Police Brutality -- Americans Are OPPRESSED, Too

[Segami]

" Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists, as the greatest threat to the American public. Rogelio Serrato is the latest case to be in the news of an innocent person murdered by the police. Serrato was the wrong man, but the Monterey County, California, SWAT team killed the 31-year old father of four and left the family home a charred ruin.


The fact that SWAT teams often go to the wrong door shows the carelessness with which excessive force is used. In one instance the police even confused the town's mayor with a drug dealer, broke into his home, shot dead the family's pet dogs, and held the mayor and his wife and children at gun point. But most cases of police brutality never make the news.


Most who suffer abuse from the police don't bother to complain. They know that to make an enemy of the police brings a lifetime of troubles. Those who do file complaints find that police departments tend to be self-protective and that the naive and gullible public tends to side with the police.


However, you can find plenty of examples of police brutality on Youtube -- more than you can watch in a lifetime. I have just searched Google for "youtube police brutality" and the result is: "497,000 results." There's everything from police shooting a guy in a wheelchair to body slamming a befuddled 89-year old great grandmother to tasering kids and mothers with small children. The fat goon cops love to beat up on women, kids, and old people.


The 497,000 Google results may contain duplicates as more than one person might have posted a video of the same event, and the incidents occurred over more than one year. However, probably only a small percentage of incidents are captured on video by onlookers, and many incidents of police brutality have no witnesses. What the videos reveal is that a large percentage of police move with alacrity to assault the public. The number of incidences could be very high. One million annually would not be an exaggeration.


In contrast, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, in 2009 (the most recent year for which data is compiled), there were 806,000 aggravated assaults (not including assaults by police against the public) by criminals against the public, of which 216,814 were committed by hands and feet and not by weapons. (In the U.S. if you merely push a person or grab his arm, you have committed assault. "Freedom and democracy" America uses any excuse to multiply the number of felons.)


Considering the data, one might conclude that the police are a greater danger to the public than are criminals.


cont'

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Police-Brutality---Ameri-by-paul-craig-roberts-110203-658.html


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[Dappleganger]

1. Not to mention those who dare to report or tape incidents as they occur.

[bbgrunt]

2. The expulsion of press from Egypt is the equivalent of

efforts to make filming police in action illegal in the US.

[Segami]

3. Seems very much so.

[RKP5637]

6. Yep, seems the same to me. n/t

[WingDinger]

4. You are clueless, till cops show up at midnite with guns in your face, saying that they dont need no

stinking warrant. Then, they start saying how you shouldnt own anything, if you are not a liar. How all those liberals are criminals etc. Asking WHO I have in my crawlspace. I told the fucking fascist I had Jimmy Hoffa in there. He said I now had to allow them to search further. This, about two months after I brought down a crooked cop and judge from the same outpost. I felt they could assassinate me at will. I talked loud, and they kept telling me to shoosh. They claimed that a neighbor called and said I was ramming a woman up against the wall. funny thing, I live alone, and was asleep for hours.

[Rex]

5. Well if that is true and we dismiss all cops

we end up with lawless states in complete anarchy.

[provis99]

10. we've only had cops in the world since about 1850.

Society has done quite well without the police, who are nothing better than gangsters employed by the government.

[tblue37]

7. Police have been called "the largest armed criminal gang

in America."

[hfojvt]

8. "considering the data"

as the writer just pulls a number out of thin air based on a google search. A google search that also brings up this article and a WaPo article on police brutality IN EGYPT.

Well I just googled "Paul Craig Roberts idiot" and got 245,000 results.

So that author must have written about 500,000 idiotic things last year.

Considering the data, he's a bigger idiot than Rush Limbaugh.

Okay, maybe not, THAT google search produced 524,000 results and "Obama idiot" produced over 6 million results.

Who knew research could be so fun?

[defendandprotect]

9. k/r