Man At Bar Ribs Cop 'Aw, You Suck At Darts,' Cop Responds 'I Can Do Whatever I Want,' Pulls Out Gun & Executes Him

No if the fool didn't have a gun two things might have happened. 1. He would have kept his dumbass mouth shut. Or 2 he would have got a well deserved but whipping. Guns (esp. handguns)serve one purpose only to give someone the power of life and death. The more available they are the more they will fall into the hands of stupid people.

you meen all those ex millitary tey hire all the time?

Yep. That's why all the PD's turned into a military nightmare.

If this case goes high-profile, the old-boy network will have to sacrifice this loser or incur the public wrath.

At this point I'm not sure most police forces care about the public wrath...

Their elected bosses do. If handled poorly, this incident could cost the mayor her job!

Otto Ziem was completely unarmed , did not fight , and HE still got beat to death , the cop got put away for it a few days ago .

I think there are multiple answers to that question. One being...you get what you pay for. Another being...about 40% of the population is mentally unstable.

Being selective seems vital to me . I have always thought it had to do with the wars we are in . All those soldiers that WOULD have gotten out by now , may have been better choices for cops , but they are not even in the continent . It just seems to me the quality of cops has taken a nosedive since these pointless wars were started , like it unbalanced the entire culture , not just the economy ... What do you think about it ?

Thinkin you may be onto something. A lot of first responders, especially in smaller, more rural communities, are also in the National Guard or Reserves. A lot of them got called up, leaving too many communities with too few trained (and mentally stable) first responders. So, yeah, more vacancies for the second stringers for cop land.

Add economy that is pushing people to extreme behaviors and cops that see too much domestic trouble in the course of work. Lots of them might be seeing too much at home too.

Throw in decades of hate radio telling a part of the population that they are being put upon simply because others want equal rights. Lots of insecure authoritarians running around in various uniforms, rent-a-cop to real cops. Add a dash of Homeland Security militarization of local law enforcement agencies, thanks neo-con chicken hawks that was simply swell ::dripping with sarcasm:: and things are just gonna explode all over.

One might even wonder about roid rage with some insecure cops. More toxins in our daily life thanks to less safety enforcement and more unsafe imports brought in by greedy multi-nationals; hey things affect people differently and some are more easily poisoned by environmental toxins.

Mix in a container called 'tis the season' and sprinkle will societal failure to provide resources for good mental health.

I swear, TPTB want an unstable and volatile populace killing each other off and keeping the masses so paranoid they don't notice all the real heavy duty economic violence being done to us all.

I think you are point on target, the militarization of our Police force has given the means and how to keep a populace at check. Good one, your are figuring it out. Merry Xmas dear Lady!

Excellent, all part of the problem we have created.

I live is a small community and That is what it looks like to me too .

Merry xmas to you too ! Got to go stuff some stockings here in a minuet ...

I think you're spot on correct with this one, just one more thing I thought of, I recently heard a story off NPR, that many join the military as a much easier route to becoming a cop in their off-duty time, bearing in mind that many of our mercenaries who return from active duty are often not exactly "stable" but easily qualify for being hired as police due to their military background, hence, more and more of the police force is becoming paramilitary, and many of those are simply not stable.

Good post...I think the most important thing you touched on was the "...societal failure to provide rseources for good mental health." Since states began closing mental institutions back in the sixties because they were seen as inhumane and too great an expense for state budgets, mental care in this country has continued to deteriorate until we have a nearly non-existant public mental health system in this country...

Most Americans get there mental health information from show biz quacks like Dr Phil and Dr Drew...while the real mental problems are everywhere: in our work places; on the streets in various forms including the homeless; in our schools (students, teachers, employees) ; in colleges, churches etc. MDs are pushing more and more mind altering drugs to a growing population of people who sufer everything from mild depression to various phycoses and the plethora of personality disorders...

Many of the mentally ill in this country have nowhere to turn when they find themselves in crisis because there are no facilities for them...and some of them end up in positions of power and authority which they are ill-equipped to handle...

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