The sad state of things to come. Decadent, spoiled brats who think they can do what they want.

Then there's the issue of the incredable rise in police violence too.

What a tool. Who thinks they can run over a policeman and that's ok?

Are there any studies you can cite documenting the "issue of the incredable (sic) rise in police violence"?
>> ^Buck:

Then there's the issue of the incredable rise in police violence too.

I bet a ticket doesn't look so bad anymore.

Good, but needed a punch-line, like the girlfriend doesn't drive stick and totally grinds the gears as she tries to pull away.

Also, why didn't they impound the car? Seems at that point they should have taken it into "evidence."

@ulysses1904
http://www.copblock.org/2841/police-brutality-statistics/

Sorry there criminal justice professor, no need to site anything but internet sources, you have eyes and everyone has cell phones to record, you can see the rage in the faces of the majority of cops. They pump the shit into homes 24/7, 365 to let us all know that crime is on the rise and more cops with better weapons are needed.

The violence may continue to rise given that the pool of recruits becomes less intelligent (a result of being raised in a society in decline) and the pool of qualified applicants include more inner-city youths, PTSD victims returning home from fucking around the globe playing war games, etc...

Police organizations will always recruit the dregs as well as the capable, but more punks and thugs everyday become law enforcement...Goes with the territory as it were, I am convinced that to perform your duties as a Police officer you have to compromise integrity and ethics at some point or you will not make the final cut. The job has become tainted.

In one possible future which includes these less-than-ethical thugs as cops, there may only be a few types of citizens:
Ultra Wealthy
Wage slaves
Police,Military, Prison personnel, EMT, and other Government employees

Fake limp, but I still think the cop had every right to react the way he did.

I notice the girl isn't in their faces. I respect a woman who realizes her boyfriend is a douchebag and she's only in it for the bling.

The cop is a fucking liar!
If he actually "run over" the pig's foot you would see the car move up and down, it would've traveled further forward and the pig would've screamed much louder and faster. Here you see a delayed reaction as he's trying to think how to act.
This liar cop just didn't like that the guy was moving forward and decided to do what soccer/football players do by faking nothing into something huge.
That pig cop should be suspended for abuse of power!

They're both idiots.

Don't start driving your car away while you're being written a ticket, you fucking idiot.

Don't put your foot under a moving car's tire, you fucking idiot.

The cop wanted him to run over his foot. He purposely shifted his foot slightly towards the front of the vehicle, knowing full well the driver would pull forward. A person who was trying to defuse the situation would have stood completely in front of the vehicle, or at least said something to the driver along the lines of "turn off the vehicle."

But cops are in law enFORCEment. They aren't hired to know the law, just to enforce stuff. So it would stand to reason that he would attempt to escalate the situation to one in which he could utilize the methods for which he is gainfully employed.

Friends don't let friends be cops.

Oh okay, no fact-checking required. All I have to do is watch videos on the internet and I'll "see the rage in the faces of the MAJORITY of cops" (my emphasis). So by your logic if I saw one internet video last week of police brutality and then I see two videos this week of police brutality that means that incidences of brutality have doubled, right?

Try reading Barry Glassner's "The Culture of Fear", it talks about how the media and people in general like to see trends where there may not necessarily be any. And of course some drama-llama will misinterpret what I'm saying and assume I'm all for a "police state" and I deny the existence of police brutality or I condone it, yak yak yak. The usual Internet Debate Club horseshit.

So when the original poster makes reference to the INCREDIBLE rise of police brutality I say cite me some sources other than viral videos and protest sign slogans.

Also next time include a link to police misconduct stats that look like they were done by someone that went to a university, not USA Today.
>> ^chingalera:

@ulysses1904
http://www.copblock.org/2841/police-brutality-statistics/
Sorry there criminal justice professor, no need to site anything but internet sources, you have eyes and everyone has cell phones to record, you can see the rage in the faces of the majority of cops. They pump the shit into homes 24/7, 365 to let us all know that crime is on the rise and more cops with better weapons are needed.

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@ulysses1904

Steven Pinker showed global violence has plummeted to a fraction of the historical norm, but we think we live in violent times because of easy access media.

That's the same reason why we think police brutality today isn't merely a fraction of the historical norm.

That doesn't mean don't work to improve law enforcement, but it does mean be glad we live in such comparatively easy and peaceful times.

Whether the cop was faking is irrelevant. Accept the ticket and move on.

Polices officers do not decide if you are guilty or not. They only charge you with the crime and you have the chance to claim innocence and show evidence at trial. When I get pulled over I accept the ticket with minimal disagreement then successfully win most of my traffic cases (through a Trial by Written Declaration).

Found an article with a little more info: Your text to link...

>> ^mxxcon:

The cop is a fucking liar!
If he actually "run over" the pig's foot you would see the car move up and down, it would've traveled further forward and the pig would've screamed much louder and faster. Here you see a delayed reaction as he's trying to think how to act.
This liar cop just didn't like that the guy was moving forward and decided to do what soccer/football players do by faking nothing into something huge.
That pig cop should be suspended for abuse of power!


the car would move up no more than it would on a rock. It probably just went over the tip and applied pressure to his toes. Maybe pressed in the nail on his big toe enough so he knows he's prolly bleeding but doesn't need an ambulance.

he DID position himself in a way so that he would appear in front or "to close" to the car so that the guy wouldn't drive away. Clearly the driver was too stupid to know he could cause bodily harm and now adds an assaulted police officer charge to the ticket. Well done. Frankly I didn't see nearly as much police brutality as I should have. he clearly did not care if he ran over the police officers foot and was not listening to him even after the fact. I would have dragged him out and put said foot up his ass and then given him the opportunity to drive over said foot again.

I don't know. I'm confused at what happened here. Was he in a valet zone?

When he goes to get in his car he looks right at the cop says something. The cop never looks up but seems to say something. He then gets in his car and turns it on. Cop ignores engine sound, cop ignores moving car.

Guy is an idiot for not just taking the ticket. Cop is an idiot for letting his foot get runover. No ticket you can issue is worth getting your foot runover.

There are tools who drive Ferraris and tools who have a beat up Ford Taurus etc...

All that said traffic cops are jerks out on a mission to drum up revenue. I've rarely been the victim (crazy vigilant about it) but see all kinds of people get tickets in Chicago (or towed) that are VERY bad calls by the cops.

I calculate that to be about 640 lb on his foot...that might hurt a bit if he doesn't have proper boots.

THIS JUST IN.

>> ^Sniper007:

The cop wanted him to run over his foot. He purposely shifted his foot slightly towards the front of the vehicle, knowing full well the driver would pull forward. A person who was trying to defuse the situation would have stood completely in front of the vehicle, or at least said something to the driver along the lines of "turn off the vehicle."



in short, this.

That said, i don't doubt the driver is an asshat, but it's a pretty dick move on the cops part.

Cop purposely put his foot there. He's the idiot. How the hell is the driver supposed to see what's directly in front of his tire? And then choosing to go ballistic as if the guy meant do do it. Now he'll probably be charged with assaulting a police officer or some bullshit. Driver is a douchebag, but that ain't illegal.

Does your foot hurt, pig? Good.

>> ^ulysses1904:

Are there any studies you can cite documenting the "issue of the incredable (sic) rise in police violence"?
>> ^Buck:
Then there's the issue of the incredable rise in police violence too.



Ya if you haven't seen the rise first hand it's hard to show. A canadian cop was fired recently over a taser incident where he killed someone....in youtube search police shootings. I saw one where the perp was shot IN THE BACK as he ran. Another where a cop's pistol went off accidently and he shot a kid in the head (ok that might have been an accident) Also start looking at MAINSTREAM media, there's lots there on the police state. Also look up the G20 riots in Toronto.
I have nothing to cite because it's happening all around us daily.

>> ^ulysses1904:

Are there any studies you can cite documenting the "issue of the incredable (sic) rise in police violence"?
>> ^Buck:
Then there's the issue of the incredable rise in police violence too.



No studys that I know of, it is a fairly recent phenomenon. Start looking around you, can't imagine people not seeing it.

here's a vid to get you started:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDTIviQp2pM&feature=related

My point is really not that hard to get but I suspect I won't be able to get any further with you on this. When someone makes reference to the "the incredible RISE in police violence" I'm interested in knowing whether they have done their homework and actually studied the subject or not, and can offer something more to the discussion than some college kid painting protest signs.

And I pretty much got my answer in your post:
"No studys that I know of, it is a fairly recent phenomenon". The Rodney King beating happened in 1991, was that too recent a phenomenon to be included in any study?

One last time, a rise in the number of videos you can find of police brutality on YouTube is not the same thing as a rise in police brutality. I've seen plenty of videos of police brutality all over the internet and television for years, they enrage me just like anybody else. But if you think it's a fairly recent phenomenom that's on the rise because it's trending on the internet I wouldn't know what else to say to you.
>> ^Buck:

>> ^ulysses1904:
Are there any studies you can cite documenting the "issue of the incredable (sic) rise in police violence"?
>> ^Buck:
Then there's the issue of the incredable rise in police violence too.


No studys that I know of, it is a fairly recent phenomenon. Start looking around you, can't imagine people not seeing it.
here's a vid to get you started:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDTIviQp2pM&feature=related

And I'll *promote this because of the amusing lawsuit *news.

http://www.wheels.ca/news/cop-sues-ferrari-driver-for-10m-after-car-runs-over-foot/

Also apparently the jerk is the boyfriend of some starlet.

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>> ^Krupo:

And I'll promote this because of the amusing lawsuit news.
http://www.wheels.ca/news/cop-sues-ferrari-driver-for-10m-a
fter-car-runs-over-foot/
Also apparently the jerk is the boyfriend of some starlet.


Regardless of the merits of the case, does anyone else think 10 million is kinda high for this?

Let's assume that the cop is in the right and the guy deliberately ran over his foot with the intent of causing injury. Even then 10 million strikes me as an absurd number. How can you justify that? He wasn't crippled, and even if he had to take (being absurdly generous) 1 year off work, unless cops are getting paid a lot better than they used to be, that's still probably not even 1 million.

That said, the driver is still a dumbass and maybe 10 million is the amount required to hurt him.