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Chicago Cop Poses As Pizza Driver, Kills Robber

42 by clocker bob_Archive
jcamanei wrote:
I don't need you or anybody else to sympathize with my opinion of cops.
You have to accept that based on your experiences, your opinions and perceptions are skewed as well.


Yeah, but I know my experiences. I don't know yours. Like I said, I'm reading if you want to describe them. And if they're something like "some cop put drugs on me and I spent a night in county because of that", I might also never want to hear about 'good cops', either, if that was my experience.

Chicago Cop Poses As Pizza Driver, Kills Robber

43 by connor_Archive
DrAwkward wrote:No one mentioned this yet:

Last summer, a 21-year-old UW-Milwaukee student was shot to death about a block from my house while he was delivering a tasty Jimmy John's sub to someone. He was shot by some jerkoff kid trying to rob him.

On top of that, i can name about a dozen friends of mine who have been mugged in the same general area. Some of those friends have said "fuck this" and started a neighborhood bar-time walking program. I walked with them the first night, and will again in the future. Awesome.

Frankly, a lot of us are sick of this shit happening in our otherwise lovely neighborhood (yes, i'm talking about Riverwest, fellow Milwaukeeans, as if you couldn't guess). No, i don't think the solution is "then move," because fuck if i'm living in fear.

My point? Had this happened in Riverwest--some undercover cop shooting and killing a kid trying to rob him--i would feel a little bad that someone had to die. No one should take too much pleasure, if any, in death. However, that said, i wouldn't cry very much either.

We here are civilized people and know that robbing people is wrong. For some reason, there are people who don't understand this, despite the kid who shot the Jimmy John's driver being arrested (if i recall correctly) and held accountable. If something like this is necessary to get the fucking message across that you don't fucking rob people, well, i'm sad that it had to come to such extreme methods, but at the same time, tough shit. Don't play with guns unless you're prepared to take a bullet.

Now, in the case of this cop shooting a kid who was robbing him? Investigate it. Have an inquiry. I think that any time a cop kills someone in the line of duty, there needs to be oversight to ensure there was no other recourse. If the cop did his job, an inquiry will confirm this. And then if he is exonerated, well done officer. Yours is a hard job that i wouldn't want, and i'm glad you performed it well.

I agree with all of this. Particularly:

Don't play with guns unless you're prepared to take a bullet.

I am sympathetic to a dumbass kid who feels the need to steal. But Christ, do it without a fucking gun. You bring a gun into the mix, well shit man, if that thing's being pointed at someone that person has no idea if you're actually willing to use it or not! And I don't think many people are willing to wait around and find out.

Anyways, salut Dr. Awkward!

I'd also like to point out that I have been lucky enough to have met many "good" cops. Sure, I've dealt with some dickheads but that's all they were: pedantic dickheads. But then again, I'm white.

In my experience, if you treat cops with courtesy and respect, they'll do the same. Sometimes such polite behavior will even get you off the hook.

It's a tough fucking job. I'd never do it so I'm pretty happy that there are people out there who will.

Stories of dudes being shot while working at a convenience store or on a pizza route just fucking disgust me. I can't even watch that show "The First 48 Hours" because that's basically ever single case: a hardworking guy with a family, usually a recent immigrant, being shot to death or beaten to death for just a few bucks. Any kid that thinks a human life is worth $200 is a piece of absolute shit.
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