Ex-Cop: Cut Police Budget, Fund Jobs & Youth Services

1. #ftp #acab

2. Great interview..thanks

3. Larry has BALLS. Thanks for speaking the truth now Larry. I know it's hard to speak it when you feel threatened just by working there.

   Please stay SAFE, & consider writing for The Free Thought Project. They out cops all the time, & I encouraged them to start writing about the good cops too & so they started doing that now.

   Not many articles, but I've seen one or two in the last little while.

4. THIS JACKASS HAS NO CLUE YOUR A REPORTER? WOW DO U NOT KNOW IN THE CITY OF BMORE NOTHINF HAPPENS TO JUVENILES 4 JUVENILES 15 YEAR OLDS STOLE MY CAR. 1 I DIDN'T WANT THEM TO JAIL THEY WERE DAXING 7 FELONY CHARGES EACH. THE PROSECUTER SAID THEY WOULD NEVER FO TO JAIL . ALL THEY GOT WAS 1 SEESION OF COUNSELING.. YOUR DEAD WRONG U IDIOT LIBERAL FAKE LIBERAL

5. Boy…common sense!

6. Waiting for Baltimore police to "find" a drug stash on this good man in 3 2 1 …

7. This man is incredibly correct, on all his points.

   Cut the police budget by half. Get rid of the military shit; get rid 50% of patrol cars. Put that money into recs and everything else we need. The PAL centers were the best thing that ever existed here.

8. Very excellent interview, GREAT, and I hope plenty of police officers who listen to this will seriously gain, benitifing by improving. It's needed for society. Criminalizing people who aren't truly criminal is damn nonsensical. This former police officer, Larry, clearly knows what he's talking about and truly wants to be socially beneficial. Quite refereshing! I am observant, keeping eyes and ears open, in plenty of respects, for, yes, there're … dangers. It isn't stressful for me, for it's just part of my nature to be … careful. Imo, Larry is 100% right. Be THANKFUL that there sometimes are sane people among police. THANK GOODNESS!

9. I remember back when I was a teenager, people used to hang out at market night that happened once a week. My mom would send me down there to get fresh produce for her and I'd have to walk through the entire thing getting her various stuff. Now I have a disability that literally no one can see, but they are masses on my feet. I can walk for a while but then I need to sit down. For some stupid reason, the cops would make young people get up if they saw us sitting down anywhere. The only reason I found this out was that I had sat down next to an old man and was talking to him when police came up and demanded that I get up. I had already asked the old man if I could sit next to him for a bit because my feet hurt so he knew why I was sitting there. I started to get up and the old man told me to sit back down. He dressed that cop down, even calling him a young man. We have to learn to see one another as people. Teenagers are people. Cops are people. When we put up these divisions between one another, it creates the animosity that leads to all kinds of bad things. I'm not saying cops should just trust people and everything will be fine, but there's a difference between being cautious and assuming that a person is definitely out to get you. Everyone should view the cops in the same way. You should be cautious but you shouldn't assume that any cop you encounter is going to plant something on you, arrest you for nothing, or shoot you. Every group of people has people who will treat you well and people who will treat you like shit and sometimes how you interact with someone changes their attitude towards you. Nine times out of ten, if you treat people like people, they will treat you like a person back.

10. The police don't know how to deal with adults as well as children. Police trash…

11. Never says Black. Coward. He knows the "kids" he's referring to are targets no matter what they're doing. Funny how all these cops get a "conscious" after the pension kicks in. Guess it helps with book deals or PI work

12. Break the FOP Union. It’s a terrorist organization. Period.

13. Take away the V8 engines from the cops. and give them rice rockets. Arm mentally healthy citizens. Get rid of most of these non sense holidays. Implement police hour. No one should be out past 9pm unless you work at a hospital or government jobs. Shut the bars down at 8:45 pm These little rapers aka gangsters on all sides white black asian hispanic should be watching documentaries and studying history or something of that sort. Or just common sense. America is a shit hole country and takes in foreigners from shit hole countries.

14. The police should be mandated to interact with the youth. As in organised interaction….. So those kids that they interact with become their kids. How do you get a helicopter pilot to fly straight into enemy fire to get men off the ground same principle. Every cop 3 days a week doing whatever they can come up with. Police are diverse just like everyone else doesn't need to be all sports related.

15. Yes speak truth!! Instead of spending 100s of millions on turning our police departments into war equipped military states, spend money on education, recreation, activity programs.

16. No matter how beautiful, a dance, a hen dances, it will never appease d hawk. The police sees themselves as hawks and d teenagers as hens .untill that prizm is changed, there will always be chaos or misunderstanding.

17. We need more of this; ex-police officers stepping up to the plate and telling the truth. One blatant truth is that the Establishment Elite, knowing that they were in the process of a regime change here in America away from a democracy to a fascist state, under the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) and the (un)Patriot Act of George W. Bush (who belongs in both the Hague and in prison for the rest of his life for crimes against humanity), conscripted ALL of the police departments across the whole of the United States to become the private security force of the rich; to protect them so they could and do continue to loot the American public and enforce the creation of work/debt slaves domestically. While the police are suppressing their fellow Americans, the Establishment Elite are then free to pursue imperialism and regime change wars abroad. It is also a fact that the police have been appointed the down-field-blockers for the insurance industry here in the US. It used to be that if you had insurance (car/home/boat/storage locker/whatever) and you filed a claim, you had to deal with an in-house "Insurance adjuster". (See: "Rainmaker" with Matt Damon) But under GWBush policy, now you have to go through the police to legitimize your right to file a claim; (and the police have been trained that NOBODY gets to file a claim who isn't a member of the Establishment Elite.) The police have become the criminals, and as long as they insist on protecting the Establishment Elite then they are complicit in that criminal behavior and should be seen as culpable.

18. A lot of these kids are a threat because they are up to no good! Disrupting and disturbing the peace of OTHERS is a HUGE problem at the beach, at school, at park, at mall, at home. There is a mountain of evidence that mobs of teens are not well behaved but out looking for trouble. These minors should be supervised by an adult.

19. But… but.. entitled properties!!!!

20. Not just teenagers. They only respond this way to black youth only.

21. Hmmm, lashing out, ya that sounds like caged animals. Cops should know better than take it out on the kids.

22. Wow what a honest answer to the problems at hand.

23. This is how they fill their quota's for the industrial prison complex. Funny how that part was not brought up though. They target youth because a) they have less funds to fight any legal charges and are more likely to pass through the system and b) once a person is marked a "criminal" that ruins much of their future opportunities. It is a systematic problem created by big days for those running the prison systems, but they only get fed when per head so they came up with alternative methods to fill their prisons, regardless if those filling them rightly deserve to be there at all.

24. Love you Larry! Thank you for speaking out

25. This makes sense and keep abortion legal so that there are fewer unwanted children.

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