This offends a lot of people, especially those who have family members who are in "law enforcement", and those who love a cop who claims to be a "peace officer". But, the truth is still that there are no good cops.
If there is even one, show me.
But then consider: Has this person ever enforced a single counterfeit "law"? Any anti-drug "law", anti-gun "law", "tax law", speed limit, seat belt enforcement, property "code", asset forfeiture, etc.? If so, the person isn't a "good cop"- certainly not a good person while acting as a cop.
Some cops may be less evil than others; I certainly hope so. But "less evil" falls very short of "good".
Don't use the excuse that "the people" wanted the "laws" the cop is enforcing. Majority rule is just as illegitimate as dictator rule. If 100 billion people "decide" to violate the rights of one individual, it is still wrong. Enforcing a "law" based upon that violation is wrong. If you have no choice, then you can't be good and do your job.
Cops don't enforce every "law" on the books, anyway (as some claim); it is utterly impossible. They will always use their discretion to decide which "laws" to enforce and which to ignore when they see them being broken. And they almost always ignore broken laws when it's other cops they see doing the lawbreaking.
And don't give me that BS about having taken an oath to enforce the "laws". "I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." Any "law" that violates the Constitution has been declared by the Supreme Court to not be a law. (Even if they now weasel-word their way into claiming that anti-gun "laws" and anti-drug "laws" and health care "laws" and compulsory schooling "laws" don't violate the Constitution. Ha!) If a cop took an oath to the Constitution, and then ever enforced a "law" that violates the clear language of the Constitution as written, then that cop violated his oath. But that's small potatoes.
If you, as a cop, ever enforced any "law" that violated anyone else's Natural Rights, then YOU were the thug and the bad guy. Don't try to pass the blame and say you were "only doing your job". It didn't work at Nuremberg and it won't work at Nuremberg II.
You have a brain- use it.
I still say show me ONE cop who doesn't initiate force or theft as a part of being a cop- regardless of what the majority tells him to do- and I will accept that he is a good cop. On an individual by individual basis. I have never, ever been shown even one... and I have been asking for years for just one example.
If you can honestly say the person you are claiming to be a good cop has never once enforced a single counterfeit "law", then you still have to answer what they did about all their "brothers in blue" they knew who were enforcing those "laws". Because if they didn't stop them- using everything up to and including deadly force- then they are not a "good cop". They allowed bad cops to commit evil acts and get away with it.
A "good cop" wouldn't survive with his job for even one day.
Thus, there are no "good cops". (There are, however, "nice cops".)
But there are good ex-cops. I know because I have met a few. And they generally despise cops, and admit that the things they did while a cop were wrong. Not everything, but enough things to make their cop past a shameful thing. There is no honor in being a cop.
Here's a bonus video:
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Like I said in my addendum to "The Myth of Inalienable Rights," http://dowehaverights.blogspot.com (way down towards the bottom) "Crimes, Organized Crimes, and Criminals," any government worker--elected or appointed or hired--who enforces the anti-drug laws is violating the rights of otherwise honest peaceful citizens. Any government worker who supports the actual rights violators are criminally involved under the conspiracy laws. An organization (government) that is violating the rights of the people is an organized crime syndicate. That would include not just cops, but the Justices of the Supreme Court, the President, all of Congress and the state legislatures, and the clerks and other agents of the federal, state, and local governments.
ReplyDeleteAnother criteria for judging the mythical "good cop" - does this cop arrest other cops?
ReplyDeleteNo, those don't exist. Look at a famous example - the Critical Mass Cycling Event. One cop is commonly considered bad, the one who knocked down the cyclist for no reason. What about the other cops standing around doing nothing? Many people consider them good because they didn't assault anyone, but they witnessed a crime and did nothing because the criminal was one of their own.
http://aynrkey.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-is-good-cop.html
When the so-called "Oathkeepers" resign en-masse, I will believe them.
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