Do you trust your local law enforcement group? POLL

[dArKeR]

The problems within the Toronto police force prompt us to ask: Do you trust your local law enforcement group?



No
1570 votes  
(55 %)


Yes
1304 votes  
(45 %)


Total Votes: 2874

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I couldn't even imagine this poll being taken in our fascist regime.

[hexola]

1. Local - mmm...yes...but that's just 3 guys...

State Police - absolutely not!

[richmwill]

2. Agreed

I'll agree with you. Do I trust the NYPD and our State Police? Absolutely not. But during my recent car accident, I have to say that the local police who came to the scene were wonderful- they calmed me down, made me feel better, talked very nice, set up the tow-truck to come out for my car, they were just very cool.

[durutti]

3. Absolutely Not

Mostly since I've experienced their abuse of power firsthand.

[MrSlayer]

4. I do. Watch this film clip.

My Dad was a cop for 30 years and while there are some baddies in every bunch I know most of them are great people trying to make a positive difference. If you do the right thing you shouldn't have any problems with the cops. Chris Rock says it best in this clip.

http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=2458063

[bread_and_roses]

17. "If you do the right thing ...

...you shouldn't have any problems with the cops." I don't think so. Especially if you are not white, if you're poor, if you are driving an old beater. I know of a three person police station where, after picking up a guy and arresting him for two joints, they took his money (cashed paycheck, the guy is a laborer) and laughed as they told him they were confiscating it as "drug money." This sort of story could be told thousands of times across the land. Not to mention real abuses, which hardly a month goes by without a story about somewhere.

Sure, there are some decent cops. But until and unless there is better training, better pay (much better pay), an ethic of real respect for civil liberties, AND decriminalization to end the insane Drug "War" which makes corruption so lucrative, we are going to have a police force that cannot be trusted.

[maggrwaggr]

5. I live on LA. That should say it all

LAPD -- well, they have a national reputation. Rodney King for starters.

LA County Sheriff's deputies are even worse. Much worse. They pay out millions a year in lawsuits for beating people up and such.

Santa Monica PD, where I live precisely, isn't much better as far as I can tell. My only first hand experience with them has been pretty godawful.

[ForrestGump]

10. Never had problems in most communities I've lived in or visited

But LAPD does have a deserved reputation, so I wouldn't exactly say I'd TRUST them...wouldn't get especially paranoid about them, either, though, and I've met some good ones over the years.

[G_j]

6. no

far too much brutality against peaceful protesters in the last year
(Asheville NC)
lots of bad feelings

[huellewig]

7. NO..

I saw those fuckers mace a dad holding his baby. This was at a protest of Dick Cheney visiting Portland. My roommate heard the cops saying it was time to end "this". Then they moved in. In normal situations I think the cops are OK. Just not when dealing with large crowds.

[bullimiami]

8. you saw our local law enforcement

at the ftaa protests.

enough said!

[TheWizardOfMudd]

9. Just watch one episode of "Cops"

They're all a bunch of stupid, lying animals.

[ForrestGump]

11. Sounds more like the 'perps,' if you're going to generalize

[TheWizardOfMudd]

12. Perps don't have badges

But if they did, things would not be much different.

[slaveplanet]

13. not since

they started calling themselves "law enforcement"-

they were fine when they were just "peace officers"

[doni_georgia]

14. Not really

One local sheriff's deputy lives up the road from me. He has his barn painted in Rebel Flag motif, every single version of the Confederate flag flying on an illuminated lightpole in front of his house, a statue of RE Lee on his lawn, and at Christmas he decorates his house in xmas lights in the design of the stars and bars - need I say more?

[Piperay]

15. NO...I sure don't

one time the city police here were hassling my brother because they said he didn't "look like the norm" :wtf:?!? My brother was doing yard work around the side of the house, what should he have been wearing a tuxedo or a suit! Geesh, the cops in this city are notorious for being racist and while we are both WASP (of mostly Norwegian heritage but also some Irish and Native American) we both have dark hair etc. and are sometimes mistaken for Hispanic. I KNOW what these cops were thinking and insinuating, it really pisses me off!

[pnb]

16. Depends on the police

NYS police force get a rousing "HELL NO" as far as trust goes...ditto for Nassau County police. Locals on LI are not bad and the police in Georgia seem pretty good.