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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
You could say the same thing about the general population. If someone commits a disgusting crime, it will likely be in the paper and there is a good chance that someone will post it here. Stories about people going about their daily lives and not doing anything stupid or heinous, usually aren't that interesting. To use another example, stories about clergy and child molestation make the headlines and get posted here, but no one talks about the ones who do good and are law abiding.
The bottom line is that this officer raped a man with a taser. That deserves to get talked about.
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Exactly. If there's one thing that bothers me about CP, it's this weird pro cop/anti cop debate that seems to come up when ever a cop related story is posted. When these threads come up I see lots of posters that are against/skeptical of the actions of the cop in that particular story. Which is usually followed up by accusations of posters being anti-cop.
I have nothing but respect for police officers and the job they do, and have had really good experiences with officers in Calgary. Yet for some reason, on Calgarypuck, I constantly find myself generalized as "the anti police crowd", simply because I reply to police threads where an officer/officers have seemingly acted out of line.
A couple of posters have it exactly right. Certain posters say "Well you never hear the stories where cops acted appropriatly". Well....no, you don't. That's the same with all people/proffessions.......and like one poster said, if posters read stories on Calgarypuck and come to the conclusion that all cops are ######bags, then they're ignorant to begin with.