty for a cop who commits a crime should also be greater.
Corruption is not the #1 priority of the police chief. His job
is to enforce the law and fight crime.
If we stigmatize sex offenders for life then its clear we should do the
same for sociopathic cops. The time has come for a
police brutality register. Once on the list you will be required
to notify everyone in your neighborhood that you brutalized an
innocent person and abused your power.
Evil is defined as the exercise of power to intentionally
harm (psychologically), hurt (physically) and or
destroy (mortally or spiritually).
Evil is knowing better but doing worse.
We have always considered the police as a necessary evil, but an
evil nevertheless because of the corruption through power.
One thing has become clear: The phrase drunk with power is often
a dead-on description. Power acts to lower inhibitions, much the same as
alcohol does.
Research documents the following characteristics of people with power:
They tend to be more oblivious to what others think, more likely to pursue
the satisfaction of their own appetites, poorer judges of other people's
reactions, more likely to hold stereotypes, overly optimistic and more
likely to take risks.
The novelist Amy Tan has an interesting definition of power:
holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
We are often reminded of the abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, and the
Stanford psychology Professor Philip Zimbardo's simulated jail scenario.
A study of the kings of England reported that those rulers with the
greatest power were far more likely to commit crimes
-- from theft to murder -- than ordinary citizens.
Abraham Lincoln stated: Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you
want to test a man's character, give him power.
Even the fumes of power lower your inhibition.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Powerful people are likely to find that every mirror held up to them says,
in effect, you are the fairest of them all.
When governments have too much power and the citizens are not armed, consider
this statement from the book:
Death By Government
by R.J. Rummel.
Since 3500 BC, there have been 14,000 wars that have killed 3.5 billion people.
In total, during the first eighty-eight years of the twentieth century, almost
170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured,
knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive,
drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments
have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners. The
dead could conceivably be nearly 360 million people. It is as though our
species has been devastated by a modern Black Plague. And indeed it has,
but a plague of Power, not germs."
Tell me again why you think power does not corrupt.
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