My computer's acting spastic tonight, or I'd have been here with the snark shipment sooner.Wait, where are all the "we used to hang horse thieves" folks from threads about auto thefts?
"They used to hang horse thieves, didn't they?"
My computer's acting spastic tonight, or I'd have been here with the snark shipment sooner.
"They used to hang horse thieves, didn't they?"
You're welcome.
Should we start a pool?
I'll take paid suspension for the cop who tried for a field goal with the perps nut sack.
It's been a bad week for LE.
Week?
It blows my mind how the scum of INGO think it is such a joke when a guy is almost beat to death by cops no less...
thats the pothead thread
Exactly. I saw a figure the other day, (not entirely sure of the numbers, but they could well be right) that the police in the US had killed more people in March than were killed by police in the UK in the last hundred years. That's a startling accusation, if true. Way too many people getting shot by the police in this country. And no-one keeps track of the beatings, unless a third party catches them on video.
Exactly. I saw a figure the other day, (not entirely sure of the numbers, but they could well be right) that the police in the US had killed more people in March than were killed by police in the UK in the last hundred years. That's a startling accusation, if true. Way too many people getting shot by the police in this country. And no-one keeps track of the beatings, unless a third party catches them on video.
It blows my mind how the scum of INGO think it is such a joke when a guy is almost beat to death by cops no less...
Alternate theory: The "scum of INGO" thinks its a joke that a few posters repeatedly find every incident of police misbehavior they can find and post it up. The threads themselves become the target of jokes, not the event that led to the posting.
I would like to read that.
Really, not being a jerk.
or "scum of INGO"
I wonder if if they take population into account.
or compare cop killings vs civilians killed by cops by population
Since 1945, only 256 officers have been shot (shot, not killed) in Britain. So if one is to say that US Officers are more violent than their British counterparts, it would also be fair to say the US citizens are more violent than their counterparts, as well.
Alternate theory: The "scum of INGO" thinks its a joke that a few posters repeatedly find every incident of police misbehavior they can find and post it up. The threads themselves become the target of jokes, not the event that led to the posting. How well would it be received if I posted every single incident of non-police gun owners behaving badly and then had a hand full of people I could count on to pile on and make it seem endemic? Perhaps it would get tiresome to gunowners here fairly quickly? We can test it. Two accidental discharges in the past two days resulting in injury. I've got plenty of grist for the mill, and I don't even need to go further than county wide. I choose not to post such incidents unless there is something broader to be learned from them, though, nor do I point to them as part of a larger pattern or disparage gunowners at large.
I'm not so sure of that. The violent crime rates in GB are reasonably high. On a per capita basis they may well be equal to the US in terms of violent crime (as usual the per 100K rate). Homicides are much lower than the US, though, (availability of weaponry is certainly a factor). Sadly, the rate of officers shot this year, in the US, seems to be up a bit, so far. Of note though is that of those US officers shot this year, many, if not most of them (the last time I looked) had been shot by fellow officers, (either in the course of training or ND's or in the commission of a crime or standoff). The sheer volume of police involved shootings in the US though is becoming troublesome. As is the shooting of unarmed people, which is either being reported more or is becoming more commonplace.