What can Catholics do to stand up against police brutality?

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EVERY hierarchy contains some sort of corruption. That doesn’t mean the whole system is corrupt. Police officers should be trained better and the ones who do things that aren’t in accordance with the law or their job, should be fired or jailed. Just like every other citizen.

I see a lot of manipulation by leftists. Police brutality is not as bad as they say it is. They just want to feign oppression because they hate authority.
 
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I don’t know if this helps, but Internal affairs is no joke. We can make reports with them if there has been some abuse. We can get a permit and peacefully demonstrate, we can write the paper, the Mayor’s office, the Governor’s office of__________, we can call the city desk at the newspaper, all kinds of things.

As Catholics, we should know the power of prayer, of the rosary. There are many things we can do, what we cannot do is resist, or turn a normal traffic stop [when most cops get shot] into a demonstration. Just my .02!
 
Well you should address your judicial dissent to the Minnesota court, then. Let us know how that works out for ya!
 
I don’t even want to be moving around getting my wallet out, registration out, etc. while I’m stopping or at any time before they ask me to. I’ve read that cops just see hands moving around and it makes them suspicious, or apprehensive.
 
Yet they want total government control of everything. Rather bizarre.
 
2towers said:
I don’t know if this helps, but Internal affairs is no joke. We can make reports with them if there has been some abuse.
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Upthread I linked to a local news report in which a reporter attempted to file a complaint against a police officer at various precincts in Florida. It is alarming to watch the camera footage of him getting repeatedly bullied out of it. I would like to see somebody research how widespread this problem is in our country.

I fully support reporting problem officers, but the process needs to be simple and unintimidating. If filing a complaint directly isn’t feasible, I would support some other measure of independent oversight, such as another agency taking the complaints.

I’m editing to add that I appreciate your other suggestions.
 
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I think our police are doing an excellent job under very trying circumstances. I always thank them for their service when I see or interact with them.

I miss the days when being a police officer was a respected profession. Anytime a person is disrespectful to an officer, they deserve to be roughed up a little.
 
HolySpirit said:
Anytime a person is disrespectful to an officer, they deserve to be roughed up a little.
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So people deserve to be assaulted anytime an officer takes umbrage at something they say?

Screw professionalism, I guess.
 
Really tell that to my brother who went through a lot of education, ie Criminal Justice, Psychology and ect and the police academy adter College to get into the Chicago Police Dept.
 
Those instances are few and far between. Everyday year there are several hundred thousand interactions between police and civilians. Abuse takes place in a few. It is statistically insignificant.

If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime. Avoiding an incident comes down to 2 things.
  1. Not committing crime.
  2. Not showing proper respect.
If you do these things, you have zero to worry about.
 
You are correct! My brother went through a lot college and university education to become a law enforcement officer.
 
I am just waiting for the time when police decide they are going to stop policing neighborhoods in the inner cities because the risk is to great for them to be shot, accused of brutality like BLM does to them. The law abiding citizens in those communities will end up being the ones that suffer when that happens from gang violence and other crimes. I hope it does not come to that but I would not be surprised if it does.
 
Can’t muster up the interest, sorry. Beating a dead horse and all.
When a cop says don’t reach-- don’t reach!
 
HolySpirit said:
  1. Not committing crime.
  2. Not showing proper respect.
If you do these things, you have zero to worry about.
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That is demonstrably untrue. I’ve posted about two cases where innocent people where gunned down by police as they were following instructions. I could post more, but I’m sure you’ll find a way to ignore those, too.
 
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