I agree that all that is happening in my hometown of New York is down right disgusting. I can't believe what happened after the parade (it was not during the parade or along the route of it). First let's not BLAME ALL New York City Cops - you can't go around saying NYPD just like you don't want people to say ALL BLACKS or Latinos - if you do this it creates the stereotypes that we all hate to hear! I have three NYPD officers in my immediate family and two neighbors and then a host of other friends in the academy right now. And if I have to I will vouch for these men and state that they are the epitome of Man Hood and they uphold their communities to the fullest. Okay now that I have let that off my chest - I can begin. On the day of the parade the police were very relaxed this includes all the police on Duty (black, white and yellow). I think Police persons (men/women) are now falling into a catch 22. We are in the day and age of suing Mc Donald's because the coffee is too hot. The four white policemen that shot Mr.Dillao (sp) ruined it for all! Police personal are tippy toeing around citizens now. If they so much as look at you wrong they can be called into the office and put on desk duty, -WHY well b/c we (you and I) feel they are picking on us. I think there needs to be a median. Whether we like it or not they are New York's finest and they are the ones (well most of them) putting their lives on the line for us! YES, it was wrong to stand by, but that's what Guliani and the commissioner probably told them to do..... now that's where the problem comes in. Back to needing a median, obviously the sensitively training is not working because officers are now too laxed. They need to respectfully take back the streets and live up to their name - how? Well I don't have answer for that right now. I simply wrote to say don't blame all the cops. I have seen the video tapes too, and I have yet to see an officer sitting around. Please listen to the other side of the story there are females that came forward and said they got adequate help from officers, but of course that part is overlooked. And the one's video taping committed a crime also, getting help would have been my main concern, it's true what that they focused more on torn clothes and wet T-shirts then on assailants faces or the faces of officers that were supposedly there doing nothing.
That's my piece -
LadyAKA
P.S.
1) Tell me if you seriously believe that the two women that are suing the city need 5 million dollars 'EACH' - come one - now that's a CROCK!
2) My last comment for now on this is: last Sunday during the incidents it was hot outside and women were dressed VERY VERY VERY PROVOCATIVELY , not saying they deserve to be assaulted but take some time to think if you would have put yourself in the position that those women did - and please don't hate I am just not afraid to talk the truth.
3) NO ONE DESERVES TO HAVE PROSTATE CANCER! - But things do happen for a reason and maybe with him leaving office and not running for the senate the NYPD can be reorganized and changed for the better!
[This message has been edited by LadyAKA (edited June 19, 2000).]
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