Seriously, what can stop the police state apparatus here in the United States?

Question

I'm not trying to offend anyone, but what happend to the police? Assaulting women, knocking people off bikes tasering people to death?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfISlq1gzK8

Answer 1

Those police are anti-American communist terrorist traitors. When they arrive in h**l they will know misery like they have never imagined. When God Almighty spews his righteous fire all over their souls they will know the desolation of the dark place. May Heaven never be soiled with their Satanic wickedness.

No it is not just a few bad cops. If that were so the other cops would be arresting them. You so called good cops who let f@ggot punks like that beat down women are nearly as responsible. We, the informed public know all about you commies. May God have mercy on your traitorous anti-American souls.

Answer 2

Good will prevail over Evil.

Answer 3

That will be ethnic cleansing by order of the Jews who run America.

Answer 4

The way it's going now?

Nothing short of a "REVOLUTION".

Question the Authority.

Stop being salved to the criminal Elites and big fat corps. and their war criminal agents like bush and cheney, their phony Patriot Act and Fascist Home Land security.

Wake Up people , The "End Game" is almost upon us.

Fight the "NWO" designed by fascist criminals like the Builder bergs group and other criminal Elites.

Stand for your rights, the ones given to you by your "Finding Fathers"

Don't negotiate your freedom, ever.

My Best Regards.

Answer 5

Do not consent to being ruled by tyrants.

Fight back.

Do what must be done.

Answer 6

nothing.you cannot "stereotype people,or blame everyone that serve as a police officer or any other walk of "life.there are good people " in all professions and every generation has good and bad".."life is not fair" but.."god is good".and so are people,generally,,some are waxing cold it is destiny and only 1 man can change anyones 'human nature" we are basically the same in nature as everyone around us.we must learn that we are a mirror image of each other. and learn to submit to authorities as it is written because god has set each man in his appointed position in life and he alone will judge us all".

Answer 7

People have to wake-up and start getting more involved. As long as they keep drinking the fluoride in the water that probably won't happen

Answer 8

All that is needed is a series of small attitude changes

Hey I pay you - if you can't be responsible with the tazers then we the tax payer will take them away from you - and then call your local government and tell them that

Hey your a public servant and I am that public -

Hey Mr. Government what did you do with MY money and how dare you feed your children on my dime when you aren't doing as your told by your masters ?

Does the government work for you - Do the police ?

Then start treating them as employees and not as masters or gods or Kings - but as people on the payroll

On welfare ? A police officer ? The President of the US ? You all get paid out of the public purse and dam right I want to know what your doing and with who and why buddy

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It wouldn't take a lot - just a small shift in the perception of the public and yes things would change fast  

Answer 9

I'm just guessing that was the tail end of a situation where the police had probably told her numerous times to move and she decided she wanted to continue protesting.  Unfortunately people get frustrated and that is the kind of activity that can occur.

Answer 10

That is frightening - clearly an unprovoked and violent assault... if this had been a member of the public (making the assault) there is no doubt in my mind they would have been arrested.  If the young woman had hit her head on a kerb stone she could easily have died - people have - and others have ended up in prison for murder as a result.

The police have lost the trust of the public - they know it - because they have been (ab)used politically.  As a result of such acts as seen on this video, is it any surprise?  The reverse is also true, having lost that public trust the police are clearly afraid of the public and view them (at least in this case) as 'the enemy'.

Sly Fox also has interesting clips - the police attitudes are revealed by:

1/  Repeatedly shooting a peaceful protester walking away from them, unarmed, with her back to them, with rubber bullets.

2/  Subsequently laughing about what is absolutely clear is an entirely unprovoked assault.

Disturbing stuff in a 'democracy'... police are there to serve and protect the public first and foremost, not their political masters.  The fact that they find this behaviour funny is all the more disturbing as it shows their underlying mentality.

To answer your question - revolution, overthrow of the political system, a mass of people who draw the line at the erosion of their liberties and the law.

Answer 11

if criminals would stop being criminals then police wouldnt be needed,yes?...but if the criminals would stop being criminals...WE WOULDNT NEED POLICE AND THEREFORE THERE WOULD BE NO ABUSES>>>>THINK

Answer 12

those cases are fortunately the exception, not the rule.

the problem is legislation, not the enforcement. if you dislike the rules then change them, not those who are put to task.

Answer 13

Let's take back our country. We have become a police state because you and I, we, have allowed the government to do so, ie patriot act for starters.

Join me for change. Register now and note for Barach Obama; a vote for change for the individual person.

Answer 14

Adherence to our obligations as outlined in the Declaration of Independence.

Answer 15

Humm! I really don't know what to say any more, but I really don't feel that things are really as they should be.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=G63FEamhpA...

There does seem to be a general lack of professionally!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NCYq3sh8UR...

But you should all be good little Sheepeople!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K7DbmZHUr1...

Answer 16

She says "I'm not going to do it again".  Do what again?  How do you know she didn't instigate it?  What exactly were they protesting again?

Answer 17

Nothing happened.. to police. If anything, policing has evolved and gotten more professional than each decade before. What has changed is the invention of cell phone cameras and recordings. What is happening today, the few cases where an officer or officers act like idiots and embarass the rest of us, is probably a small percentage of what went on in the 60's. So before we get to up in arms over what is happening to the police, lets put it in perspective.. Hope this helps

Answer 18

To do so would mean we would have to get to the root of that evil, an evil 'we the people' created with empathy. Some would like to site a particular party, a group, an individual or the whatever for personal gratification of blaming vs taking responsibility.

Lets start with Institutional Racism: http://academic.udayton.edu/race/intro.h...

Followed by a simple riot that need not happen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRDvY_anJ... - as a precursor to - http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates... - yet the inevitable happened as E N H A N C E D by the Media - something the same media left out prior to the LA Riot: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht... - that eventually led to this - the unthinkable - http://www.popularmechanics.com/technolo...

To end this, I will DARE again to end with a phrase that got me a vileation notice which is no different then some of the TC answers inciting 'revolution' aka violence. SWAT no longer concerns itself with 'the colored man', rather the institution that feeds it. To do what few seek, total control of the mass.

* I would like to add that protests are just protests as long as they are with the guidelines of protests. When the few start to instigate violence and the mass does not curtail that violence then it becomes a Destructive Violence that gets people hurt mortaly an occasionaly fataly that ends up costing $$ our taxes and insurance.

If people have no issue commiting violent protests, I have no problem with police raising baton over their shoulder and swinging nor do I have a problem their thrusting the end into the solar plexus to define 'stand back' to the same protestors.

Answer 19

On this machine, I don't have the capacity to watch the YouTube..video so my apologies in advance...

1) Non-Violence is one of my biggest ideals in this life...inspired by the likes of Martin Luther King JR and Gandhi... among others...

2) However.. in blog sites that have debated this issue the biggest problems Police-Authorities have with Violent-Criminals is the effectiveness of 'Stopping Power'...

3) To me this is a legitimatie concern, because, if their main priority(setting all police corruption aside for the moment) is to protect us 'Civilians'.... then how can they do so when a violent criminal goes on a shooting-spree.... tackling them from behind, or non-lethally immobilizing the perpretrator might be ideal.... but how many more lives are lost by the time it takes to do so...

4) The answer to #3 above is to invest in technology that has the stopping power of a bullet, yet without the lethal effects of the bullet.

5) On a cynical note, and more the temperature of this question one might assume... is that I welcome the tasing... to me it appears the police are learning alternatives to the John Wayne lifestyle they might have had at the 'Academy' some decades ago...

Answer 20

It has evolved from the beginning or Reagan. I remember that is when they began this sort of thing. That is when I first saw a curbside taken down with the cuffs and kicking in broad daylight. Now, it is many, many times worse. I know too many who have gone through this kind of training. Be very, very careful.

Answer 21

I don't know which amazes me more--this question or the answers to it.

We are a h**l of a long way from having a police state.

This in no way suggests we don't have a few bad police officers.  Any group of people as large as the combined police forces around the United States is bound to have a few bad actors.  For the most part, they are dealt with as their actions merit.

I have been personally acquainted with a number of police officers.  Most of them have been the good guys.  I have known a few who were not.  Most of these have lost their positions but a few remain active police officers.

A well-run police department will have a review process.  Anyone who feels an officer has abused his position can report that officer using his or her badge number.

I don't know the specifics of the cases you cite of officers assaulting women or knocking people off bikes.  I suspect these cases are the exceptions rather than the rule, and hopefully they are being dealt with by the appropriate departments.  As to tasering people to death, every officer who carries a taser has to submit to being tasered himself or herself before carrying it.  Some people who have been tasered have had health problems or have reacted in ways that could not have been predicted.  People have also died after being pepper sprayed, even though pepper spray is not considered lethal.

Many police officers put their lives on the line every day for a public which is largely ungrateful and often resentful.  I'm not and never have been a police officer, and I have known enough bad cops to know they do exist, but 99 percent of police officers are the kind of people I would like to have as neighbors.  A lot of their "victims" are probably I wouldn't want anywhere near me.

Thumbs down if you want to.  I really don't care whether you agree or not.