This could bring back The Wire. Gang run police unit uses violence but protects certain gang members and takes out hits. Corruption, gangs, money laundering, bribes and payoffs to those in the know. Some victims are those who know too much..
That is a terrifying thing if true. If gangs have pull over the police department that city is screwed.
It is if true. I always just brushed it off as one of those urban legends Memphis kids would rattle on about. Lots to uncover still
I guess gangs in whatever form within policing isn’t exactly a new thing if you ponder on it for sec. Just look at what the KKK did
Wait, according to Twitter the old TV Judge Joe Brown is running for Memphis mayor? That’s something. I wonder if he actually has a shot? Perhaps Memphis could use an outsider at this point to come clean house whether it be him or whoever?
I consider the KKK, especially *THE* KKK from back in the day (maybe not so much losers jerking in their double wides that now call themselves KKK) to absolutely be a gang. Hell, maybe even the first gang that this country ever had…
We have to pay more and have a better pool of people to choose from. They leave every night for work with risk of not coming home that none of us can truly understand, and should be overcompensated. Better training, better applicants, better people, fewer issues which means more trust and fewer run ins, fewer chases.
If gangs have infested PD's white people might start becoming afraid of the cops. Will be interesting to watch that play out in policy changes.
there are plenty of white people who are terrified of and hate cops. They just aren’t the white folk you hang around with.
Good luck attracting the best of the best to take a dangerous and stressful job for 40k a year. Police have got to raise to their standards of who is allowed in while also significantly raising starting police salaries. You almost have to be crazy to accept a 35/40k a year new police starting salary in exchange for doing a job as stressful and dangerous as theirs. Cops, especially in certain areas, are exposed to the worst of humanity on a daily basis. That lifestyle would have to screw with you
This is true. Most white folks I know are conservatives who, anytime a cop executes someone, automatically says stupid shit like they had legitimate cause, and the person should have just listened and complied. Who, when further evidence comes out, continues to contort fact with fantasy to keep excusing the event as an "unfortunate accident". If they think the gangs are taking over, they might decide it's no longer a good idea for "the state" to have largely unlimited and unsupervised power. They might decide qualified immunity is anything but justice or that cops shooting first and asking questions later for being "disrespected" by a mere citizen in no position of power is not a good thing. They might decide all the deeply integrated and systemic issues within our justice system might need to be addressed. Or maybe not. Will be interesting to watch.
unfortunately they used to be the kind I did hang with, in SE Memphis, in the early 90s, Kirby and Winchester.
you really think IP you are one stop on way home from work from being murdered as you hand over your ID and registration with hands at 10 and 2? Really?
“Sweet! When’s the Netflix series coming out about it?!”-YT folk (many millennial & Gen Z YTs at least)
Not how I took it. I took it as, I am one really bad experience with the police from hating the police. Do I think I am likely to have a bad experience with the police? I think I am very unlikely to have a bad experience with the police.
