2007-10-30 14:04:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Let's see - we have about 900,000 Police Officers in the US.
Even if you read about 1 new case of Police misconduct every day, that would only be 365 Officers, or less than .04% of all Officers in the United States.
Does that seem very significant to you?
2007-10-30 14:21:58 · answer #1 · answered by CGIV76 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not nearly as significant as FALSE allegations of police misconduct.
2007-10-30 21:51:33 · answer #2 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Are you kidding me? Police misconduct is rampant in this country! It's swept under the rug and overlooked. They get to keep abusing their power. Here's a link:
http://www.badcopnews.com/
2007-10-31 02:28:17 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. When the cops beat up Minority people they set whole communities against them. Remember the Rodney King beating that was videotapes then broadcast, then an all white jury found the cops not guilty and then LA had big very bad riots. The cops need to look at their own best interest, and that has to do with treating Minority people with the same kind of respect they'd show to white people, treat people fairly, don't abuse power because all they do is make millions of enemies for themselves, people who understand at the bottom of their hearts that the American justice system from the cop in the street to the Supreme Court is unfair, biased, cruel, and evil. It doesn't have to be that way, it shouldn't, either.
2007-10-30 21:09:24 · answer #4 · answered by jxt299 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Its not extremely widespread...ask yourself this....if an officer makes a traffic stop for a completely legitimate reason, the citizen cooperates, the officer is courteous, the traffic stop goes off with no confrontation, would you see the video on Youtube?.....The answer is no and this happens thousnads of time s per day
2007-10-30 21:08:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not significant. It will only become significant if we ignore the problem and it grows.
2007-10-30 21:06:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not nearly as big a problem as criminal misconduct.
2007-10-30 21:07:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Heck No' they are just doing their job. Everything they do is perfectly legal.
Maybe only .04% were cought, but they did'nt do it.
2007-10-31 08:37:14 · answer #8 · answered by Dan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, plenty of examples. We as citizens are really fortunate that technology has allowed more and more documentation of the problem.
Cheers
2007-10-31 02:03:44 · answer #9 · answered by james b 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, I think that the few times that it does happen it's thrown at us so much that we think it's worse of a problem than it really is.
2007-10-30 21:07:57 · answer #10 · answered by wildeyes_heart_of_stone 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋