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In article <dsprad-2306961435540001@dsprad.mindspring.com>,
dsprad@stservices.com (David B. Spradlin) wrote:

> 2.)  To the average citizen, the chance of having your civil rights
> violated is a far greater risk from a criminal than from the "police."  I
> personally do not worry about the police, because I have no reason to
> worry about them violating my civil rights.  The chances of being a victim
> of crime are about a million times higher than being a victim of the
> police.

Actually, you DO have reason to worry about them violating your civil
rights.  Simply put, policemen are people, and some people are power-
hungry sons of bitches.

If society functioned properly, cops would never ever do anything wrong.
But some cops are not quite the Dudley Do-Rights we want them to be.
That's not paranoia, that's reality.

Even then, cops make mistakes sometimes.  Consider my brother-in-law,
who one time walked out of a convenience store to mail a letter and
found dozens of guns trained on him.  Turns out he bore a passing
resemblance to an armed robber in the area.  They let him go without
filling him full of lead, but with tensions high, a small mistake
could have spiraled out of control easily enough.

I'm not saying that we should get rid of cops ... I am merely disputing
the point that you have "no reason to worry".  Perhaps you have LESS to
fear from cops -- I suspect I do as well -- but the day you claim all
cops are honest and noble, you might as well say the same about
politicians.


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