Use Harsh Language Instead?

[ColonialMarine0431]

STOP! Or I'll use harsh language!

Alarming Videos of South Carolina Highway Patrol Prompt Federal Probe
Thursday, March 20, 2008

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The U.S. Justice Department has started an investigation of the South Carolina Highway Patrol after dash-cam videos showed a trooper using a racial epithet and two other patrolmen ramming their cruisers into fleeing suspects, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.

"I've reviewed some of the videos, and based on that review, felt that it was appropriate to have our office involved," said Kevin McDonald, acting U.S. Attorney for South Carolina. "We will open a file like any other criminal case, and work with the FBI in their investigation, and then make prosecutorial decisions."

Highway Patrol Col. Russell Roark and his boss, Public Safety Director James Schweitzer, resigned last month after a tape surfaced showing a trooper using a racial slur. "You better run," then-Lance Cpl. Daniel C. Campbell said to a suspect, using a derogatory term for blacks, "because I'm fixin' to kill you."

Campbell was reprimanded, suspended and ordered to undergo anger and diversity training, but Gov. Mark Sanford said he should have been fired.

This week, the Highway Patrol released two more videos showing troopers using their cars to ram fleeing suspects. In one of those tapes, Lance Cpl. Steven C. Garren drives after a black man on foot, striking him when he crosses in front of Garren's cruiser. The man flips over the car's hood and into high grass on the roadside.

"Yeah, I hit him. I was trying to hit him," Garren, who is white, can be heard telling another trooper.

LINKIE (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,339908,00.html)

Memo to crooks: DON'T RUN IDIOT!!!!!!!!

[PrezLeefun]

I dont like that language but a criminal is a criminal. And a criminal who runs is an idiot and coward. The cop who hunts his ass down is smart.

[ColonialMarine0431]

I think it's the use of that word that got people's panties in a knot. I don't advocate running down criminals (usually) but in the heat of the moment the adrenaline and frustration level are peaking.

[LivingDeadGirl]

You know, we ask cops to do their job, to stop criminals and for some reason we then expect them to be human. Should they be held to a higher standard - YES. BUT...they are human and they are also not dealing with nice people. They are going to say things that are wrong, they may use some rather harsh tactics to catch someone, but at the end of the day another criminal off the streets is a GOOD thing. A lovey-dovey police force does nothing but create a society where the criminals rule and the rest of us either have to arm ourselves or cower in terror.

People need to get real!

[Wolfcounsel]

Or stop hiring girls who don't know how to be tough and efficient police officers. I would ask Incident_command what he thinks of the Police/GI wannabes. And racial slurs are not the way to do it, clowns!