Proud Pig wrote:
Mirage wrote:
You know on a different note but still within the sheriff's budget authority I have been asking why Lake County isn't working out a deal with Porter County to house prisoners to ease overcrowding at the county jail but it seems like the sheriff and perhaps the council too are more committed to building a brand new building rather than accept an option that can be implemented overnight. Just another example of why I don't think these political hacks have the best interest of the people at heart.
It's just so easy isn't it Mirage... So now it's the Sheriff's fault (I'm no fan of the Sheriff) that we need more jails because of all the criminals and the broken down justice system. So now we should drive out to Porter County to put people in jail? More criminals being housed by the taxpayers means more jails. Blame the legal system and the politicians, not the Sheriff. But it's easier for you to blame the front man isn't it.Blame police public relations, an over burdened justice system, the prison industrial complex and the BS "tough on crime" (propaganda) legislators they've bought and paid for.
The Prison-industrial complexFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The prison-industrial complex refers to interest groups that represent organizations that do business in correctional facilities, such as prison guard unions, construction companies, and surveillance technology vendors, and to the belief that these actors may be
more concerned with making profits than actually rehabilitating criminals or reducing crime rates.
USA incarceration timeline.
Allegedly, this desire for monetary gain has led to the rise of the Prison industry. Writing for The Atlantic Monthly in December 1998, Eric Schlosser said that
"The 'prison-industrial complex' is not only a set of interest groups and institutions; it is also a state of mind. The lure of big money is corrupting the nation's criminal-justice system, replacing notions of safety and public service with a drive for higher profits. The eagerness of elected officials to pass tough-on-crime legislation — combined with their unwillingness to disclose the external and social costs of these laws — has encouraged all sorts of financial improprieties.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison-industrial_complexProud Pig wrote:
How about blame society, if people didn't break the law they wouldn't be in jail and you wouldn't have to pay for it, but that's life and in this ignorant society it's never going to change.
Yeah, if we all became tea totaling, government/corporate butt kissing, puritans we wouldn't have these problems now, would we?
A policeman's job is only easy in a police state.
I see your day is on the horizon pee pee.
Proud Pig wrote:
You know if the police responded to all the abuse and comments made every day by you people, you'd all have something to complain about.
Yeah, instead they do very little for We the People. They seldom, if ever, respond fast enough to catch a crime in progress. They won't investigate anything below a felony, they don't look for missing children at all (unless they're rich and white) but act like they do. By law, they have absolutely no responsibility to protect you and only, by law, if they witness a crime in progress do they have to react and arrest anyone.
They don't constitutionally have any business bothering
anyone who isn't bothering someone else or their property, but they do it
all the time.
They serve and protect business, raise funds for the municipalities they work in, they write reports, they write "field observation" reports (my opinion of this is they are spying on you and keeping unconstitutional records on innocent citizens if they have no evidence that you have broken any laws), They have become militarized pawns of the federal government.
Proud Pig wrote:
I can just imagine you people in our shoe's trying to do a job that is impossible to do with all the great support by the armchair taxpayers.
You guys made the bed, now sleep in it. You want something done about the public's perception of your profession, then do something to change it because they are right! Many of your departments have become little more a powerful, armed, criminal street thugs with the support of a fascist government. A perfect start would be taking down that Blue Wall of Silence.
Proud Pig wrote:
Mirage, an honest question. Since I've been around on both boards I've noticed somehting about you. This is a straight forward question, can you give a straight answer. What really is your problem with the Police?
With Max it's pretty simple, he's a common thug and a druggy who's had more run-ins with the police than he can recall. It's easier for him to b!tch and complain about the simple law than to follow it. You on the other hand I can't figure out because you tend to "ride the fence" a little.
Common thug? I am hardly common. If there were more of me, there would be less of you. See how
they feel about those who merely stand up to them by flexing the Constitution? I've had more run-ins with the police than I deserve, mostly for merely standing up to them by flexing the Constitution.
It's easier for me to b!tch and complain about the simple law than to follow it? Sorry I stepped on that white man's shadow, looked in his eyes for more than 3 seconds and sat in the front of the bus.
I've been told "If you don't like the law, change it." I have been fighting the BS drug war for years and have found the main opposition is, not the public who can be persuaded with common sense, but those who profit most and whose jobs are made easier and more secure because of it. They shouldn't even be allowed to take part in the discussion.
Your response is that I "b!tch and complain about the simple law." Look Pig, you have forgotten who you work for? Oh yeah, see above.