Maybe because the power they get from beating people without accountability is one of the perks of their jobs. They're super power hungry and know that even the slightest amount of oversight will show that the breadth of corruption is much deeper than anyone though
I think the only people who would say "yes, I want more oversight and accountability" are those who weren't seeking power in the first place, having it thrust upon them by circumstance and fully understanding the responsibility they bear, and maybe a little horrified at the potential for abuse.
He took the knee, to protest the train wreck of criminal justice. He was still respecting the flag.
He wasn’t stopping the game, he wasn’t delaying anything. He did it at the same time as everyone else.
All he did was a different position to respect the flag, while also protesting the treatment of PoC in America.
If we want to talk about disrespecting the flag then we need to talk about those football ceremonies with the flag dragged horizontally across the field, or flag themed clothing and costumes, or advertising that uses the flag. Because those are explicitly disrespectful, and a violation of the flag code (4USC section 1)
oh yeah. The confederate flag is by definition the flag of treason. If you are flying or using the confederate flag then you're literally pro-treason. Well, that and slavery.
My dad was a marine and you've got my respect. But Kaepernick's uniform doesn't mean what yours does. He's a civilian entertainer, and kneeling was an exercise of his right to free speech.
The irony I see is that this was the very definition of peaceful protest. When people rally to protest, cops show up in force. When a single dude takes a knee, that's too much for them to bear? Irony, indeed.
This week's reporting is documentation of the abuses that he was protesting. Have you seen it? The police have all the trappings of the military, with none of the discipline. I almost think we'd be better off if y'all were standing by at these protests, because you at least understand and follow rules of engagement.
Politicians and police say that peaceful protest is tolerated, but not for Kaepernick. And not for, unfortunately, thousands of peaceful protesters, medics, journalists, legal observers and, goddammit, those essential workers going about their legal business -- all who were kettled, beaten, shot, and gassed.
because the incentives for a union is to maximize the compensation and privileges for their members not to curtail their own behavior. this is why you hear stories about union shops not firing employees that show up drunk and cause accident because it would cost more to fight the union than to deal with it.
There are other considerations as well. No community likes being reformed by others. Nobody likes being told to “be more like us” by others who (maybe) don’t understand the issues at hand.
For sure, there is entrenched power, but there are other issues like “what am I allowed to do when a suspect high on PCP attacks me? I can no longer use a choke hold, so I guess I have to use my gun. What if it’s crowded?”
Here are a few glaring problems that people have admitted need(ed|s) fixing that resist outside dictating:
* Removal of Saddam Hussein
* Improving inner city schools
* Removal of children from a household
* Endorcement of civil rights in the south
In all cases, there are/were people on the inside who agree the thing must be done, but objected to outsiders doing it because
* it made them feel annexed
* it made them feel like they would be judged poorly on everything else
* they suspected they would be punished forever
* they questioned the real motives for the intervention
* they didn’t trust the intervention to go all the way. If the greater power left part way through, the local leaders would extract revenge.
* ...
The fact that the police is a community which is “other” than us is the problem, though. This is never going to be solved as long as there’s an external group with power over us which rejects accountability.
Why are unions blocking reform? - I think is a slightly more appropriate question. If you can answer that question I think you can then add the police prefix to specify why they are different than other unions.
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He wasn’t stopping the game, he wasn’t delaying anything. He did it at the same time as everyone else.
All he did was a different position to respect the flag, while also protesting the treatment of PoC in America.
If we want to talk about disrespecting the flag then we need to talk about those football ceremonies with the flag dragged horizontally across the field, or flag themed clothing and costumes, or advertising that uses the flag. Because those are explicitly disrespectful, and a violation of the flag code (4USC section 1)
The irony I see is that this was the very definition of peaceful protest. When people rally to protest, cops show up in force. When a single dude takes a knee, that's too much for them to bear? Irony, indeed.
This week's reporting is documentation of the abuses that he was protesting. Have you seen it? The police have all the trappings of the military, with none of the discipline. I almost think we'd be better off if y'all were standing by at these protests, because you at least understand and follow rules of engagement.
Politicians and police say that peaceful protest is tolerated, but not for Kaepernick. And not for, unfortunately, thousands of peaceful protesters, medics, journalists, legal observers and, goddammit, those essential workers going about their legal business -- all who were kettled, beaten, shot, and gassed.
For sure, there is entrenched power, but there are other issues like “what am I allowed to do when a suspect high on PCP attacks me? I can no longer use a choke hold, so I guess I have to use my gun. What if it’s crowded?”
Here are a few glaring problems that people have admitted need(ed|s) fixing that resist outside dictating: * Removal of Saddam Hussein * Improving inner city schools * Removal of children from a household * Endorcement of civil rights in the south
In all cases, there are/were people on the inside who agree the thing must be done, but objected to outsiders doing it because * it made them feel annexed * it made them feel like they would be judged poorly on everything else * they suspected they would be punished forever * they questioned the real motives for the intervention * they didn’t trust the intervention to go all the way. If the greater power left part way through, the local leaders would extract revenge. * ...