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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) by tathra on Thursday August 27 2015, @03:23AM
every single one of those 780,000 cops are willingly participating in a criminal conspiracy the instant they refuse to arrest their corrupt coworkers; in addition to conspiracy they also are all guilty of dereliction of duty and perverting the course of justice. until this changes, there is no such thing as a "good cop", they're quite literally all criminals.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday August 27 2015, @02:09PM
You're assuming every single one of those 780,000 cops has a corrupt coworker. Sounds to me like you've already formed your favoured conclusion and you're sticking with it.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Thursday August 27 2015, @06:50PM
generalize much ? What have you done to help the situation besides hurls stones ? Have you ever tried joining a civilian over-site panel or done ANYTHING but whine in a public forum ? I'd bet not. Every citizen who sits idly by and does nothing is just as much to blame...
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