Reply #259: where I'm from [View All]

[guitar man]

an ass kicking means someone got the shit kicked out of them. Difference in local dialects I guess.

I guess I just see the issue of being too permissive in what the police are allowed to do differently. Probably because of what my friends and I lived through in Lincoln County Oklahoma in the mid 1980s. The county sheriff decided him and his deputies were going to "clean up the county".

They started out fairly mild, I guess you could say they "kicked a little ass" to get some punks off the street, much to the delight of many of the county's residents at first. Then it got out of hand. By the time the FBI had to step in, the Sheriff's dept had enlisted the aid of some self styled local vigilantes, were beating confessions out of people, threatened to throw someone out of an airplane without a parachute, burned down a local newspaper office and pretty much ran a general reign of terror over the county until the FBI finally stepped in and put a stop to it, ultimately sending the Sheriff and some of his deputies to prison.

It all started innocently enough I guess, but it spun out of control in a hurry. So excuse me if I don't have as permissive of an attitude where law enforcement officers' acttions are concerned. I've seen firsthand what a little permissiveness can lead.