prideandfall
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in a time when police shootings are rampant, to the point where you can get a random person killed via SWATing them, it's refreshing to see that some departments are taking it seriously to curtail excess and corruption in order to restore the public trust.
this is definitely the sort of thing that police departments should be focused on, instead of worrying about whether or not citizens are being murdered here and there.
(this is scathing sarcasm btw, i can't think of any other way to express my disgust at this)
http://kutv.com/news/local/slc-park...-for-taking-kickbacks-for-not-writing-tickets
it's interesting to self-examine my intellectual response to this vs. my emotional response to this.
because on the one hand... okay, that's clear police corruption and an example of officers taking bribes to turn a blind eye to enforcing laws on certain people.
but the fact that 4 people were immediately fired over it when you have officers gunning down citizens left and right is a painful sting to my sense of morality and hypocrisy, to the point where it makes me want to excuse this event simply in protest against the larger violations being done that get so little institutional response.
anyways it's something that got me thinking quite a bit today, so sharing the story.
this is definitely the sort of thing that police departments should be focused on, instead of worrying about whether or not citizens are being murdered here and there.
(this is scathing sarcasm btw, i can't think of any other way to express my disgust at this)
http://kutv.com/news/local/slc-park...-for-taking-kickbacks-for-not-writing-tickets
it's interesting to self-examine my intellectual response to this vs. my emotional response to this.
because on the one hand... okay, that's clear police corruption and an example of officers taking bribes to turn a blind eye to enforcing laws on certain people.
but the fact that 4 people were immediately fired over it when you have officers gunning down citizens left and right is a painful sting to my sense of morality and hypocrisy, to the point where it makes me want to excuse this event simply in protest against the larger violations being done that get so little institutional response.
anyways it's something that got me thinking quite a bit today, so sharing the story.