PROFILING THE COPS

[sad_sick_truth]

Growing up in the 1950's as I did, children were presented with images of the smiling policeman - a comforting if not altogether accurate depiction of law enforcement “officers” as human beings that you could rely on to help old ladies and children, as long as the latter were members of white, tax-paying families.

Recent years have yielded some

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[fluffyblanket]

This is a very important article and deserves a wide readership . Could you mail it to :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACLU
http://www.vii.org/afasinac.htm
?
When I was a kid in England a jovial local policeman used to give us children sweets whenever he saw us . Down here in Alicante the Policía Local are friendly . In the Comisería one of them referred to Franco's fascist police as "hijos de puta".
I remember being on a demo in Paris , blocked by the paramilitary CRS . They are like the sadistic , mindless psychopaths you describe . As you say - too much testosterone !

[sad_sick_truth]

Thanks, Fluff. I really should wait for it to appear in Fred Woodworth's anarchist journal, the Match before I spread it around too widely.

[liveonearth]

Permission to link assumed. Thanks for writing. Always.

[sad_sick_truth]

yep.