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[–] isitfridayyet 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Just another bad apple we will be told.

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[–] permatruth 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

"It is extremely important for the community to know the comments made on Officer White's private social media account do not reflect the thoughts or feelings of the men and women here at the San Jose Police Department," San Jose Police Chief Larry Esquivel said.

That's where the chief is wrong. There are enough officers there who feel that way, that White felt he could make the comments without consequence. The department's official opinion is something that only exists on paper, in meetings, and at press conferences. What these people in charge need to get through their heads is that the opinions and policies that actually have any impact upon the enforcement of law in practice are those held by the officers themselves.

If the department is failing at filtering that type of psyche from the force, then the media bullshit engine can only do so much for so long to compensate. Sooner or later, something more will have to be done. Lucky for the chief, it's a national problem and not just a problem local to that one agency.

Maybe White thought he'd become a SNL joke due to his name. Maybe he thought it's funny, or that it was just online trolling that doesn't really matter. But he still reflected a serious issue that persists across the country. Our cops are soldiers in blue treated as infallible moral authorities. They're regarded as templars. But cops aren't exactly holy, and neither were templars considering that they burned innocent people alive. Food for thought.

I don't know why I post this though. It's not as if anybody who can influence this stuff will read this. And even if they did, rather than think it over or take it to heart, this site would just get undermined to the same degree that Reddit has. Because when the media bullshit engine fails, apparently the fallback plan is to keep people from having discussions. Anything other than fixing the problem, you know. Just spray more air freshener; no need to clean up the dog shit on the floor.

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[–] Django_Bacon_Kitty 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

He wanted a nice paid holiday vacation and knew this was the guaranteed way of getting it. I'm sure he's disappointed he didn't actually get to shoot anybody, though.