jim wilson

There was a two-hour episode of "Cops" on the tube last night, featuring the
Portland Police. Every time I clicked past it, I didn't like what I saw.
First there was that white-haired jerk who thinks he's God's gift to
humanity rather than the low class, police- chasing, narc asshole he really
is. They were busting some empty house where they confiscated a couple of
good-sized marijuana plants and about twenty more, each of which weren't big
enough to make a joint from. This was allegedly a big enough haul to
warrant inclusion on their stupid tv program. They confiscated the guy's
guns, they impounded his Corvette (why, I wondered) and then narco-boy left
a snotty message on his answer phone. It seemed like a chickenshit bust to
me.
Next up, a cop approaches three men sitting on a park bench in a park.
We soon deduce that the cop had already told one of them to go home and he
hadn't done so. So the cop "arrests him." I put that in quotes because
what he really did was beat the guy up a bit. What was his crime, you well
might ask? Why, he was in possession of a cap gun that looked like a small
automatic pistol and somebody alleged that he had brandished it. I don't
know about you, but when I was a kid, we played cowboys and Indians all the
time. We ran around the neighborhood "brandishing" toy guns. I even had a
six shooter that looked pretty real. Later, I owned a bb gun that looked
just like a Winchester saddle gun. No cop ever even thought to shoot me
because I had them. This may be a different era, but this bullshit about
toy guns has really gone way too far in politically correct havens like
Portland. Wasn't Portland the town where the cops shot some kid for waving
a cap gun at passing traffic? They killed the poor little sonofabitch and
got away with it. If you think fascism is alive and well in the red states,
I've got news for you, it's much worse in the blue.
As for narco-boy and the fascist tv show called "Cops," I think the
time has come to stop patronizing the show. Their biggest feature are
police chases, which in most cases are unwarranted and dangerous. You may
not think so until those chased are killed because they didn't want another
traffic ticket, or even worse, they are driven into an innocent bystander
guilty of nothing more than living in a city where the cops are a bunch of
asshole cowboys who are out of control and possess no judgement at all. In
most cases, a runaway suspect can be tracked by a helicopter or their
license plate noted and they can be picked up later on. In very few cases
is the person running from the cops actually a felon with warrants who is
such a danger to society that he simply cannot be allowed to escape even
temporarily. Certainly, there are cases of that and cops who insist some
people must be persued are not entirely without justification, but by and
large, most police chases should be a thing of the past. "Cops" might have
a good deal less boring footage with which to recruit numbskulls from the
general populace, but that might be a good thing, eh.