Opinion Talk

By Ed

May 2, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this

Surprise, surprise, surprise. Atlanta police department have corrupt officers who have lied, planted evidence, shot an innocent elderly, 92 years old to be exact woman. If she was a young black woman, they would have gotten away with it. In my humble opinion, no-knock warrants should be abolish period. There should be some kind of standards on how warrants are issued. There should be some kind of accountability from top to bottom when officers commit crimes. It seems there is a lack of leadership in the Atlanta police department, Chief Pennington has brough the same kind of leadership he demonstrated on the corrupt New Orleans police culture. The Feds have stated the investigation will continue, when the dust settles, i hope there will be more indictments, resignations, and firings. I beleive justice will never be done in behalf of Ms Johnston until the culture of corruption is completely removed from the Atlanta police department. I hope the Johnston family will sue the city for at least 50 million dollars, that will send a clear message the police will be held accountable when they commit crimes just like common criminals.

By Jud Daniel

May 2, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this

I agree with Ms. Tucker completely. It gripes my butt when I am watching “Cops” on tv and it is about stings on low level drug dealers. The amount of time and expense involved to get usually just a small baggy or two of drugs off the street is ridiculous. Seems every time lately our government declares war on something or someone, we lose.

By staci

May 2, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

What’s even sadder about this are meeting quotas became more important than the life of a human being. There are many invisible hands guilty in the slaying of Ms. Kathryn Johnston and others who have endured similar instances like this, where cops have become rogue and corrupt in this WAR ON DRUGS and other tactics they’ve stooped to. Believe it or not, in some capacity, these tragedies are taking place all over America. But this is what happens when so much power is alloted to mere humans where there is no oversight or accountability just as long as quotas are met and SOME of the public think they are being made safe. Several lives have been ruined, the cops and their families. The victims of these missteps and their families. A profession that no one no longer trust anymore. Cops on the streets of America have been allowed to become judge, jury and executioners without the benefit of a trial. What’s even sadder is that some police officers referred to Ms. Johnston as a “turd” when this story first broke and APD were tryin to backtrack and cover a* to divert their guilt. Some were quick to believe the police and that a 92yr. old woman actually had drugs in her house. This is a sad period for America and Americans all around. But many of these cops are part time soldiers having served in Iraq and Afghanistan who are returning to their full time jobs as cops in America, bringing back with them the mindset and things they committed in Iraq and Afghanistan to those innocent civilians and bringing it home with them. That “WARRIOR” switch has not been turned off yet and I fear it will only get worse if brakes aren’t put on and put on QUICK!

By natalie

May 2, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

The soul purpose of power is that at some point it will be abused. When so much power is given to mere men, we can only expect it to be abused. The tragedy that happened at the hands of cops turned bad in Atlanta is taking place all across America. The problem needs to be addressed on a national level and not just on a local level in Atlanta. This so called WAR ON DRUGS are killing more innocent people than the drugs are. It’s breaking up families, especially minority and black families in a way that even slavery, during and post, failed to do because minorities and blacks have become a target. Young black males especially. Sometimes I think this is why America always placed a black person in charge of these matters because under a black person very few will consider these acts racism. If this had been a white police chief in charge, NAACP and other groups would have been swarming all over and Kathryn Johnston would have died of old age instead of being gunned down in the privacy of her own home. Blacks in high positions need to learn the difference between being used re-enslave their own. They also need to learn the difference between being the invited guess and the main course of the meal! Too many blacks in high places are the main course and not the invited guess. And when things go downhill they are the ones who take the fall.

By RCH

May 2, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this

Even though I agree with Cynthia that the war on drugs at this level cannot be won,these are still laws that need to be enforced.If blacks make up the majority of those who sell drugs, then they are the ones who will be arrested. Should we do away with laws on illegal immigration just because most of those that are caught are Hispanic?

By CharlesBrown

May 2, 2007 12:32 PM | Link to this

Having been a soldier in the war on drugs I have an opinion. Legalize marijuana, continue and improve upon the use of drug court where treatment is used in place of jail. This program ahs been very successful. The sad fact about low level drug dealers is they do cause many quality of life crimes such as burglary and theft. Crack users rarely have jobs and will find ways to pay for their habits. Usually at the expense of family and friends. Igoring the problem will not make it go away. Also meth users and those arrested are 99.9% white yet there is no hue and cry over that. Race has no place in determining whether a crime is prosecuted or not. In life there sometimes are no easy answers. We live in an imperfect world in which not everything can be correct, ie. terrorism, drug use.

By Lawrence

May 2, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this

Cynthia and others are so wrapped up in their own preoccupation with race that they’re missing the point in this “war on drugs”. Poor communities of all ethnicities bleed every day at the hands of “low level drug dealers” and the addicts they supply. The KKK and skin-head neo-Nazis are not car-jacking, gang-banging, mugging, burglarizing, and w******* the black community into oblivion. Young black men and women - children, really - who’ve been enticed into addiction by “low level drug dealers” are destroying their own lives and dragging the entire black community down in their desperation to obtain that “small baggy” of crack. How often do we see the news of a precious black child taking a bullet through the head while two rival gangs of thugs shoot it out over who gets to sell “penney-ante” amounts of drugs on a particular corner. Does anybody really think dealers controlling million-dollar amounts of drugs are going to cruise neighborhoods at night selling dime-bags? They will use the same small local dealers used in poor white, Hispanic, and Asian communities to deal at the retail level, knowing that local communities will protect them and make excuses. This is black-on-black, folks. The KKK crowd just laughs and says “See what we’ve been telling you about those people”. Atlanta’s had a black mayor for, what, 30 years? This crap will continue for as long as it’s tolerated and regarded as somebody else’s fault.

By nancy

May 2, 2007 1:08 PM | Link to this

Leave it to the AJC to try and connect George Bush to the death of Mrs. Johnston…Typical

By DLandry

May 2, 2007 1:54 PM | Link to this

You took the words right out of my mouth Nancy! Ms. Tucker as well as most of this liberal rag of a paper just can’t say anything without bashing our president.

By Charles

May 2, 2007 2:06 PM | Link to this

I think Cynthia Tucker has hit the nail squarely on the head. “Police departments spend their time going after penny-ante drug dealers. It takes time and resources to build a case against crime kingpins, an effort that many police officers and their superiors don’t want to undertake.” If they would attack the source, originators, there would be no drugs for the person on the streets to sell.

Here is a little inside information about police officers like detective Mark Fuhrman, O. J Simpson case, Officer Laurence Powell, Officer Timothy Wind, Officer Theodore Briseno, and Sergeant Stacey Koon, Rodney King case, Gregg Junnier, Jason R. Smith, Kathryn Johnston case, are the pride and joy of their respective departments. They are highly respected among the top brass and officers. They are among the first called to serve and protect when crime is afoot. They usually understand the application of the law.

The public mistakenly sees these officers as bad apples. In many respects, they may be better than the other apples. Many citizens say that they know personally a lot of good police officers. The problem is that the public don’t know the aptitude of individual officers under departmental control or leadership. There is a decisive difference between the two.

The nations of the world produce nuclear bombs, power, to successfully neutralize the worlds’ police. So consequently, the worlds’ police go after so-called second and third world countries. Likewise, local police departments are conditioned to go after the penny-ante drug dealers, usually black men, who can’t fight back. The crime kingpins have power and are able to fight so they remain almost untouchable. Logically we will not see a change in policing in the world or at home anytime soon.

By Dave

May 2, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this

The “War on Drugs” was a 1980’s attempt for politicians to get elected. Just to one up each other, they kept passing laws making penalties incrementally harsher. Now most users of drugs spend more time in prison than a murderer. You cannot pass laws against addiction and expect it to stop. But now that the laws are there, they cannot be removed because a political opponent of whoever repeals laws can use that repeal as a political tool.

The only way we can change this is by changing society’s values. Either that or wait for a few generations of stubborn “just say no” believers to die off. My bet is that this won’t change for over 100 years.

By Ga Liberal

May 2, 2007 3:07 PM | Link to this

The problem here is two-fold. On one hand you have the neo-con mentality that people should be heavely punshied for their mistakes. Consequently, you have the laws like two-strikes and mandatory sentences laws that has only served to fill up the prisons mostly with people that committed low-level crimes. On the other hand you have procecutors that go for the throat and judges that are all too willing to grant no-knock warrents or meat out outrageous sentences because they want to appear tough on crime. This ensures their re-election and perpetuates the cycle of overly aggressive arrest, prosecution, and sentencing.

Only when drug addiction is accepted as a medical condition (an illnes to be treated) will we stop just throwing people in prison to rot. Only when this ‘tough love’ mentality is replaced with compassion and understanding will ‘no-knocks’ be unnecessary and little old ladies will stop being killed by over-reactive cops.

By lillian

May 2, 2007 3:07 PM | Link to this

I disagree with RCH. Blacks do NOT make up the most who sell drugs. More blacks are arrested because more blacks are targets. It’s the same as looking for vermin in haystack A, but overlooking haystack B. Now it may appear there are more vermin in haystack A because that’s where all the concentrations are leveled. When in reality there’s more vermin in haystack B if anyone took out the time to look. Which reminds us all of the crack VS meth craze. While America was so focus on crack because it was considered a drug used predominately by blacks, meth was exploding. It wasn’t until little white babies started being burned alive due to their parents overcooking meth that the focus changed somewhat. But we forget, Meth has been on the scene far longer than crack and is more deadly and addictive. Meth contaminates everything. Homes have to be condemned where meth labs have been set up. Children living in homes where meth is being manufactured have to be rushed to emergency rooms to be decontaminated. Lawyers defending meth users have actually been sicken from the fumes emitting from the skin of meth users’ sweat glands. Not to mention the damage meth does to the environment. Elvis Presely got hooked on meth whil serving in the military. Some like to minimize it by saying it was speed. But that “speed” had the same chemical makeup as todays meth. One of the most notorious meth users got his start in the backwoods of North Carolina (a white guy). He so fell in love with his own product and became his best customer, then graduated on to become a serial killer who has since been put down. Once addicted to meth you’re always addicted to meth. The only treatment available is to place the users on anti-depressants where some go on to abuse those anti-depressants. Soccer moms in upscale neighborhoods are meth addicts it’s been exposed. Even some of your most wealthy and prominent are addicted to meth. So to say that blacks use and sell more drugs is a product of sheer ignorance. Blacks are just easier targets for police to make their “quotas” and no one will ask questions until a Kathryn Johnston comes along and there will be another and another and another Kathryn Johnston. You can bet on it!

By shaun

May 2, 2007 3:10 PM | Link to this

Tucker is correct. The drug war in Atlanta is long since lost. The cops should just give up already. Atlanta is, and for some time has been, a wide open town. You want to raise kids, etc. away from the drug/crime culture do it someplace else. I’m glad that someone in the local media is finally being honest about that fact.

By Robert

May 2, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this

Sounds like a great idea. Let’s just give up enforcing laws all together. Who needs them anyway.

Give me an F-ing break! If you do the crime, you deserve the time. Stop complaining about cops doing their jobs by arresting those that are commiting crimes.

By anonymously

May 2, 2007 3:27 PM | Link to this

Blacks need to learn and understand that police will never enter your communities with kid gloves, no matter how minor or innocent the situation. Sometimes I feel blacks set themselves up to be abused. History has dictated that cops have never treated blacks fairly and justly in this country. It doesn’t matter that they place a black “scapegoat” in charge when such tragedies as Kathryn Johnston takes place to take the fall. Or use a black in charge as a cover. Blacks need to stop going up the the PLANTATION BIG HOUSE everytime they have a problem within their communities. Reach out to one another and solve their own problems. Stop demeaning your children so much to everyone and anyone who will listen. Talking about how bad they are. Calling the “dirty laundry”. Stop talking about how bad and dangerous your neighborhoods are and take the initiative to do something without always calling police. Your ancestors knew the dangers in involving others in your problems. Historically, the law has never been on your side. Your ancestors knew this. At the end of slavery, many freed slaves tried to get as far away as they could and proceeded to build their own communities away from their oppressors. Love your young men, black people. They are definitely targeted. America is trying to slither back into slavery and young black males are the target. If a Kathryn Johnston happens from time to time, that’s just COLLATERAL damage for some. That’s why southern jails are filling up overwhelmingly with young black abled bodied men. Outside of immigrant labor, there’s no cheaper labor than slave or prison labor. Since America will never officially call the system “slavery” again, they’ve embarked on a new system and it will all look justified. Love your children! Black People! Love your elderly. Stop! vilifying them before the world and to anyone who will listen. Remember, that young black male with the baggy pants and cornroll hair standing on some street corner and being targeted by police could very well be your clean cut child who keeps his hair cut neatly and wearing a button down shirt with khaki pants, or your grandmother. Remember, when it comes to being black in America there is NO discrimination. You’re ALL guilty of something in the eyes of many. No matter how upstanding, wealthy, prominent or hardworking you are. Just remember that the next time you want to say something negative on a radio station or national tv about that “dirty laundry”. It could very well be your own child that someone walks up to and shoot point blank in the head with glee that they just “shot them a nig*! Believing they just did a GOOD thing for society. Blacks have to stop being aiders and abetters in racism. Like the abused spouse who will subconsciouly do something to set the abuser off believing abuse is a form of LOVE. Even people from other countries come to America and learn to be racist against blacks even if they’ve never met a black person before in their lives. So black people DON’T contribute America’s racism, bigotry and bias which will always be there, by talking badly about your own. Because at the end of the day, Kathryn Johnstons and others like her will be the end result.

By Diogenes

May 2, 2007 3:32 PM | Link to this

Cynthia Tucker writes: “The result has been a war on black men and their neighborhoods — an invidious campaign that has placed black men disproportionately under law enforcement jurisdiction, ruining their chances for decent employment and virtually ensuring they have no legitimate means to support wives and children.”

This specious assessment fails on several levels — first, it wholly discounts the pervasive and devastating effects the drug trade has on lower-income black communities. Those effects were effectively described by a previous writer, so no need to re-hash here. Particularly, Tucker wholly discounts the fact that lower-income blacks could simply choose to say “no” to selling or buying drugs, and thereby avoid arrest and incarceration, and the supposed horrendous effects the enforcement of the laws has on their communities. The obvious fact that they CANNOT do so despite vigorous enforcement bodes extremely ill for any change in policy which stops or reduces the arrest of local dealers. Further devastation of lower-income black communities is sure to follow. And finally, these arrests stop black men from “support[ing] wives and children?” WHAT wives and children? WHAT support? Lower-income black communities have all but abandoned any pretense of a marriage-based society, such that black women look to the state as the “daddy,” not the biological fathers. Not a very significant factor in this debate, if you ask me.

By Texas Cowgirl

May 2, 2007 3:39 PM | Link to this

repsonding to, By Robert: “Give me an F-ing break! If you do the crime, you deserve the time. Stop complaining about cops doing their jobs by arresting those that are commiting crimes.”

Ans: The problem with that Robert, is that police have gone off the deep. They are committing more and more crimes themselves rather than solving or helping to solve the ills of society. We have cops out there who have just gotten a little too power crazed who are committing any and everything from extortion, drug dealing, to rapes and murders. Police can’t help to fix what’s plaguing society’s ills until it fixes its own ills from the inside. There are far too many cops committing crimes these days. In many ways, many have become far worse than the average street level criminal, because they are protected by their badge, uniform and sworned oath and the high praises of a society who believe they are incapable of doing any wrong, and have given them free reign. Just wait til your daughter or wife is forced to pull down her drawers and allow a rogue cop to have his way or go to jail when stop for a minor traffic violation. Don’t believe this has happened? Think again. It happens more often than America is willing to admit.

By name

May 2, 2007 3:48 PM | Link to this

Diogenes, It isn’t the drugs that are having a devastating affect on lower income black areas. It’s the REACTION and policing that have resulted in harming the black community even more.

Here’s an example and a comparison. When law started to focus on meth and make enormous arrest in the white communities and the foster care system started to burst at the seams from white children being placed in foster care, the tune was immediately changed and many counties started to opt for drug treatment rather than incarceration. They didn’t have a care about busting up black families and removing little black children from homes. But when it came to white families, no matter how poor and depraved, they didn’t like busting up and removing white children and placing them in foster care or leaving them without at least one parent. So YES! Racism has played a very big role in this WAR ON DRUGS. OH, yeah! And whites using meth are more likely to sexually abuse their children. But many will still have you believe that crack is more addictive than meth.

By Mark

May 2, 2007 3:52 PM | Link to this

Tucker, Even tho I despise your racist azz, I agree with you on this subject.

By RCH

May 2, 2007 4:04 PM | Link to this

Why are we making this a black -white thing. Crime is crime no matter who is doing the selling, which in most cases a poor people looking for a quick dollar.But will you allow that reasoning to distroy famalies beacause they are selling only a small amount?If Cynthia was mugged by a addict looking for money to buy a small amount, I think she would sing a different tune!

By Charles

May 2, 2007 4:06 PM | Link to this

I definitely agree with “anonymously.” The key to most of our problems is that our leadership has sold us out for money, status, fame, jobs etc. When you have an ethnic group with no way to survive but to depends upon others, it becomes a selfish game of survival for practically each individual of that group. Building black institutions and businesses centered on our survival is the answer.

It appears that we as a group are not smart enough to overcome this nappy-headed hoe-ish game appointed Black leadership is playing with the black masses. The masses of black people should declare that there will be no more integration. Not for racial reasons. We should declare it to root out traitors and pimps of the race. Their game is to deceive black people through integration. Integration has become the code-word for black neglect. Nothing else will suffice.

By RCH

May 2, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

Charles, Strange that you would say that. Koreans have been doing that for years and have been called racist. Are you going to put those shoes on now?

By shirley franklin

May 2, 2007 4:49 PM | Link to this

Anyone who breaks the law is the target. Small time dealers prey on communities just like big time dealers ruin countries. Make no mistake it is hard work to make the city safer and pushing Atlanta crime stats from the most violent city in America to #17 in 3 years deserves praise and 4 inch headlines. Most including me believed such progress was impossible. With the support and committment of the Atlanta community, the officers, Chief, APD leadership, Council and executive branch we’ve turned the corrner. MY job is to keep pushing. S Franklin

By MB

May 2, 2007 5:27 PM | Link to this

The old lady was just coladeral damage, and the ends justify the means, right Shirley?

By Charles

May 2, 2007 5:27 PM | Link to this

RCH,

This is possibly the only occasion that I will agree with everybodys’ uncle Bill Cosby. “Let them talk…”

By paul

May 2, 2007 6:15 PM | Link to this

I have long believed as you said the war on drugs was futile and misguided. Thank you for researching the stats. to confirm this. That was a breath of fresh air.

I agree that this has, in essence, been a war on Black men which has resulted in a disproportionate rate being sent to prison (modern day legal slavery). The judicial system is one of the biggest forms of institutionalized racism…ever.

Even though the judicial system clearly needs to be reformed I don’t like the ‘victim card’ Cynthia Tucker is playing. She said, “…ruining their chances for decent employment and virtually ensuring they have no legitimate means to support wives and children. Men with prison records are unlikely to be attractive job candidates.” This is a weak argument and almost justifies criminal activity. In my opinion, I think a more effective way to fight this war on Black men is:

In my opinion, the biggest problem facing young blacks is drugs (from drug dealing to using to the crime associated with it). We should all work to change this. My point is let’s not use the ‘victim card’ to make these necessary changes in a flawed system.

By mr. coleman

May 2, 2007 6:36 PM | Link to this

I agree if you do the crime you should do the time,but should’t the time you get be fair?Why should a 20 yr black kid get 25yrs for selling a $20.00 bag of crack but a 20yr old white kid from UGA gets caught with meth he only gets probation.Or some 50 yr old white man who is a child molester gets 5yrs. Thats the problem I have with this issue.That is why the jails are overcrowded with young black males who are in jail for low level non violent offenses.Instead of targeting these young black males in the ghettos doing petty crimes,why don’t the police go to some of these white college campuses and target all these white males doing petty crimes like underage drinking,meth use,date rape,giving girls the date rape drug,gambling,DUI,drag-racing,arson,cheating on exams,prostitution,illegally downloading music,hiring strippers,etc.But the police will only give them a slap on the wrist but would rather lock up up some $2 crackheads and $2 crack dealers.

By nellie

May 2, 2007 8:25 PM | Link to this

This was a tragedy waiting to happen, and it will happen again and again if brakes aren’t put on. This is what happens when we begin to value numbers and quotas over innocent human lives. I hope the person identifying herself as Shirley Franklin is an imposter. To imply that numbers are down and you’ve made improvements is the problem. Again, you’re valuing numbers over the innocent lives being ruined. Is Atlanta really safer? Or is there just an appearance of it being safer. Rogue policing all over America is creating more problems than it is solving. Doing more harm to our society than it is helping. What’s really changed? Drugs are still rampant all across America. Not even a dent has been put in the drug problem due to this WAR ON DRUGS. More families are being broken up and the incarceration rate has skyrocketed, especially of young black males. Black families are being busted up, destroyed and broken in a way that even slavery didn’t succeed at accomplishing. So, Ms. Franklin, if that is really you, what if anything has REALLY ACCOMPLISHED? In many ways, Blacks are worst off now than many were even before the Civil Rights Movement. Police can pretty much come into black communities and do pretty much as they please with no oversight or accountability just as long as the numbers look good. Unfortunately, no one took the time to pencil in the permanent and irreverasible damage being done to an entire generation of blacks which down the road will make Jim Crow, Lynching and slavery appear minor in comparison. Whose going to be around to vote for the future generation of blacks if a great segment of the black population is incarcerated? We now have all this GREAT BLACKNESS or all this BLACK GREATNESS in high places and position where they could make things better yet, overall, the black community is deteriorating at an alarming rate.

By no name

May 2, 2007 8:41 PM | Link to this

I agree with you Mr. Coleman. I have a relative who has lived in a pred. white neighborhood for over a decade and the things she’s seen young white males get away with are mind boggling. A cop can past by a white male committing a crime on the street and he will wave and keep on going. Then go on down and see a young black male innocently walking and he will stop the black male and ask him for ID then proceed to frisk him and rough him up just for added measures. For anyone to think this alone isn’t psychologically castrating these young black males and leading to negative outbursts shows their ignorance. Then they will proceed to accuse blacks of always trying to play the race card or living in the past. Well, He!! the past never went away. Things are no better today than they were prior to the Civil Rights Movement in many areas, and when the police were heavily openly KKK.

By Charles

May 2, 2007 9:35 PM | Link to this

Well said Mr. No Name. There is one critical element I believe is missing from your assessment. The Black complicity component is hurting us more than the obvious overt and covert aggression by others. Marcus Garvey of the UNIA once said, “There are some Negroes who will lick the very spittle of white people if asked to do so”.

The Honorable Marcus Garvey practically begged the integrationist Negroes in behalf of the masses not to help the FBI and others destroy his organization, UNIA. His organization gave the masses of black people real power, meaning, and direction in life. The integrationist Negroes decided to assist the FBI which spelled disaster for the UNIA and the masses of black people to this very day.

Marcus Garvey realized that the integrationist Negro organizations decided with the FBI. He cried out to the masses of black people, “You are on your own now.” From that point forward, we have had only two black organization concerned primarily with the interest of the masses of black people, The Nation of Islam, under the leadership of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I will not name the second one.

By Jack

May 2, 2007 9:57 PM | Link to this

Not go after the low level street dealers? Are you f…ing kididng me? I live off of Ponce and drive near down the street towards City Hall East and watch penny ante drug dealers work their illegal craft on a daily basis and it sickens me. The human debris and cost to our city in additional services is huge becuase they dealers are dishing out their addictive substances creating more dependancy and in some cases drug induced zombies.

then waht happens is these crack heads wander down my street and teh streets of my neighbors smashing windows for lose change in our cars or whatever else they can find. Bust these dealing b******* and thos who purchase their illegal drugs.

if one thinks these low level drugs dealers are not a problem obviously don’t live in the city.

One last point, not every city deals with these kinds of bad decisions or corruption in the police department. Just maybe if Atlanta hired competent leaders then this would not be an issue.

By GeezGuys

May 7, 2007 4:23 PM | Link to this

Jack, what’s the difference between the legal drug dealers at Green’s Liquor Store on Ponce and the illegal drug dealers a block away? The price of crack is artificially inflated because it’s illegal. That’s why those crackheads break into your car.

Police are overwhelmed and subject to corruption when they spend all their time on the Drug War. Maybe if they weren’t spending so much time and paperwork on people who are addicted, they’d have time to arrest people who break into cars. The jails would have space to hold offenders who commit crimes like assault and purse snatching.

And if you don’t think there’s corruption in other cities, you’ve been inhaling too much second-hand crack.

Two last numbers and one last word that you might learn from: 18th amendment.

By rps

May 10, 2007 10:14 AM | Link to this

There are two ways to go about making changes. You want a more professional police department, raise the pay. Atlanta my rank high in the state, but officers and firemen can’t even afford to live in the city that they are suppose to give their lives for. The city demands arrests from the officers, then when things go wrong, the tree limb that the officer was standing on gets cut from the trunk.

The second way to change is vote in a city coucil and mayor that are crackheads, but I think that we are half way there personally, and have them legalize drugs. Then they can abolish the “ATLANTA POLICE STATE” and all the horrible cops who protect you while you sleep.

But when this city burns for the second time, and it won’t be sherman, it’ll be the hopped up drug addicts who just needed treatment, don’t worry about calling the police w/ the “warrior switch” because they will all be living outside the perimeter in Cobb, Cherokee, Forsyth, Henry, and Coweta.

Ninty-five to ninty-nine percent of cops are out there doing their jobs with concern for safety and civil liberties, but there are bad apples. But ninty-five to ninty-nine of liberals are intelligent and don’t think legalizing drugs is a good idea. The only problem is that somehome the 1 percent decided to post about this article.

By mike

May 12, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this

go after the big s. american ,mafia and other non black money men too.and start locking up the white customers from the suburbs.they keep the game going too.that means white girls too.