Jon88
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Helped out during the Rodney King trial...to create a riot.

do I think the majority of police are inclined to be violent and I really don't think so.
I don't know if anyone would say the majority of police are inclined to be violent. But even a couple of bad apples in a police force can cause a shit ton of problems. It's funny because the officers I play softball with down here can name the same bad apples by name that I can as an attorney. Yet no one can get rid of them because the only complaints are by "criminals" and there is no video evidence.
I still can't get past the irony of a board full of people who distrust their government but trust their police.
That is true in most any profession. In your own profession there is a bad perception because of a few but is that reason to denigrate the entire group? Your reply may be that even bad attorneys aren't violent but their actions can devastate the lives of some people. The unfortunate truth is in almost every endeavor there are bad seeds that taint the masses. The system however still is beneficial to the majority.
I still can't get past the irony of a board full of people who distrust their government but trust their police.
"Full of people"? Name them. I'm expecting at least 15 names.
You're implying that the police are just as corrupt as our gov't, and I absolutely disagree with that.
I would say in my case at least the Missouri Bar has far greater ability to monitor such things in my profession. You also don't get the band of brothers mentality in the legal profession where each lawyer will stand up for the next one regardless of what they did. You see a lot of that with officers.
That's hilarious. Since they enforce the laws our corrupt government makes, a lot of their actions are the end product of corruption, however noble their personal intentions are.
Lawyers do help out the profession as a whole. They write the laws and make themselves more and more necessary with more and more laws. Your predecessors made it illegal to practice law without a quarter million dollar legal education, denying the poor and middle class access to legal defense by driving the price into the realm of only the very rich. It kind of sucks that Americans don't have rights, just the option to buy them from you if we can afford to pay the value of a small house for a defense attorney that will put forward a good faith effort.
Are you implying that public defenders do not give an adequate defense?
In all seriousness you guys with your $2,000.00 TVs on this message board can certainly afford an attorney.
So, they are just doing their jobs. So noted.

Seems like every Nazi caught post WW2 has used that defense.
So, you're now comparing cops to Nazis. Nice.