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badtoworse

(5,957 posts)

11. No police force is perfect

Reply to sabrina 1 (Reply #8)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 06:56 PM

Feb 2012

I've lived and worked in the New York City area my entire life and am quite familiar with the NYPD. They have a very tough job to do and they do it exceptionally well. I think they are the best in the country, maybe the world.

In any case, how would a civilian police force differ from what we have now?

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Wall Street’s Secret Spy Center, Run for the 1% by NYPD [View all] G_j Feb 2012 OP

And that's the way it is. raouldukelives Feb 2012 #1

There is nothing wrong with this and your point about mortgage fraud is irrelevant badtoworse Feb 2012 #2

except that the NYPD G_j Feb 2012 #3

I don't see what one has to do with the other. badtoworse Feb 2012 #4

NYPD, like all our other institutions, working for Wall Street. I think it's time to let Wall sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #5

So who would assume responsibility for law enforcement? badtoworse Feb 2012 #6

Well, we need a police force but we need a civilian police force. The NYPD is not a sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #8

No police force is perfect badtoworse Feb 2012 #11

I'm quite familiar with them also. And I do not agree with your assessment. sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #12

I don't think we're going to find much common ground here badtoworse Feb 2012 #13

a few bad apples arrested 1,800, many pre-emptively, during the R. convention, or was it a mistake? G_j Feb 2012 #14

The directions to do that almost certainly came from the Mayor's office badtoworse Feb 2012 #15

certainly G_j Feb 2012 #16

I never understood the love affair and deference given to LEO's. Dawson Leery Feb 2012 #7

Big Bank J.P. Morgan gave 4.6 million to NYPD near the time NYPD were brutalizing Occupy citizens T S Justly Feb 2012 #9

ttt Blue_Tires Feb 2012 #10