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7 hours ago, DCG2020 said:

I have a question. I don’t know if this is the right place for it. I am a convicted felon. It was 9 years ago. My life was in shambles. I have since married and completely turned my life around. I am very concerned about the situation in this country. But, I feel helpless. As you all probably know, I can’t legally own a firearm to protect my family. I am now a hard working, tax paying American who made a mistake. I feel like my wife and son are paying for my mistake. Does anybody know of a way for me to get a pardon or something so I can legally defend my family? I’m in South Carolina btw.

See an attorney. A lot will depend on the actual crime, but it is very doable.

5 hours ago, Rascaldees said:

 

Most of the time, nothing outrageous happens. Think about how many tickets and citations are written every day. Wayne County Sherriff's Office writes over two thousand a week on their own. If police brutality was truly widespread we wouldn't need cameras because everyone would know about it. 

 

It's best not to blow this out of proportion. Are there bad cops? Hell yeah there's bad ones. But we also don't know everything. We weren't there. And furthermore the number of good cops just trying to do their job and earn their measly 22k a year far outnumber the ones that are shitbags. 

Myrtle Beach Police Department starts at $44k, Horry County Police start at $40k.

This isn't really about good or bad cops, but how heavy handed they have become in the last 25 years. I did a stint for 13 months as a special deputy in the mid 80's, and if I had dealt with people like they do on any episode of Cops, I would have been fired and faced possible civil actions. I left the department because of the scumbags, liars, and criminals that were employed there. I've seen deputies trigger VASCAR units early just to write a speeding ticket, deputies helping themselves to items in stores where there had been a break-in, lying under oath, and in one instance busting a guys head against the rain gutter on a Crown Vic for calling him a MF. The whole police mentality, then and even more so now, is "Us against them".

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely"

Just take a moment and think about what goes down in these encounters when it isn't filmed by someone.....