Kip Clip #1
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I recently responded thusly to a comment:
Have ordinary beat cops become "just another vicious street gang"? Or is the problem from higher up the chain of command — perhaps all the way to the civilian leadership (i.e., politicians and bureaucrats)? Who are the true "bunch of nightriders"?
(Note also the relevance of "there are enough guns out there" to the news that the District Of Columbia has asked the Supreme Court to review the broad question of gun control and Second Amendment rights.)
I realize that some more vocal libertarians feel a desperate need to loathe and mistrust police the way that I loathe and mistrust politicians. The difference is that my worldview, unlike theirs, is grounded in consistent empirical evidence, not paranoia and stray anecdotes.So for our first Kip Clip, we turn to my favorite fictional cop, Captain Frank Furillo of Hill Street Blues:
Have ordinary beat cops become "just another vicious street gang"? Or is the problem from higher up the chain of command — perhaps all the way to the civilian leadership (i.e., politicians and bureaucrats)? Who are the true "bunch of nightriders"?
(Note also the relevance of "there are enough guns out there" to the news that the District Of Columbia has asked the Supreme Court to review the broad question of gun control and Second Amendment rights.)
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14 September 2007
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