RE: UNplugged Radio Ep.19 - The F@#* the Police Episode
@1h19m - OK, I turned my music down. Let's do it.
If the cop says shit about another cop, he might lose his job, or die (cops can set him up to take various forms of calls).
Those guys they pick up off the street, if they snitch, then the cop gets good performance reports. Raises.
It's all Machiavellian. If you remove the ethics and look only at the motivation, it's all quite obvious.
The solution probably lies in making the incentives for being a good cop line up with stopping bad cops, but I guess that's easier said than done.
@1h25m "The cop looked ashamed"
That would imply a human bone in there somewhere then, yes?
@1h35m - "Arrested just for being black"
My mom used to complain about this injustice when I was a kid. She called it DWB "driving while black".
@1h45m - What laws shouldn't apply to soldiers, and why not? Surely not all but murder, as Gem suggested?
Exactly...and what they don't talk about in regards to when a soldier is overseas Lex, is how many soldiers are prosecuted overseas for mutiny...Meaning disobeying an order that literally puts their lives and their fellow soldier's life irresponsibly at risk....Hundreds a year. There are over 100,000 soldiers currently who have served in the army and because of a jag case don't qualify to get benefits. They didn't get in trouble until the military, so...what exactly is going on within the military that's causing these soldiers to get in trouble while they're enlisted.
Sounds like a topic worthy of another podcast in itself.