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The Root reports that “Almost half of Americans hate their police department:”
[DrugAbuse.com] examined over 766,000 tweets about sentiment toward law enforcement in each state. The state with the most positive perception of police was New Hampshire. The most negative: Arkansas. The city with the most positive perception of police was Columbus, Ohio, while the one with the most negative was, not surprisingly, Ferguson, Mo. Other “failing” city police departments included Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, New York and Denver. Baltimore, a city still reeling from recent unrest, received a D grade….
“If you talk to young people in Baltimore, I don’t think their feelings about police have changed at all in the last five to seven years,” says [Philip Leaf, a Johns Hopkins University professor]. “There has been a negative perception of police in many communities for a long time. There just haven’t been conversations with these young people or in the media about it until recently. There hasn’t been an upsurge of disconnect with the police. With cellphones, there has been documentation of things that people have been talking about for a long time. People haven’t been believed, and now it’s hard not to believe it, if you see it on TV.…”
“It’s not as if this stuff hasn’t been going on all along for decades, but now it’s being captured for the world to see, and the few bad apples being captured on camera are ruining the entire tree of law enforcement,” says Hassan Giordano, 39, and a candidate for Baltimore City Council. “However, those very same people who have a negative opinion of police will also be the same ones calling 911 when they find themselves in an unsafe situation. It’s a catch-22.”
It's important to note that on the graphs shown in the article, even an A grade represents negative sentiment.
More data and a description of the methodology are available at DrugAbuse.com, including graphs of tweet sentiment involving alcohol, drugs, and marijuana. DrugAbuse.com used the commercial IBM service AlchemyAPI to analyze the tweets.
(Score: 2, Informative) by hemocyanin on Wednesday August 26 2015, @10:11PM
So were you a total corrupt dick? If not, how many total corrupt dicks did you turn in? If the answer is zero, you were a total corrupt dick. Maybe still are.
(Score: 1) by archfeld on Wednesday August 26 2015, @10:49PM
A wee bit judgmental and a fucktard as well. Nice to see you make snap character judgments based on 2 paragraphs. I can state that had I known any "corrupt total dicks", besides yourself, I would have reported them, but I only encountered some overly aggressive bullies who were failed cop-wannabes who should not have been allowed as prison guards.
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(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Wednesday August 26 2015, @11:03PM
Hard to believe the word of anyone who has been or is a cop.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Thursday August 27 2015, @06:37PM
Also hard not to dismiss anyone who, in the face of discussion resorts to personal attacks and name calling at the first opportunity.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @03:21AM
You think calling you a cop is a personal attack and namecalling? But, you were a cop, you already told us...
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Monday August 31 2015, @07:43PM
No, I think hemocyan's reply "So were you a total corrupt dick?" is a personal attack, and I'll have to stand by that one.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @03:30AM
"Reported them"? You were a police officer, your duty is to arrest criminals. Your duty was to arrest your corrupt coworkers, not "report" them. A badge does not make oneself above the law and impervious to legal consequences. Refusing to arrest them or acquiescing to their illegal and corrupt acts is a dereliction of duty and makes you a co-conspirator.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday August 27 2015, @12:12PM
sudo mod me up