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No thanks. From my limited experience, beat cops tend to be quite dim. In fact, there was a thread on here recently about how some police departments won't allow candidates with high I.Q.s to become street cops.

Are those who get through the ones you want deciding your 'punishment' off the cuff?

Bad idea.

The guy even (unwittingly) destroys his whole argument by pining for the "good old days" of the 1980s.

Is he kidding?
One would think that a study of policing in the '80s and '70s is a lesson on what not to do.

What scares me is when once insane ideas that where considered to kooky they where the stuff of post-apocalyptic sci-fi is now bantered about at least by one person as a good idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dredd

It's sort of how they do it in China -- the prosecutors decide sentence. Is that the way you wanna go?

"In Chicago, back in the 1980’s, we had all these problems with drug dealers selling their dope on the street. We used to catch them and bring them in front of the older folks. We used to take their drug money and give it to all the neighbors on the block! They loved it, and the f–ing gangbangers hated it, of course. But, the people on the block always said to us, “We know you can’t get these guys off the streets, so keep doing what you are doing.”

Yeah- well I to break to him and to all that believe his BS- it didn't work. Besides I read more articles about cops stealing the drugs and money from the entrepreneurs (hence forth I will refer to drug dealers as entrepreneurs) and reselling or taking them for themselves. What a load of crap. smurfing hypocrites.

"I AM THE LAW!"

smurf, you won't catch them giving that money back out to the community these days.  That goes to buy new police cruisers and guns.

"So tell me, punk, you feel lucky today?"

Not a good situation when cops think Dirty Harry is real.

bratboy wrote:

smurf, you won't catch them giving that money back out to the community these days.  That goes to buy new police cruisers and guns.

And more crap to hang from those retarded ass utility belts.

Seriously- have you seen one lately? It's a wonder their uniform stays up. Once again, I guess, you just can't teach stoooopid.

user wrote:

I had a Bat Belt when I was a kid.

It was cool.

Me too. And it was definitely cool. Except I was 5.

user wrote:

"So tell me, punk, you feel lucky today?"

Not a good situation when cops think Dirty Harry is real.

Since we're so off topic already I thought I'd share a tidbit I learned last night.  The actor who played the Scorpio Killer in Dirty Harry also played Garek on Deep Space 9.  Blew my mind... just a little.

I know what yer thinkin'.  Is his phaser power used up?  To tell you the truth, with all the excitement, I don't know myself.  What you need to be askin' yourself now is, "Do I feel lucky?"  Well, do ya, punk?