Brandon

I don't know about the culture not conducive to weeding out the bad ones, I've noticed a massive shift/change over the last five years. In Manitoba the WPS and RCMP are trained properly and we are fortunate to have professional and great police forces. In the States it's so much more difficult and so much variety in how each region trains and supports (financially) that some places are great and others not so much. Also the clientele across the States vary so much... I would assume being a patrol cop in Grand Forks would generally be safe and dull and for most police calls the threat of danger would be very low. Now compare this to Chicago where the homicide rate is really high and where if you are White/Asian and drive in the wrong area it's almost a guarantee that you will get shot/beaten to a pulp.... I imagine these officers cannot take any call lightly and can't be passive and assume that every suspect will go down nicely and is not a threat to shoot them. It's such apples and oranges and each situation is so unique that you can't criticize one cop for punching a guy down when another takes one down with only words. I saw a video yesterday (care of reddit 's subreddit of publicfreakouts ) where some big black dude is taking on three cops and beating them up and they are bashing his legs and trying to take him down but the guy is so messed up on drugs that nothing had effect on him. The dude is shouting and threatening everyone and is a huge threat to the public... sometimes the only way to take someone down is a massive beating or using excessive force. The other x-factor is human nature.... you can train people so much but sometimes training goes out the window. To compare it to football... we train our players to not get overly emotional and to not take bad penalties... how many times in the heat of the moment we see players take a dumb penalty.... kind of a weird comparison but my main point was that the only way we can have police officers to all remain calm and to follow the book 100% in all situations and to make on the fly decisions in an instant is if we employ a group of these guys:

I'll take a late October Grey Cup please and thank you

Had the chance to put the foot down .... might be the turning point of this series.

Can someone tell the Jets to score please!

In Walters we trust! I'm pretty sure with his track record that he'll make the right choice based on who is left.

Armia is an upgrade over Roslo so I'm not complaining.

You don't. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, it doesn't mean your opinion is correct. My main point was that you can't generalize everything because maybe once in a while something doesn't go right. As for you being a bouncer , you mentioned it on these boards. My example was to show that you can't assume everyone needs to change if 1 incident out of thousands is mishandled. If the news showed the 1000's of clean arrests that happen daily then the news would be pretty boring.

Aside from maybe the first two or three picks... the draft is always a crapshoot. It seems that nothing is guaranteed and just as many guys in the later rounds stick with teams compared to the guys drafted in the first few rounds.

I wasn't aware that Unknown Poster was a police officer? I'm not familiar with everyones incidents, but usually when you comply and don't resist .... you don't end up being thrown to the ground and hurt. The cowboys are isolated incidents and a very small minority of what happens in the world. I've witnessed and seen online many videos of bouncers who go way over the edge and beat the crap out of drunk patrons or toss these drunk guys face first into cement. Should I now suggest that all bouncers need to change? I think bouncers like Unknown Poster need to change merely because some adrenalized up bouncers thousands of miles away did something wrong?

No issues with that suspension...it was a dangerous hit.

Remember the depth we had the last time we were in the playoffs.... These issues are good to have.

You don't think a fringe team like Florida wouldn't offer him a 4 year deal for 6 - 7 million per year?

I'd assume Stastny will be gone mainly because Chevy wouldn't hand the guy a long term contract meanwhile a desperate team would...

I was going to post the exact same thing. I know Roslovic is the plan moving forward... but I'd really like for them to somehow keep Stastny for a few more years.

Nobody has a clue about any of these players so it's a bit hard to post anything about it.... Wait till training camp and *if* a few people attend and write reports... things will pick up then.

It's not only sportsnet... TSN featured an article about the GM on top despite the Jets playing...

What I assume is that Ford is throwing in the towel and can't compete with the imports for the sedan market. With the rising gas prices will people keep going forward with Trucks and SUVS?

Everybody has a price....

I watched the 3rd period and OT of the San Jose / Vegas game... I turned it off when I thought Vegas had won it in OT.... apparently I should be more patient. I thought San Jose looked gassed and so slow though... no chance in hell that if they beat Vegas that they can beat either the Jets or Nashville.

Didn't watch it. I did however watch the youtube clip of Sami Callihan smacking that guy in the face with a baseball bat in probably one of the worst conceived and executed spots. I also listened to Kevin Sullivan and checked out the gruesome photo of him after he was hurt by this same Sami guy. Sooner or later someone is either really going to get hurt or it will be another New Jack type incident where someone just stabs or beats the crap out of Sami...

Reminds me of Dennis Rodman going to North Korea and pretending like they were good people... silly stuff.

Hey it worked in Rocky 4 for bringing down communism!

I'd have no issue going out there since I am able to make decisions, try on clothes at stores, go for a swim, compete in sports, not have to cover myself in a black abaya, retain custody of my child if for some reason i married and got divorced over there, get plastic surgery, travel, open a bank account and I'd have more rights then a robot head. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/saudi-arabia-grants-robot-rights-that-women-there-dont-have/2017/11/01/e4a532b8-ba91-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.86927dc344d0 My wife wouldn't really like visiting though since she can't do any of the above and much more...

To quote you again: How can this be interpreted in any other way then you (Goalie) doesn't think it's a bad idea that women are treated inferior and that equality is over rated? No way you can dig yourself out of the hole, it's pretty straight forward. I just found it funny how you are trying to misdirect and back pedal on making a dumb statement.