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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Well he is not a cop he is just a screw. A screw with screw loose by the sound of it.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
How about do Sunday School teachers kill?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/10/huck......dex.html what about nurses? http://www.ivteam.com/nurse-charged-with-murder/ Just don't tell me puppeteers get arrested too http://www2.tbo.com/content/2007/nov/04/......battery/ Oh man, next some TV chef will try to kill someone http://cbs2.com/local/Murder.plot.food.2.1697783.html nooooo! At least street performers are not likely to commit crimes... http://www.wusa9.com/printfullstory.aspx?storyid=75322 |
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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts |
So many straw men, so little time. I knew you wouldn't be able to resist, Santa.
You don't see any discrepancies betwen the list you gave and the role of police in civilized society? None whatsoever? Everyone is the same, on a completely equal footing in your eyes? To you there's really no difference between a street performer and a cop with specialized training? So that, if the busker gets his jollies groping a girl, then the cops should be able to get away with it too? |
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Freak Prodigy Inner circle NYC & LA 1805 Posts |
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On 2010-08-02 18:48, MagicSanta wrote: Someone that dresses in a character/mascot costume and poses for pictures on the street for money is not a Street Performer. They are unskilled panhandlers with a lame gimmick.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
You think was about a police officer? Oh you poor lad....
Say, why not cleanse your soul and just say you don't like the police and think they are victimizing you. I bet you think someone listens to your phone calls and reads your email too don'cha? |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Freak, you are right of course and I was making a huge streatch. Calling that dude a street performer is like calling a hill billy jail guard a cop.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
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The too big to jail never commit crimes. That’s what that screw was thinking it seems.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Individuals commit crimes.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Usually in a joint enterprise. Very few criminals are loners in comparison to ones not.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Individuals come together to commit crime. To try to imply that all or most or even a large number of the police are criminals is complete nonsense.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Who told you that?
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
A thing called reality.....
What? Do you folks run around wanting the guilty to remain free while the innocent go to prison? Why? |
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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts |
Yes, of course, only guilty people end up in jail.
I was doing you a favor Santa. Next up will be the cops stories coming out of New Orleans about how they gunned down unarmed civilians during Katrina. Thought I'd start off easy on you. |
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
You must have terrible police there - we have the odd bad apple but the great majority of the cops I've had dealings with have been polite and decent - even when they were giving me speeding tickets. Here in Australia we have Random Breath Testing - the police do not need reason or suspicion - they simply stop random cars and politely ask for a speciman of breath which we are required to provide as part of the right to drive on public roads. As I drive a lot at night I am frequently pulled up - I always register 0 because I don't drink but I do not mind being stopped - the more drunks they keep off the road - the safer it is for all of us.
I doubt Chance will find Noah's Ark if this is the best he can do looking for a killer cop. I'm sure I've read of many of them - but as Santa points out - it's people commit crimes - not job descriptions. And I have to say I find the 5 hour traffic stop a little incredible - that is a long, long time - one would think a very newsworthy length of time. Most seiges don't last that long. Of course I am very naive. I am still surprised that a Socialist Christian Financial Advisor moonlights as a street performer - or is it the street performer who moonlights as a financial advisor? |
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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts |
It's the other way around. I'm a busker that moonlights as a FOREX trader.
Need "real" killer cops? Here you go: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100727/ap_o......hootings http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/us/14justice.html |
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Skip Way Inner circle 3771 Posts |
So, because they receive specialized vetting and training cops are supposed to be perfect little public servants? One of my first rookie cases involved a patrolman served with divorce papers who fell over the edge. He stopped a car with two couples on an isolated road late one night. He killed the men and raped the women. One survived to testify against him. A very sad case, but do we disband the entire force because of this one madman? Do we take every patrolman involved in a divorce off the road?
Later in my career I was the lead investigator on three cops who set up the robbery of a half-mill payroll escort. The plan called for killing the armored car guard and driver. The third man couldn't go through with it and reported the planned heist to save the armored car men. These remote incidents in no way shake my faith in America's law enforcement pros. They're individuals and in no way represent the overwhelming number of professionals protecting us day and night. On the other extreme, I had one of my patrolmen write himself a ticket. A citizen came in and complained that he saw patrol car #X drive through a red light. I called the patrol in and he admitted that he'd not been paying attention and caught himself too late just as he drove through the intersection. He wrote himself a ticket and had the complainant sign as witness. Good to his word, he processed the ticket, paid the fine and swallowed the points. His comment to me,"I'd have written him if I caught him. Fair is fair." Bad cop? As Santa and others have already pointed out - there are bad cops just as there are bad priests, bad doctors, bad teachers and bad <insert profession here>. With the crap and intense public scrutiny these men and women face day in and day out, it sometimes amazes me that more don't cross the line. We just had a 30-year veteran SHP captain with a spotless record forced to resign because of suggestive, yet harmless, text messages passed between himself and an SHP secretary. Madness. Still, the good guys far and away outnumber the bad and I am grateful for every one of them.
How you leave others feeling after an Experience with you becomes your Trademark.
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
So it is in fact the same there as here - the great bulk of police are fine - otherwise our societies would not function as well as they do, but because police are human and not robocop - a few go bad - as with other humans.
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Skip Way Inner circle 3771 Posts |
There are basically three reasons men and women enter the stressful vetting and training process to become cops:
1) They have a genuine calling to serve and protect their community; 2) They want the power and authority that accompanies a badge and gun; and 3) They think it's cool and easy work cruising the streets and eating donuts. The psychological vetting generally weeds out the last two and takes a very close look at the first one. Some still get through - no system is perfect. But, the overall record of law enforcement professionals in the U.S. as a whole is good. Chase is simply harvesting sour grapes.
How you leave others feeling after an Experience with you becomes your Trademark.
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
People will play to their strengths.
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