School police union sells T-shirt "You raise 'em, we cage 'em"

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

More proof of the deeply rooted character of the police and cop unions that we hear about so much on this site:

NORTH HIGHLANDS, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California school police officers union has angered a town after it sold T-shirts with a picture of a child behind bars and the slogan: "U raise 'em, we cage 'em."

Town leaders said the fundraising shirts are highly offensive and fuel mistrust of the Twin Rivers Police Department in North Highlands, the Sacramento Bee (http://bit.ly/sDbEnl ) reported Tuesday.

"Unfortunately, this shirt seems to confirm that this is who Twin Rivers Police are and how they think, or at least some of them," Derrell Roberts said. "This doesn't speak highly of the culture of this department."

The Twin Rivers Police Officers Association officials said they came up with the T-shirt idea in 2009 to raise money for fallen officers. Less than 30 shirts were ordered and most were sold for $12 to union members.

Association President Arlin Kocher said the shirts were a mistake and that the union stopped selling them this summer at the police chief's request.

"I don't think this will be received well by the public, which is why we stopped selling them," Kocher said. "Our union, especially me, take full responsibility."

The Sacramento-area department has been under increasing scrutiny since one of its officers was shot four times on Oct. 22. The suspected shooter died hours later.

The department, which has 20 sworn officers, has had three cases in which officers shot and wounded suspects in the past two years, according to the Sacramento Bee.

Twin Rivers Unified Superintendent Frank Porter, who oversees the police department, said officials are meeting to decide whether to take disciplinary action.

"I am deeply disappointed that any of our employees would produce anything like that, even in their off time," Porter said.

[Aurora]

pfff amateurs, take some lessons from the IDF:

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/images/1shot2kills.jpghttp://www.ifamericansknew.org/images/durex.jpg

[Misanthrope]

Disgusting^^

[RadioRaheem84]

where's the link?

[MustCrushCapitalism]

Well that'll certainly help people to trust the fuzz. >__>

[The Jay]

Are those cops stupid? I've only had good experiences with cops but I'm the only one I know that's been so lucky. Cops are too taser/trigger/truncheon happy and I have plenty of friends who can corroborate that. My brother was jumped recently along with his friend by a group of twelve. When my brother got up after being stomped on he was tased and arrested. No-one else was arrested or tased. I have a lot more examples like this on top of knowing a lot of future cops and criminal justice majors. They aren't exactly ones that I would trust with upholding my constitutional rights. This story is just another stick on the pile.

[Rusty Shackleford]

A few months ago, a student at a N. Highlands school was shot dead by police after he was chased for not being at school during school hours. reportedly a pistol fell out of his pocket and he went back to grab it. I think the pig fired 6 shots at him.


http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/01/4020655/twin-rivers-police-association.html

[rundontwalk]

I'm more offended by the use of ''U'' as a word. :9

[Rusty Shackleford]

I'm more offended by the use of ''U'' as a word. :9
please be joking.

[rundontwalk]

please be joking.
Not really.

If anything I admire them for their honesty. Caging children is what they get paid to do after all. At least they aren't attempting to hide that fact.

[Rusty Shackleford]

...nevermind, im not going to even bother.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Are those cops stupid? I've only had good experiences with cops but I'm the only one I know that's been so lucky. Cops are too taser/trigger/truncheon happy and I have plenty of friends who can corroborate that. My brother was jumped recently along with his friend by a group of twelve. When my brother got up after being stomped on he was tased and arrested. No-one else was arrested or tased. I have a lot more examples like this on top of knowing a lot of future cops and criminal justice majors. They aren't exactly ones that I would trust with upholding my constitutional rights. This story is just another stick on the pile.
You've only had good experiences with police?!

Wow. Come spend some time in Atlanta for a while. I've been harrassed countless times by Atlanta PD and Dekalb PD, witnessed them stop just to beat up a homeless guy who was asleep on the side of the road behind a sign down on Boulevard near where it hits Freedom Pkwy, and a Dekalb PD officer beat the crap out of me at age 15 for walking with a skateboard in my right hand. He even told me that afterwards.

Not much context needed for that one. I was walking with my friends, two of them, we had our skateboards in our hands because we were cutting through a mall parking lot and didn't want security to come yell at us. I hear someone run up behind me, grab me by the hair, hit my face against the wall, pull me around and throws some punches into my ribcage and face, enough to have me bruised and kinda bleeding, then throws me to the ground. I look up and it's a FUCKING COP. My friends were standing there in shock. He looks at us and says "There's no fucking skateboarding here, do you understand me?!" and walks away. I'm dead serious. People I've told this story to always say "But you were skateboarding!!!" And I tell them "That's not a reason to beat up a 15 year old!!" Then they always come back with "I'd rather have gotten beat up than arrested," forgetting I did not commit a crime.

Here's another good one. Forgive me for the story length, but it needs a lot of context.

Two years ago I was about to get out of my car in a parking lot. Older lady, around age 70, goes to get in her massive Cadillac DeVille and slams her door into mine. I roll my window down and say "You hit my car, ma'am."

She replies with "Well it's your fault for parking so god damn close to my car!" so I get out and tell her I'm calling the police. She'd left a quarter-sized paint chip out of my door, and I was parked pretty much perfectly between the lines. It was actually her who had parked exactly on the line between our cars.

She starts her car, so I stand in front of it. WHILE I'M ON THE PHONE WITH 911 SHE RAMS ME OUT OF THE WAY. I don't get rolled over by fucking chance of where I landed on the ground. I grab my phone (dropped it) and get up in time to see her license plate.

Cop gets there about 30 minutes later (great response time, guys). Acts indifferent about everything. Asks me to explain what happened 3 or 4 times. Then shifts his focus to "Why were you here? What were you doing out here? You were getting your hair cut? Why wouldn't you get your hair cut closer to where you live? Tell me why you're over here again?" and so on. It was kind of a rich area, and at the time I was driving a 91 Honda with mismatched color body panels, so the cop probably assumed I'm a hoodlum looking to start trouble with the nice residents. He finishes up his piggy-piggy bullshit and gives me a card with the case number then tells me to go to the precinct after a few days.

So I go there when he says and I get the biggest surprise yet ... bigger than being rammed by a Cadillac. The fucking pig SAID NOTHING OF ME BEING HIT WITH A CADILLAC IN THE REPORT. The lady had apparently been contacted afterwards, and she told them I had a gun!! I was wearing tight-fitting jeans ... there was no room for a gun in those pants. The report mentioned she was then advised on how to press charges AGAINST ME for simple assault because of the alleged pistol I was apparently waving around in the parking lot.

I went to the courthouse to speak with a judge. He told me I'd flat-out lose if I tried anything. I'm 'some punk 20-year old going against a nice old lady who's done nothing wrong'.


I HATE THE POLICE

[ModelHomeInvasion]

pfff amateurs, take some lessons from the IDF:

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/images/1shot2kills.jpghttp://www.ifamericansknew.org/images/durex.jpg
Are these real?

[Aurora]

Yep
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7960071.stm
http://www.haaretz.com/news/idf-soldiers-anti-palestinian-t-shirts-are-tasteless-1.272712

[The Jay]

Fuck Israel, and fuck cops. This thread makes me so angry that I want to change it all now, but you can't change a society overnight. The question is, what are we willing to do about it? Do we have to wait for revolution or do we go to our occupy movements and voice ourselves. That's not all we could do, we could require cops to wear wires at all times with a bill we could collectively draft (yuk, reform but it's better than nothing right now). If there's anybody more experienced with this type of thing let me know and I'll do my best to get this thing done with you.

[Ocean Seal]

I for one am not offended by these shirts. They are the first cops to be genuine about their roles. We as socialists need to encourage the truth. Even the cops are willing to tell us that they are part of the prison industrial complex, why miss out on this opportunity. Its as if they made expensive shirts for the bourgeoisie which read: 95% of your work is our profit. Or check out this T-Shirt Its worth more than the average American makes in a year... and I have 12 of them!

[piet11111]

I'm more offended by the use of ''U'' as a word. :9

Spell-cheka strikes again and totally inline with the messed up politics too.

[kid communist]

Just another reason to hate cops.