WelshBloke
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Is he the big wanker in all of this?
I'm going to go with yup!
Is he the big wanker in all of this?
Nobody freaking listens when I try to tell them this stuff is happening.
FloriduhCops:
Florida Woman Nearly Had License Suspended for 6 Bogus Tickets
Two Hialeah police officers were arrested on charges of official misconduct due to a bogus parking ticket scheme.www.newsweek.com
You have to stop and realize that police are Humans just like everyone else on this planet. Just as we have bad humans among us (criminals, etc), so will the Police. There is no test in the world that can weed out all of those bad apples until they do something to show who they really are. The problem is not holding them accountable when it's learned they are bad apples. That is what needs to be fixed. But, then again, we don't hold everyone accountable outside the police, and we have a "lets blame someone else" mentality rather than holding the actual individual accountable for their choices and their actions.It just keeps on keepin' on.
Philadelphia police officer charged with assault and making 'terroristic threats' during a naked fight involving a teenage boy
Det. Robert Redanauer is accused of pointing a handgun at two people, one of them a minor, and threatening to shoot.www.businessinsider.com
woolfe9998 the Supreme Court has stated that the Police are not here to serve and protect citizens....How do two criminal cases against police suggest we can't "trust these people?"
Suppose I were to cite two criminal cases against black people, then conclude from that we can't trust "those people?"
Because if you have a liberal arts degree, the plural of anecdote is data. That's how.How do two criminal cases against police suggest we can't "trust these people?"
Suppose I were to cite two criminal cases against black people, then conclude from that we can't trust "those people?"
Because if you have a liberal arts degree, the plural of anecdote is data. That's how.
Nothing to see here...move along.
I wouldn't assign collective responsibility to any group of people based on a sample size of 2, or 20, or 2000 for that matter. It has no statistical validity.I have no idea what kind of education you had - probably a very bad one, given how incapable you are of rational argument and the difficulty you apparently have at comprehending the difference between assigning collective responsibiltiy to a group like 'the police' and one like 'black people')
(I had to look up what a 'liberal arts degree' is - seems to be a specifically-American thing, don't really see what that has to do with the topic)
I wouldn't assign collective responsibility to any group of people based on a sample size of 2, or 20, or 2000 for that matter. It has no statistical validity.
I'm glad you learned something, but in the future no need to post every tidbit of new information you discover on this forum. (We don't care.)
This was said earlier in this thread, but you apparently got confused and/or forgot: "you can't make a case against an entire group based on anecdotal evidence".No idea what you are talking about. Who is the "we" to which you refer? Your fellow right-wing crackpot Trumpists?
It's perfectly reasonable to assign collective responsibility to an organised collective. A body with power and structure and heirachy and the ability to self-police can be held responsible for the behaviour of its membership. That's entirely different from doing so for a group that has no such power to self-police. Surprised that has to be explained to you.
This was said earlier in this thread, but you apparently got confused and/or forgot: "you can't make a case against an entire group based on anecdotal evidence".
Take some statistics classes, learn to think logically and critically, and let us know how you make out.
Good luck.
I wouldn't assign collective responsibility to any group of people based on a sample size of 2, or 20, or 2000 for that matter. It has no statistical validity.
I'm glad you learned something, but in the future no need to post every tidbit of new information you discover on this forum. (We don't care.)
This was said earlier in this thread, but you apparently got confused and/or forgot: "you can't make a case against an entire group based on anecdotal evidence".
Take some statistics classes, learn to think logically and critically, and let us know how you make out.
Good luck.
Turns out they can't even trust each other ....
"A former police lieutenant-turned-lawyer has been sentenced to over four years in prison after cheating a fellow officer of $900,000 he was owed for working at the smoldering World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Associated Press April 19, 2021"
Conservatives think it's just things like literature, art, basket weaving, and the like. We should never look back at past events, you know History.I have no idea what kind of education you had - probably a very bad one, given how incapable you are of rational argument and the difficulty you apparently have at comprehending the difference between assigning collective responsibiltiy to a group like 'the police' and one like 'black people')
(I had to look up what a 'liberal arts degree' is - seems to be a specifically-American thing, don't really see what that has to do with the topic)
No idea what you are talking about. Who is the "we" to which you refer? Your fellow right-wing crackpot Trumpists?
It's perfectly reasonable to assign collective responsibility to an organised collective. A body with power and structure and heirachy and the ability to self-police can be held responsible for the behaviour of its membership. That's entirely different from doing so for a group that has no such power to self-police. Surprised that has to be explained to you.
Sample sizes of 2000 have no statistical validity? Maybe you're the one who needs to take a statistics course.
Depends how the sample was obtained. If you wanted to assess violence among American police, you could take a random sample of 2000 and examine their files. That would be legitimate. However, if you have a media selected sample of 2000 cops who did bad things, which is why they are in the news, then generalizing from 2000 -> 700,000 total police is not valid. What is occurring with the way people react to these news stories is really analogous to the latter, not the former. However many cases we hear about in the news, it is not a scientific sample.
I wouldn't assign collective responsibility to any group of people based on a sample size of 2, or 20, or 2000 for that matter. It has no statistical validity.