I finally realized what was ca
using this problem, when the cop smashed my face, into the door of his police car, where it says, “To protect and Serve.”
I first started wondering about the sudden rise, over the last few years, of unprovoked violence, assaults and murder, by the police in this country, the good old US of A. I didn’t want to believe it was because the police had suddenly become evil. I didn’t want to believe that it was a policy change, on the part of the authorities, that instructed officers to go out each day and be vicious to the citizens.
So why had they suddenly turned into vicious animals who seemed eager to inflict injury and death?
I began looking into this first at the administrative level. Clearly, here, there was a massive effort to justify any excessive use of force, but they were just trying to cover their asses. This was a serious problem, especially when police can murder an unarmed teen, charge the dead teen’s accomplice with the murder, and be rewarded by a two week paid vacation for the killing. This is an actual case in Illinois.
Under Illinois law, if any death results in the execution of a crime, including during apprehension, anyone involved in the crime can be charged for the death. This law allows the police to murder and place the blame on someone else. That must be changed, but this is not the cause of the violence, it is a separate problem.
I also found from a paper written by a law professor at a prominent university, that, according to his research, police officers lie an astonishing 80% of the time, under oath, in court, to conceal civil rights violations. Again a big problem, but not the cause of the rise in violence.
Thus far I have found serious corruption, but not a valid reason for the escalated violence, shown on the streets, by individual officers.
I also find that police seem to have become delusional, as far as the legality of filming them, in the course of their duty. Under the constitutional amendment of freedom of the press we have the right to record and monitor police activity. They seem to believe we don’t.
Again, this is a major problem but not the root of the problem.
When my face hit the car door, I came to a realization that I had seem this type of irrational violence before, with drug addicts, especially those on speed or methamphetamine. Couldn’t believe the police were doing methamphetamine across the country.
A few weeks earlier, I was at a gym and there were some off-duty police working out. One officer in particular, who had on a sleeve-less t-shirt had serious acne on his back.
Things still don’t gel till I read an article, on an alternative news site, that explains it all, but as I said, it all didn’t click till that cop bashed my head into his car door.
The article explained that New Jersey was starting a program, unfortunately controlled by the local polices stations, so mostly ineffective, to test police officers for steroid use. I read this story but still hadn’t connected the dots until tonight, when I was at a park, giving out sandwiches to the homeless, and the police rolled up and began man-handling my church group. They said we were breaking the law by passing out food in a city park. Of course we were outraged, so the police started getting violent. After my trip down to the police station for 3 hours and another 2 hours at the hospital getting by face stitched up, I went home and realized why the police have become so violent. They are taking steroids to give them a physical edge on the people they arrest. There also seems to be collusion, on the part of higher officials, in ignoring the fact of this nationwide drug abuse epidemic, by the police.
The police across America are abusing steroids, and that is why they have become more violent, ready to injure and assault, and yes even kill, the population, They are drug crazed. All the symptoms are the same, unprovoked violence, mindless slayings, irrational behavior and delusional perception of the extent of their authority, as your psychotic drug fiend.
I now believe the police have a serious problem with wide-spread steroid abuse and the American public have become the victims of their drug crazed behavior. Programs need to be started in every state to test for those drugs in police officers.
Our police officers who are sworn to serve and protect have become drug crazed thugs in a constant state of chemically induced hyper agitation, ready to snap at any delusional perception of crime, personal affront, or even peaceably videoing their action as is the right of the American people to do so. They have spun completely out of control and we need to have a congressional investigation into the use of anabolic steroids by law enforcement.
This has also contributed the rise in domestic violence by police officers and suicides. Just recently two NYPD committed suicide within eight days. I’d bet dollars to doughnuts an autopsy would show anabolic steroids in their blood at the time of death.
My research has also revealed that many police departments are in denial and refuse to even consider that their officers have a drug problem.
Until this is brought to the national attention it will continue and escalate with more deaths and injuries at the hands of the police including a spiraling suicide rate among their ranks.
© Rick Carufel 2012
