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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
I never intended this to be about gun rights. My intention in the original post was to hopefully show people that their law enforcment and judicial branches of their governments are not being held accountable for either their serious lapses in judgement, nor are they being held accountable for illegalities in their positions of authority......
Compare this with the numerous other incidents i've posted about and been heavily reprimanded by most of the posters on this board about how I should give LEOs a break because they deal with the worst of society and the judges and politicians who usually clear said officers of all wrongdoing unless it's politically detrimental and I find myself actually supremely happy that none of you are my neighbors, friends, or family because I don't think I could depend upon a single one of you if I ever found myself on the prosecutorial end of a government that only serves its self interests instead of the interests they were originally intended for.
People 'pooh pooh' the notion that we are headed for a police state when I make the claim, followed up by the facts of the actual incident, and I find myself almost ashamed in thinking that YOU people actually just need to personally experience the issue first hand. I almost hate you for that.
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You ignore the fact that the reviews of police shootings and excessive force charges are reviewed by IADs or civilian review boards and many have resulted in convictions of police officers.
In addtion, the US DoJ Civil Rights Division has the legal authority to review excessive use cases and has acted on many:
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The Civil Rights Division is committed to the vigorous enforcement of every federal criminal civil rights statute, such as those laws that prohibit the willful use of excessive force or other acts of misconduct by law enforcement officials. The Department of Justice has compiled a significant record on criminal civil rights prosecutions in the last six years. Since fiscal year 2001, the Department has convicted 50 percent more defendants for excessive force and official misconduct than in the proceeding six years.
(yes, the Bush DOJ is doing something right!)
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2006/Oct...6_crt_715.html
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As someone suggested earlier, you want a perfect, error-free law enforcement system and if you cant have that, it seems you want vigilantism.
I dont expect the former and I shudder at the thought of the latter.