I am so happy I don't live in the "land of the free", seems like one dark and dangerous country.
Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
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Re: Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article is about people literally trying to get away with murder. The last two sentences are references to well-documented cases of police officers killing non-dangerous citizens. There's no reason to be polite about this.
The article is about a sub-group of these people, but the tone to me as well was one of sweeping generalizations. Edit (instead of replying to all of the individual replies): I'll be the first to acknowledge that there are systemic problems in police forces worldwide, just like there are systemic problems in any large organization, especially one endowed which so much executive power. However, any argument that paint…
I'm originally from Brazil and I hear that same argument about cops over there, that bad ones are a minority, that we shouldn't generalise.
I don't buy it, the system itself enables this, if it didn't then those bad apples would have been detected and expelled before they could cause so much damage. It can be a minority doing that but they have affected so much that the whole itself is no longer trustworthy and requires reconstruction from the ground up, the foundations themselves have been damaged and as it would be for a structure or a car, when the base structure that supports everything else cannot be repaired you need a new one.
That's what should happen in Baltimore, that's what should happen with the Brazilian military and civilian police, their foundations aren't good enough to be trusted anymore.
Re: Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article is about people literally trying to get away with murder. The last two sentences are references to well-documented cases of police officers killing non-dangerous citizens. There's no reason to be polite about this.
The article is about a sub-group of these people, but the tone to me as well was one of sweeping generalizations. Edit (instead of replying to all of the individual replies): I'll be the first to acknowledge that there are systemic problems in police forces worldwide, just like there are systemic problems in any large organization, especially one endowed which so much executive power. However, any argument that paint…
Just like it’s a sweeping generalization to call ISIS members terrorists, right? Most of them don’t partake in such ops.
Re: Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
#44> It is not just Baltimore cops. It is cops. They will shoot you in the face in front of your infant daughter. They will choke you to sleep for selling cigarettes. This is the tone and conclusion of this article. If you want the actual story, read the original report here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-gun...
> This is the tone and conclusion of this "article" Why on earth did you put "article" in quotes. Are you questioning whether it is, in fact, an article? Because that seems quite self-evident. You might disagree with it but be assured TFA is, in fact, an article and putting the word in quotes just makes it look like you don't know what quotes are for. Hint: quoting.
If it’s a Gawker-associated publication, isn’t there always a question of validity?
Re: Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
#45Ignoring the content of the article, why are so many articles on sites like these written so "weird"? There is lots of text and it seems there is very little actual content.
It is like only a few lines actually have something to say, but the rest is just filler content. It is like someone wrote an article of a few lines, and someone else just extended it with random sentences to fill a page.
To make matters worse, usually the page is also polluted with advertisements and referencing articles in between paragraphs.
Re: Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I changed it now. But wow, that was quite the reaction. Your interpretation is correct and at least in my cultural circle, quotes around nouns serve as a way to express the lacking quality of the thing. Ie. this is a rant pretending to be a news piece. But that's just my opinion. Equally IMO, the actual source is more important than an opinion on the source.
The use of quotes to question the authenticity or true nature of something is accepted in English. You could have said "journalism" and I wouldn't have jumped on you. On "article" though it's inappropriate. The other comment notwithstanding, an article is an article, no matter if it's written by a journalist, an amateur, or a monkey banging its head on a keyboard. There is zero credibility implied by the word. Exampl…
Food is food, with no consideration of quality implied, so that doesn't quite work as an explanation of why it would be right around food, but not around restaurant.
Re: Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
#47Our US society is sick beyond belief.
The problem goes way beyond the US borders, and is a clear sign of corruption among the ruling class.
When a cop is acquitted for murdering some innocent thanks to some intervention form above, he could become in the future a pawn of a private army for whoever was helping him/her from above.
Suppose you're a high profile politician who needs some dirty job to be done, who would you trust more, some thugs recruited around or ex cops who don't serve jail time because of you?
Re: Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
#48Why not clean house? At this point I can't imagine the local community, particularly minorities, have any trust in the authorities. Isn't that failure, why not train a new police force with new uniforms and then phase out the old?
We tried. Baltimore is on its third police commissioner in just six years.
Where are you going to get the people and money for a “new police force”? BPD is already severely understaffed.
Re: Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
#49Ignoring the content of the article, why are so many articles on sites like these written so "weird"? There is lots of text and it seems there is very little actual content. It is like only a few lines actually have something to say, but the rest is just filler content. It is like someone wrote an article of a few lines, and someone else just extended it with random sentences to fill a page. To make matters worse, us…
Because the article is not a primary source, and it’s published on a website that rarely if ever “breaks” a story. The only way for the site to stay in business is to publish glorified rewordings of whatever primary source published a set of facts today. The further you get from the primary source, the more “filler” content is required to justify yet another piece about the same subject.
Re: Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Most of the problems cropping up these past two years can be traced to the fact that people put the same credibility in a piece by some random person on the internet as they do in one by a career journalist. Citation needed.
For which part? Have you missed the whole “fake news” fiasco? People will upvote and share any article that reinforces their existing beliefs and world view. Rather than approaching articles with a healthy skepticism and critical thinking, many people are consuming content based on what “team” the author seems to be advocating for. Instead of asking questions like, “what is the author’s agenda?” or “does this author…
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