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mopinko

(70,003 posts)
8. yeah, i have seen a couple of those.
Sun Jun 16, 2019, 11:23 AM
Jun 2019

what a cess pool. i hope lightfoot has her finger on it.
if she is smart, she will make a few examples, and fast.
fire the top 10 on the list of settlements for brutality.

and yeah, hunt down the racists.
my ex married a chi cop who just retired. she says, yes, it is just a few bad apples, everyone looks the other way. BUT, if you dont go along to get along you will be like her- retired after 20 years a patrolman.

i had a real eye opener a while back when i ran into a cop in 2 diff settings-
first, he arrested the guy that broke into my house.
but they had already picked him up, basically profiled, before they got the report. he had my sons backpack, w his wallet in it.
when we went to court, they did a very hinky little dance to suppress that inconvenient fact. he talked to us ahead of time to make sure we "had our story straight". guy was convicted.
i was not asked to testify.

second, my son gets picked up for weed in a bogus bust.
i go to the station, and there he is.
he says, oh, let me go check for you.
comes back and says- so sorry. too late. he was already booked. if he hadnt been, i could have sprung him.


yup, go along, get along.
but trash a few more bad apples, and maybe you open up a lane for the good ones.

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