When Canadian cops start robbing the public they are paid to protect you know our economy is screwed
January 22, 2009 - 3:29pm
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What an odd story.
Jail guards sometimes get drawn into criminal behaviour by contact with criminals. Not surprising the same thing sometimes happens to cops.
No actually, you know how close to a police state it is. Where the police believe they are above the law and know they won't get prosecuted for a damn thing.
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"watching the tide roll away"
I find it hard to believe that there are still people who think the police are there to protect the public.
Plus, the economy has nothing to do with it. The police haven't "started" stealing from people at all. They've always done it, to people who "don't matter" and who won't be believed.
This story is very odd though, since how much money could a newspaper deliverer have on them at any one time? This is a marginal low paying crappy job. Something's fishy, just not sure what.
Intimidation chill, by further proving to the public that the police are above the law.
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"watching the tide roll away"
Weird. There's got to be more to this. There's more lucrative targets for crooked cops than newspaper delivery guys.
Protection racket?
You bet, plus what I stated. Though I see some do not want to realize how close we are.
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"watching the tide roll away"
Well, it's not just cops that promote a police state, but prosecutors and judges who cover for them. I think, in fact, prosecutors and judges and Atourneys General are worse than the crooked cops.
I know their kind. What's wrong with them is wrong all the way through them.
It's what I was ranting about over in the feminist forum about going after Johns in order to tackle the problem of street prostitution. Fine on paper, in a perfect world of honest cops. But, in practice, I think it would cause as much misery as it might prevent.
Protection racket?
I doubt it.
Looking at the time I'd say good old drunkeness and that the robbery is just a way for local cops to cover all the angles.
The same thing is happening in Sonoma County. A friend's niece was the victim of a "hot burglary" - home broken into, money & car stolen while they were asleep.
She reported the incident to the police. The police recovered the car. They told her the impound fee would be $800. ($45 a day) she didn't have the money. By the time she had saved up $200, they had sold her car - and kept the money.
Imade an attempt to try & help her. posted about it on the city newspaper forum ... heard from one woman who experienced the same thing with her father's construction business in the 1980's, in Mendocino county.
I knew the recently retired city attorney from a swimming group. he retired at about age 55 to teach high school, taking a 50% cut in pay. When i told him about it, and asked him if there was anything he could do about it or if he would talk with the 18 year old woman who had her car stolen twice, he said he would think about it. He also said that one of the reasons he left that job was because he was "tired of defending the city's business".
So, it is a fact. The Santa Rosa Police Department has turned stolen cars into a profit center.
I think what pisses me off more than the crooked cops, is all the people who are aware of the situation & choose to 'look the other way'.
Meanwhile, this one incident has left in its wake a group of people who look at the local cops as a criminal gang. Can you imagine if that 18 year old woman is ever called to serve on the jury in a cop-killer case ?
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Funny, I was just about to say the same thing... about contact with cops
Turns out the police were drunk and they were racist, as well as physically abusive.
The man who was allegedly assaulted by three off-duty Metro Vancouver police officers says he was beaten, robbed and racially abused.
Phil Khan spoke publicly Friday for the first time since he was the incident early Wednesday morning in downtown Vancouver.
Khan, who met the media outside his Surrey home, alleged that he was beaten for seven to eight minutes in an unprovoked assault and that the three assailants all smelled of alcohol.
Khan said he was working at the time, delivering newspapers, and was about to make a delivery to the Hyatt Regency Vancouver hotel on Burrard Street.
A man approached him and asked for directions to Broadway and Cambie Street in Vancouver, he said.
"He says, 'Come here, you idiot,' and then I said, 'Take it easy,'" Khan said.
"I said, 'Let me finish this delivery first, and I will tell you how to go.' Then he kept on saying, 'You come here now.'"
According to Khan, the man then pulled Khan's jacket and started kicking him.
Two other men arrived in a taxi from a pub on nearby Granville Street and jumped into the fight, according to the cab driver who took them to the location outside the Hyatt hotel.
The cabbie, who asked to be identified only by his first name, Yash, told CBC News on Thursday he called police at around 2:30 a.m.
Khan said the three men also racially abused him.
"They are telling me, 'We don't like brown people' and kept saying it and beating me."
He said he was crying out for help but was surprised by what the three men told him.
"They told me, 'We are the police. You don't need help. If you don't behave ... we have a Taser,'" Khan said.
Khan said the men finally stopped beating him after some city workers and a cab driver came to help.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/01/23/bc-beaten-new...
http://www.vancouversun.com/Transcript+Victim+alleged+police+beating+tal...
I do think that police exist to protect us.
At the same time they are oppressors. That isn't such a contradiction as it appears. Hint: who is "us"?
Small time corruption of police is endemic. It doesn't require a police state. Having power over people has an inevitable cognitive process to being- not just 'feeling'- above the law.
But the need to police will be with us still after the revolution. [Long after I'm dead, at the very least.]
Let alone that said need will most definitely be with us as we try to make progressive changes in the here and now.
Please continue the discussion of this incident here:
http://www.rabble.ca/babble/anti-racism-news-and-initiatives/alleged-racist-attack-vancouver-3-duty-cops