Originally posted by: InfoDroid
Never said it was the rule, Chaltab. Nor did I say ALL cops do things like this.
What I was illustrating by posting a link to that article is simply this: For Ferris to say that the plot of Crash is not credible because nothing that like that EVER happens or has ever happened (especially in L.A.), and that an officer would "never even THINK of doing something like that" is obviously, according to this report, not only untrue but a naively flawed way of thinking.
I'd like you to explain how that's "twisted logic", Chaltab. I really would. I'd also like you to explain to me how that "twisted logic" contributes to the racism Black people face.
Yeah...your post makes absolutely no sense.
--ID
Originally posted by: ferris209
do you really think a cop could even think about feeling up a woman on duty and actually get away with it?
do you really think a cop could even think about feeling up a woman on duty and actually get away with it?
Never said it was the rule, Chaltab. Nor did I say ALL cops do things like this.
What I was illustrating by posting a link to that article is simply this: For Ferris to say that the plot of Crash is not credible because nothing that like that EVER happens or has ever happened (especially in L.A.), and that an officer would "never even THINK of doing something like that" is obviously, according to this report, not only untrue but a naively flawed way of thinking.
I'd like you to explain how that's "twisted logic", Chaltab. I really would. I'd also like you to explain to me how that "twisted logic" contributes to the racism Black people face.
Yeah...your post makes absolutely no sense.
--ID
I've not seen the movie, so I don't know how realistic it is, and the guy in your news article is a jerk who should be put in prison.. But MY issue is that the constant portrayal of cops as generally horrible people by the media and Hollywood makes people in the real world distrustful of ALL real world cops, similarly to how constant portrayals of black men as rapists could be used to justify racism. From what I've heard, such things were common in the early and mid-twentieth centuries.
I don't want to see the same thing happen to our cops.
Corrupt cops should be dealt with using extreme prejudice, but the media should use a strong level of discression when reporting such cases, and I'm not seeing that. They report the proportionately rare instances of stuff like cops forcing a couple to have sex, put it on the internet for everyone to see, and generally make cops look bad.