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antithesis
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Posted 11:30 am, 04/23/2021
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Despite the obvious challenges, we need good cops and good teachers of all genders, races, and backgrounds. What will Really help the situation is to get more education for everyone, especially cops.
That doesn't change the social issue where an accusation without proof has just as much weight as a video, but I agree with what you're saying. Cops currently get 16 weeks of training, and much of that is in combat training. Very little of it has to do with mental health issues.
One of the major problems is that the average pay in NC for a regular cop is $35,000:
If being a cop required a 2 or 4 year degree, that salary would have to almost double! And we just don't have the money for that.
Which leads us back to the Defund the Police movement... get rid of some of the lower paid cops with little or no education, and replace them with existing mental health professionals.
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antithesis
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Posted 11:22 am, 04/23/2021
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Albert, you're confusing two very separate issues.
The other thread that Foxy started was about using rubber bullets instead of live ammo, and I think she made a great point. Statistically, cops kill close to 1,000 people a year, while less than 50 cops a year are killed while on duty. Rubber bullets seem to be just as effective as live ammo with a much better chance of survival (although not a 100% chance), so if we can save 900+ lives a year with the switch then I fail to see the problem.
In comparison, this thread is about the problems of social outrage by people with no real idea of what's going on. We're in a time where just the suggestion of something inappropriate is enough to get someone fired, or even arrested!
Look at Johnny Depp... lost his jobs, career is all but destroyed, all because his abusive wife decided to lie.
Look at Lisa Alexander... she and her husband both lost their jobs and were made fun of all over the internet, because they had the audacity to ask a non-white man if he had permission to vandalize a neighbor's house.
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Foxnose
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Posted 4:49 am, 04/23/2021
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George Floyd's behavior is not an isolated incident either. I think if you will be honest you will admit that as fleeing and resistance has increased along with assaults on police officers we have seen cops take a more defensive and aggressive posture. There is no more systematic racism than there is systematic anarchy. Races have never been more divided than they are right now, what has changed?
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Bestill
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Posted 12:00 am, 04/23/2021
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ht
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Posted 11:56 pm, 04/22/2021
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Despite the obvious challenges, we need good cops and good teachers of all genders, races, and backgrounds. What will Really help the situation is to get more education for everyone, especially cops. The system is the problem. They need more support and education, as many police officers in our nation are in potentially dangerous situations and may not get the resources to handle mental health issues or how to talk people down. George Floyd could have been handled SO Much Differently- Chauvin did not need to kneel on him like that- the truly sad thing is that this is not an isolated situation.
Totally agree with you here, Cajahah. People need to be kind to each other.
Cajahah | Posted 7:34 pm, 04/22/2021 | This is a bad post.
This could apply to any retail manager.
Be a human with morals and you won't have problems.
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Albert Pike
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Posted 8:34 pm, 04/22/2021
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It's weird that in the "Unpopular Opinion" thread, antithesis points out dangers that police officers face (not just the white cops either),
"I'm just going to say it... if you are a male teacher or a white cop, you are insane. It's not a question of if you will at some point get in trouble, it's a question of when.
It doesn't even have to be true. We are in a time of society that a rumor or accusation has just as much power (if not more) than reality."
And talks about how relatively safe the career is, it's obvious police office face dangers everyday and not just dangers that can lead to injury or death...talk about having your head in up your arse.
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antithesis
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Posted 7:51 pm, 04/22/2021
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Be a human with morals and you won't have problems.
Until you give the wrong kid a bad grade, and they decide to tell people you molested them...
Or give the wrong person a ticket, and they decide to tell everyone that you used racist slurs while doing it...
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Cajahah
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Posted 7:34 pm, 04/22/2021
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This is a bad post.
This could apply to any retail manager.
Be a human with morals and you won't have problems.
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shouldawouldacoulda
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Posted 6:04 pm, 04/22/2021
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Something tells me there were lots of white police officers and male teachers who were able to make it through the day unscathed...
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antithesis
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Posted 1:11 pm, 04/22/2021
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Well, you're talking about taking a city hostage... aka, terrorism.
That's a little different from suggesting that white cops should be afraid to do their jobs for fear of social repercussions.
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Foxnose
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Posted 7:32 am, 04/22/2021
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If I was a cop in any of the liberal cesspools, I would encourage all law enforcement to stack their badges in the street and start making solar panels with the miners. Let the "hood" make earrings, nose hooks and bling out of them. Lay the phone off the hook, park the cars, refuse to respond to emergency calls and see how long it would take for them to either change their minds or destroy each other.
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antithesis
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Posted 11:58 pm, 04/15/2021
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Are you so sure that he did, though? She admitted that she was the one to beat him:
See, that's actually a great example... she accused him of beating her, but all of the evidence shows that she was the abuser. Yet his career is more or less over, called "unhirable" and "radioactive" by studio execs.
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[email protected]
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Posted 8:39 pm, 04/15/2021
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You know whats funny though... You could tell my wife until you were blue in the face Johnny Depp beat the snot out of his wife.
Dark Shadows would still go in the DVD player if the internet was out.
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168Amax
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Posted 2:31 pm, 04/15/2021
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Agreed Anthi 
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antithesis
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Posted 2:30 pm, 04/15/2021
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Source, Connie? I remember false accusations of sexual misconduct my whole life. I suspect that it got a lot worse with the increased use of social media.
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CONRAD
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Posted 2:07 pm, 04/15/2021
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All of this brought to us by the demonRat's mediadogs.
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skeptic
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Posted 2:02 pm, 04/15/2021
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You are more than likely on camera if you are around me.
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antithesis
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Posted 1:56 pm, 04/15/2021
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I didn't even think about commercial drivers, but you're right... I wouldn't do that, either. Uber, Lyft, taxis, driving a bus, food delivery... literally any situation where you might be alone with another person. Or could even be accused of being alone with them, even if you never actually were.
I know that there have been a lot of futuristic movies showing people livestreaming every minute of their lives. I know that the moral of those stories has always been that it's a bad thing, but I think we're at a point in society where it might not be such a bad idea! If not livestreaming, at least recording it somewhere private so that it can be accessed when necessary.
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skeptic
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Posted 1:51 pm, 04/15/2021
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That's two professions I would avoid like the plague. I will not give a woman a ride. I will not meet in a closed office. I'm to the point that If I'm at a recycling center, I stay in my car if there is a woman dumping her recycling until she finishes. For one, it's to easy to accidentally bump into someone. For two, anything can be said. So I just avoid those situations all together.
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