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From the Other Side of the Edge….
“If you can’t
do the Time, …then don’t do the Crime.”
By Joe Facinoli
Police departments everywhere, since the beginning of civilization,
have always counted bullies, cowboys, intimidators, tormentors, and
wannabe tough guys, …among their ranks.
So has all of Society, …since the beginning of time.
It’s not right, it’s not fair, and it’s certainly not civil, …but it is
what it is.
For thousands of years.
And Society has always counted, among our members as well, far too many
criminals, ne’er do wells, law breakers and benders, and offenders
against what our civilized society offers to them, …legally and
legitimately.
It’s human nature.
Cops try to do their tough jobs, day in and day out.
Some succeed at it, better than others, …and some step over the Line,
sometimes.
Criminals and Bad Guys do their jobs as well, always taking the easy
way, …always thinking of themselves first, …always looking to distract
the Cops, and society, and to deflect any blame.
The strong, on both sides of the Law, too often take advantage of the
weak, and even abuse them, …merely because they can.
Maybe to satisfy their own distorted needs, …but perhaps, to overcome
their own weaknesses.
And the weak must always compensate, in their own ways, …sometimes
unforgivable.
This is nothing new, …and it is not surprising. It is
simply, common human behavior, …for better or for worse.
Not good, …not what we’d want in a perfect world (and we don’t have
one), …but it is what it is.
But here’s the question: Why, whenever there is
alleged abuse by our Police Forces, does everyone immediately jump past
the fact, completely, that the cause of the entire conflict, was
created by someone breaking the Law ??!!??
Somehow, it doesn’t seem to matter that these criminals are committing
crimes, …sometimes years’ worth, …and are putting good people in harm’s
way with their illegal activities, …not to mention the Cops themselves
!!
How are the Police supposed to act? Like choir boys,
delicately lighting altar candles, on Easter Sunday ??
No, …the Bad Guys must blame someone for their supposed suffering, and
try to distract everyone from the fact that they’ve put themselves in
their own bad spot. Never talking about breaking
laws, many of them major, and all of them anti-society.
Should people die in police custody, under normal, …and civil,
…circumstances?
Certainly and absolutely not.
And they are abused and/or mistreated far too much, as well, …when the
wrong kind of police confront, or attempt to apprehend or subdue
people, who are suspected of wrongdoing.
Not right, not fair, …definitely nothing close to civil, …but it
happens, in these types of raw confrontations.
So why then, do the Bad Guys keep doing these things, …which
continually put themselves in such terrible jeopardy?
And why should it be some big surprise, …when these things happen to
them ??
It shouldn’t be, …not to anyone who’s been paying
attention.
It’s always disappointing (to say the least), and forever tragic, time
and time again, …but it should never be surprising, …given the forces
of human nature at work here.
So many of these bad guy types, feel they can trample on anyone,
anywhere, …and then expect to be treated with kid gloves, when the good
guys catch up to them.
As if they were plucked from behind an apple cart, innocent as a new
born, and then mistreated by the likes of the Dark Side’s Imperial
Storm Troopers??
Some Police DO go too far, and some never see an issue with being
judge, jury, and even executioner, …right from the
beginning.
And some live for this, and get into the “Job” just so that they can be
in control, and lord over all they encounter.
But they wouldn’t have a “Job” to do, nor anyone to control, …if there
were no criminals and evil doers, …doing bad or wrong things to good
people.
This fact never seems to come up, in today’s social and cultural
discussions.
If you’ve done a crime, especially a life of crime, and the Po-Po is
ready to grab you for it, …AND you know the history of what too many of
these Cowboy Cops might do to you, once nabbed, and if you resist,
…then I’ve got a helpful suggestion for you:
DON’T RUN !!!!
And don’t give them a load of crap, and don’t verbally threaten their
mothers, nor their families, nor their masculinity.
And one more: Under NO circumstances should you ever grab
their gun, …nor even lay a finger on them.
Just some thoughts, based on, …oh, I don’t know, …a little common sense
!
But here’s a better one: Don’t do the crimes, …in the
first place !!!
I know, much easier said than done, especially given the inner city
culture in so many of our urban areas. But it
can be done.
And no matter how difficult it may be, to live a life on the straight
and narrow, in the hell holes so many are forced to inhabit, …breaking
the law will always have consequences, …from the legal system,
hopefully, …but too often, some will come before you ever even get
inside of the system.
All we hear about today is cops beating up, shooting, or killing, some
poor and defenseless citizen, who just happened to be in the wrong
place at a terribly wrong time.
Garbage.
Cops don’t walk into grocery stores, and accost people for buying
illegal Three Bean Salad. And people don’t get
stopped on the street, because they tie their shoe strings in a double
slipped, half hitch reef knot.
Police have much more important things to do.
They get after people who are doing, or have done, bad things, …or
those whom they suspect of this type of behavior. And
they have a very tough job.
Sometimes they go too far, and there is no excuse when they do, but
they are always dealing with the worst, most non-cooperative elements
which our society has to offer, …and sometimes things
happen.
Sometimes bad, inexcusable things. And when they do,
those Cops should be punished.
But, …“It takes Two to Tango”, …so if there were no bad guys, and no
wrongs to right (in whatever way), then there’d be no one for the cops
to confront, …and no occasion for abuse.
But somehow, all the righteously indignant, social and cultural
“experts” of today (brought to us by our completely unbiased Major
Media outlets), seem to forget this basic arithmetic.
It’s a very simple game, …and very easy to play.
If you obey the law, and live your life accordingly, the Police will
leave you alone.
And if you do, and they don’t, then you will have legal rights to
pursue, against THEM.
But if you don’t, and Law Enforcement comes after you, then don’t come
crying because they mistreated you. Too late, …by
then. You made your own bed.
Bad cops, who take the law into their own hands, who are abusive, and
who mete out their own illegal “punishments”, should be weeded out,
prosecuted, and jailed (or worse), when found guilty of these
violations of our public trust.
But criminals should expect little mercy, when they violate that same
trust, of a society who wants only to live safely and comfortably, …and
without fear.
Both are bad, …and wholly unwanted. And both should
be eliminated.
But without the one, …the other would have no opportunity to
exist.
Let’s not forget that.
Joe Facinoli
--Joe can be reached at: joefacinoli@gmail.com
Intelligent Response Encouraged !!
© Copyright 2015, Joe Facinoli
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