>If a cop behaved like this in New Zealand his victim could make real >trouble for him. There is NO excuse for a cop to throw his weight >around, displaying a bad attitude. If he didn't get it the night >before, that is HIS problem; he has no right to muck the public >around. Who do these boy-wonders think they are? They are PUBLIC >SERVANTS. They are there to serve YOU. Not the other way around. It's >time they were reminded of that. The news media here hypes all bad news of criminals doing bad things. This tends to create fear in the general populace, which then tends to put up with being bullied around. The logic seems to be "They're just doing their job." (For the past decade or so, the FBI's own crime statistics show almost all violent crimes in the US have actually decreased. Yet a study has shown that the media's coverage of violent crimes has increased by 400 percent over the same period. Go figure. Dave -- Dave Carpenter Whatever you wish for me, May you have twice as much. "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." -- Arthur C. Clarke |
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