Marsupialized wrote:Andrew. wrote:There are lots and lots of good men and women who are cops. And cops do lots and lots of good things.
Why do people keep saying this?
Everyone just assumes there must be good people who are cops and they must be out there doing good things.
There are not and they do not, none and never.
This is a gross generalization and a bullshit one. My dad works with cops and I've actually been helped out by the police a couple of times. When a man high on something cheaper than meth is veering dangerously towards violence while shouting at a nun while you're working at a church-run thrift store downtown and a cop escorts the man away from the premises, trust me, it's helpful. It's a good thing. Maybe not as good a thing as walking him into rehab or something but I'm fairly glad it happened anyways.
Another gross generalization is that those evil hippies were hurling stuff en masse at the cops who were just there because they got called there. At a time when the attitude towards hippies was to conflate them with communism and evil, I seriously doubt that every cop who joined the force was a decent guy. Like today, a fair number of them probably had severe superiority complexes and other attitude problems that led them to despise any threat to their authority. Hippies certainly fall under that category. Never mind that those in charge basically gave them free rein to mace, club and arrest whoever they saw fit. Arguing otherwise would basically be trying to argue that the Nixon government wasn't tremendously corrupt.
A number of the cops were probably just there because it was their job and hated it. A number of hippies weren't throwing stuff but instead were putting flowers in guns and singing "Kumbaya" and doing other noted hippie activities.
There are shitty people everywhere, guys, and there are good people everywhere. This shouldn't even be a discussion! There are more important things being said in this thread, like this:
John George Peppers wrote:bassness wrote:We will never again see people rise up for what they believe is right like the people from these times.
I hope you're wrong, but I happen to think you're right.