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Originally Posted by dissention
That still doesn't qualify them to have their civil rights stripped away.To do so would rob our "justice system" of the little justice it still doles out, and it perturbs me greatly that you think police officers themselves should be the ones to decide what to do with such criminals once they get them in their grasps.
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Ah, maybe not. Whatever
Now we are getting into philosophy and a slippery slope discussion.
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No crime invites police brutality or the abuse of their power as professionals who are there to uphold the law, not use the law at their discretion. Once we have goons riding around with pistols, batons, and shotguns who will punish criminals as they see fit, we stop having a police force and instead have a militia on the government payroll.
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Quite true. And I submit, in some areas of the country, perhaps the streets are so brutal that it justifies such a system.
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Not to mention it robs the so-called criminals of due process, thereby wreaking havoc on the very definition of American justice and rendering it useless.
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I guess so. I still think certain crimes give cops some grey area to work with. Like eluding them. Like beating up women. Abusing kids. If they catch someone in one of these acts and have witnessed it, I have no problem if they kick a little ass. None whatsoever. I just hope no cameras are around.
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And it isn't animalistic for police officers to kill them as soon as they're apprehended? Give me a ****ing break, man. That's sick. We'd be wading in even scarier, more fascist waters than we are now.
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Technically, yes. If you want to get into a law theory discussion, yes. However, if once a car chase suspect who went on a 200 mile chase, endangering lives all the way, were fatally shot in the head by a citizen or a cop at the end...and they said, "Ooops, sorry, didn't mean to pull the trigger" I would be hard pressed to not throw a party for the gun holder at my home.
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I'd move out of any state that would let you become a cop! 
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Not if I saved your ass you wouldn't !
