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[QUOTE="ssbriefcase, post: 2603099, member: 883"]
I really didn't want to derail the whole NFL thread, but sometimes these things cross, and here we are.  I'm all for accountability from everyone.  There are plenty of community celebrities that call out the problems of their communities, but it's not publicized enough.  The communities are very well aware of the problem people, and that's why when there's crooked cops involved it becomes making a terrible problem worse, on the level that cops are supposed to uphold the law and serve and protect.  Again, criminals are just that, the cops are supposed to be "better" than the bad guys.

One example on a micro scale, back in the days when crack took over and violence went to extremes, our neighborhoods were patrolled on foot by a group called Mad Dads, when they came down literally the middle of the street, no one gave them problems because those guys meant business.  They didn't do this for publicity, no one really knew about them unless you lived in those places, they did it because they were sick of what was happening to their community and their children.  Just one example, there's plenty of citizens doing those types of things or other efforts, but it's not enough drama, so it goes mostly unreported.
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