Yes @enoch
I did watch a few of his videos, including the one you point out.
My neighbor before I moved was RCMP. Nicest guy you'd ever meet. It's interesting to see officers from another perspective.
There are a lot of corrupted ones, tarnished ones, and otherwise over-zealous ones. The quotas and demands of superiors doesn't help the system either.
I just like to see all aspects, it helps to remind us of the mind-set that goes into doing that job and the types of personalities in the position of demanded respect. (as opposed to earned respect).

@newtboy
hey i was offering a video from another perspective,the cops perspective.

but i have watched more than one of his videos.

i didn't post this as an excuse for bad policing,or just plain bad cops.

i was a bouncer,a bartender,a titty bar dj.i have seen my fair share of shit cops,and also good ones.

i think izzo is one of the good ones.you disagree.

meh.../shrugs

*kill

Another perspective....

Who said people don't have a right to privacy? In an ideal world people would respect that right. But we don't live in an ideal world do we? So it makes sense to assess the risks and take precautions.

Look at it from another perspective. If I constantly leave my house unlocked with all the ground floor windows open when I go out, do I deserve to be robbed? No. But through my actions have I made it exponentially more likely that I'm going to be robbed? Yes. Does that mean the robber should get a lighter sentence if caught? No. Could I have easily prevented the crime from happening by taking basic precautions? Yes. Does that mean the crime is my fault? No. But was I naive to think that no one would ever rob my house? Absolutely, unless I happen to live alone on a deserted island!

It sucks what happened to her. It's not her fault. She deserves justice and I hope they catch the person who did it. The point of my previous post was that anybody taking naked pics of themselves these days--particularly digital ones--is exponentially increasing their risk of a humiliating exposure. That's the reality, whether you think it is "stupid" or not. If a person is not comfortable with that level of risk, they shouldn't engage in the behavior. This in no way implies that a person who has taken naked pics of themselves doesn't deserve justice if they are victimized. But it does imply that they are a bit naive (or haven't been paying attention to current events) if they thought there was little risk in taking naked pics of themselves and posting them online (as this person apparently did on her Facebook page) given the current security situation on the Internet.

I also have narcolepsy, but without the cataplexy, for which I am most grateful! I also had blephorospasms, which is when my eyes close unexpectedly, without the sleep. It was quite frightening, as it happened a number of times while I was driving. I saw a neurologist soon after these symptoms began, and it has been controlled quite well, with Botox injections around the outer edges of my eyes. This is very different from the Botox which is used on wrinkles. Within a month or so, those disappeared, although my eyelids are often heavy and I find it more comfortable to keep them closed, whenever possible. The narcolepsy is still with me: I take a medication called Provigil, when certainly helps. But I have a hard time making myself go to bed, when I begin feeling sleepy. I often fall asleep at my desk top computer with my head falling on the keyboard, leaving the strangest comments, which I enjoy posting, much to people's confusion. I have also often fallen out of my chair, and been rudely awakened by the sudden stop. Fortunately, I never been seriously hurt, and that hasn't happened for many months. I'm an older woman of 79, with osteoporosis, but I haven't broken anything in these unexpected naps, as I call them. The young woman in the video, who is a dancer and making a teaching video, it seems, is a much worse situation that I, for which I am grateful. I have here seen this site before, and I hope I'm not intruding...just thought folks might like to hear another perspective.

Enoch, I agree with you 100%.

In my defense, I am not defending bad behavior or bad cops. They make the rest of us (the majority) look bad.

All I'm trying to do is bring some light to the subject. I have inside knowledge of how things are. There is another side to every story, which is one of the first thing a cop learns.

But there are a lot of rabid cop-haters out there (or gathered together in a cave and surfing videosift) who will never accept anything I say or try to see it from another perspective.

Bad cops are the exception, not the rule, which is my focus in these discussions.

When I say that courts have ruled that cops can lie, it doesn't mean cops go around lying to everyone. It means that during an investigation or investigative stop, you can bluff someone to reveal criminal behavior. The courts will certainly let you know that lying in court will result in your termination, the loss of your pension, your whole career.

I agree with you that cops should be held to a higher standard. I don't like fat cops, rude cops, aggressive cops. My favorite co-workers are those with a good sense of humor, self-deprecation and a common-sense perspective.

But whenever I make a comment on here, people just weave these incredible fabrications of corruption and accusation...eventually I think, fuck it, what a waste of time.

Then I take a break and I try it again. What a fool I am!

If that was true then we would not really have a problem with Choggies bullshit tin foil ranting, calling it another perspective. That fucker calls bullshit multiple times a day and has made nothing but a joke of himself, he is not right at all during the day. ... or night.

I don't have a lot of time at the moment to get into this in depth, but this article might help to clarify my thoughts on the issue.

This is not a "competition," by any means, but I am sensitized to the issue, having been indoctrinated throughout my schooling and my upbringing by what feels like a social inequity which purports that, implicitly, men are "bad" and need to be "checked" at every turn, while women are "good," and must be protected and acquiesced at all times. As I get older, however, this attitude turns sour as I continuously find myself faced with a stark dichotomy between either heeding the social, professional, and political needs, wants, and desires of "all women," and those of protecting my own social, professional, and political needs, wants, and desires "as a man." These shouldn't be dichotomous, but for some reason, it has become such.

I am willing to look at and manage my own triggers and/or issues around this, as a personal effort (and I do on almost a daily basis), but in the meantime (and in the hopes of supporting such an effort), I feel there needs to be a lot more recognition and dialogue around what constitutes "equality" (be it gender, or financial, or otherwise) within a society that is either politically regulated and thereby "rigged," by definition on behalf of some people, at the expense of others; or it is socially imposed, whereby (for example) a man is simply expected to be the breadwinner, by virtue of his gender, and reactively judged if he is or can not be that.

I have no interest in "making a video" about this, since my energies are better placed elsewhere, at present, but I can and do make comments on videos like this one, in an effort to meet and respond to the messages with which we're inculcated, with the personal albeit opposing view that things "are as they are" for a reason, and if we're to do anything about it, it requires a fuller examination of the entire picture, and not simply a one-sided, biased and therefore "unequal," perspective which posts blame (and/or guilt) upon one side of the equation without any (or with little) insight as to what role one plays in the issue, oneself.

I am not saying that the inequities aren't there. In fact, I'd go so far as to say
that people need to come to terms with the fact that some people will always "have more" than others and, in a leveled playing field, that is the only fair situation that can exist. In other words, any forced or imposed "equality" is implicitly incompatible with both liberty and freedom, and can not (and should not) be abided as a matter of course.

I encourage you to take a look at the article posted at the top of this comment for another perspective on the same (or "similar") issue.

MOST of the folks on this site need therapy or self-reflection from time to time bone, line forms at the rear? Attention whores?? Please-The mirror comments I make not infrequently when calling to task users here, please?

Re-read your shit, yer stuff rather, and speak it of yourself and call back??

I have been banned in the past for the "adhom" whatever you wanna get yer panties ruffled-over, used above (dickbag) and there was then no recourse to the mob-I have another perspective, wow. Amazing. Were not you banned for the selfsamish shit??

Call me a dickbag again and again-working on patience and my kindness knows no bounds there, perky...Fuck, ME!

For another perspective, here's a condensed animated version:

*related=http://videosift.com/video/The-Hunger-Games-Condensed-Version

@bareboards2 It takes strength to admit when you were wrong, sure. However, the inability to see things from anothers perspective until it has the chance to directly effect you doesn't make you wise, it makes you not stupid. That Joe has changed his mind on this particular issue is admirable but the reasons for him changing his mind are not. His newly found empathy will find no greater application than this particular issue and so he continues blindly on a moral path correcting his way only when he directly encounters something near and dear to himself. Wisdom would dictate that he has actually found a new principle with which to act that a great many things in his world are subject to.

I know I am banging on about morality etc (I study morality so I can't help it) but so much of the language used in this kind of debate is moralistic and as such everyone thinks they privy to some sort of objective truth that just happens to agree with their personal beliefs. We can't all be right.

Another perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQCjQy3q4YE -- "William Shatner gets the crowd exited at the San Diego Comicon 2011 with the infamous shout from Star Trek 2. Here "KHAN!" is screamed and the crowd goes wild! Here, Scott Bakula, Avery Brooks join William Shatner for a panel on the release of their movie premiere called 'The Captains.'" --http://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/ixvbe/william_shatner_leads_3000_people_in_a_massive/c27ihgj

Boo, @dystopianfuturetoday, you're not even trying to comprehend free markets; you're simply labeling me as a misguided moron who prays at the alter of big business. When have I ever alluded that free markets are an "almost supernatural force"? It's like you're purposely trying to associate my politics with theism. Another subtle appeal to spite logical fallacy. Your favorite these days.

@mgittle's open-mindedness is what allows him to see another perspective on free markets vs regulated markets/corporate markets/crony capitalism, but you (as with NR and volumpy) are traditional Dems with traditional ideas of market based on partisan politics, and you'll never budge.

Remember, dft, I used to vote Democrat, so I've only recently changed my perspective.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/collateral-murder-baghdad-anything

Another perspective that balances that of WikiLeaks. Hate if you will, but the best approach is to get above the emotional response and examine it dispassionately.

It is important to note that Tyson has distanced himself from the controversial 2006 IAU decision, which he himself admits is flawed. At this point, he even admits that the debate is not over, that it might be too early in the study of planetary scientists for anyone to be defining what a planet is in the first place. This was pretty much his message at the Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, which he moderated at the American Museum of Natural History on March 10, 2009.

Significantly, only four percent of the IAU voted on Pluto's demotion, and most are not planetary scientists. Their decision was immediately rejected by hundreds of professional astronomers led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto.

This debate is far from over. For another perspective, anyone interested in this topic should read "Is Pluto A Planet" by Dr. David Weintraub.