fyi and whatnot. bummer, but I’m sure we could see this coming. Also, I’m nominating “Hot Springs Internal Affairs” as oxymoron of the month.

9/11/01 – 23 NYC cops unfortunately die & cops around the world rally to support their fallen brothers (& sisters?).

2/4/99 – 4 NYC cops shoot an unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo 41 times and are not charged – as far as I remember no cops around the world banded together to show disapproval of the decision.

The unfortunate truth is that the most well-intentioned cops are part of a corrupt institution and it’s hard to hold them personally accountable but until enough good cops stand together against the bad ones to change the system, the Police will still be a huge thorn in my side.

With that said, I’d still call them if I caught someone breaking into my house… but only to collect the body.

the thing i hate about this, which is pretty much everywhere, is everyone saying “fuck the police” or whatever, when it should be “fuck that police officer”, i don’t know, cop hating, whatever. there’s a lot of meathead cops, there’s also a lot of guys who would put their lives at risk to save yours without thinking about it.

Dear Mr. Southard,

After seeing a video of one of your fellow officers manhandling kids for skateboarding, I cannot help but feel utterly disgusted and have the upmost contempt towards the Hot Springs Police Department.

Provided that there is always two sides to the story, I cannot see any fault on the skateboarder’s part that would warrant such force. I hope Officer Williams feels that much more of a man for violently aphrending kids that are ostensibly a third his age and a third his weight.

Good on ya’ Officer Williams and good on ya’ Hot Springs PD for raising the finest crop that law enforcement has to offer. I’m very sure tax payers are content knowing that their hard earned money is going to beating up kids.

I’m quite sure you’ll be flooded (if not already) with emails far and wide preaching the absurdity and innapropriateness of Officer Williams’ actions. And I hope that both Officer Williams, yourself and the HSPD are comforted knowing that in this day and age, thanks to the digital era, this incident will be seen by virtually every media outlet across the globe.

God willing, I hope you take appropriate actions and Officer Joey Williams is reprimanded in some manner for what is clearly an abuse of authority and power.

Nicholas Chen-Yin