then I got to switch subjects..

You'll probably be accused of sympathizing with (supporting!) Dorner in 1, 2, 3....

Hang tight!

You'd think I'd learn my lesson by now...

You, you, you.... free thinker you!!

And you just know it's coming.

I wonder how many current or former officers are afraid of speaking up about it?

not many I am sure

I see a public letter written by a cop,nothing more. Is "manifesto" the new misused buzz word?

there is no reasoning with people of that mindset. They are the ones, the ones who are convinced, that they are doing RIGHT for people, people like themselves, and its people like themselves who see the truth and must be protected. Anyone in disagreement supports the very ills of our society.

Their minds are closed to the truth. To change them we must change who leads them. We do that with our votes, with our letters to the editor, to our councilmen and police chiefs, and on up the line. We as citizens have been far too inactive in our responsibilities to ourselves and our neighbors. As individuals we have, in the most part, failed to express ourselves in the ways needed to prevent systems like this. The signs have been on the wall for a long time - A Clockwork Orange, 1984, even Apocalypse Now expressed the power to remove those whose views differ from being in power.

then, by an even stranger set of circumstances, they found out and a couple detectives showed up at my door, and asked me to come to the station to be interviewed... the things i saw were questioned and they attempted to justify what i saw... a couple dozen police officers gathered around while a few young men had the shit kicked out of them...handcuffed, hogtied, and beaten. Eventuallly, I was subpoened to testify. I moved from LA to Long Beach during that interim because I was afraid of being harrassed. What I saw occurred in broad daylight, on a main street in Venice, I happened to be in a third floor apartment and the entire image is forever frozen in my mind. When I testified, the lawyers for the police department tried to discredit me. I was just the witness of something I never wanted to see in the first place. I don't know how the case worked out but I do know that I testified against the lapd for police brutality one year before Rodney King and the riots happened.

their 'area of control'. Most fear a ticket for jay walking, because in the movies only one heroic cop is needed to clean up the most vile and dangerous gangs, rioters or angry mobsters. They enjoy watching shows like 'Cops', don't ask me why. How is it that the open disregard, the violence and mistreatment of the persons they 'apprehend' doesn't bring lawsuits by the victims? How can anyone watch this shit?

People can't feel what you feel, and can't understand what it means, and I don't know why. What you witnessed and went through should rend any ones heart, but I'm not telling you anything you don't already know; you can tell your story to your friends, but unless you embellish it with gory detail or make someone a hero, it means nothing.