Consider the police defunded

I mean, they must be saving funds on overtime and staffing. 🥴

https://www.axios.com/2022/08/08/police-department-staff-shortage

Why it matters: The shortages have coincided with a spike in crime across the nation.

I like how they infer a spike in crime amid police shortages is in any way coincidental.

I don't know, I agree police lunatics had gotten ridiculous. The outrage was completely justified.

But we need police. Seems like the only ones who take the work are corrupt types, the honest types probably find better jobs at Amazon or something..

Consider me with a gun putting a bullet in your brain.

Imagine if they trained police in handling stress and maintaining composure under pressure instead of training them to lie and try to violate people's rights. Maybe then they wouldn't be so detested and then they wouldn't feel that they're continually under threat from the public.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Imagine if they trained police in handling stress and maintaining composure under pressure instead of training them to lie and try to violate people's rights. Maybe then they wouldn't be so detested and then they wouldn't feel that they're continually under threat from the public.

Rot usually starts at the core.

You know about Frank Serpico? They made a movie about him, played by Al Pacino. Essentially, everyone treated him like a nut for turning down guaranteed but dirty money and wanting police authority held accountable. Now say you actually did manage to clean all that up, what motivation is left?

Tons of OT, typical bs from higher ups, danger of life and limb, and everyone hates you. Why not just become a postal worker instead? Or a truck driver or even a bus driver (They get paid 80k in NYC I hear)

Originally posted by cdtm
Rot usually starts at the core.

You know about Frank Serpico? They made a movie about him, played by Al Pacino. Essentially, everyone treated him like a nut for turning down guaranteed but dirty money and wanting police authority held accountable. Now say you actually did manage to clean all that up, what motivation is left?

Tons of OT, typical bs from higher ups, danger of life and limb, and everyone hates you. Why not just become a postal worker instead? Or a truck driver or even a bus driver (They get paid 80k in NYC I hear)

Defunding the police wasn't about corruption. It was about how they treat the public with absolute distrust and disdain which results in so many unnecessary shootings of civilians by police which results in more animosity which results in police being even more paranoid when interacting with the public. Most videos of shootings show American cops being panicky, reactionary and totally unfocused and out of their depth which results in terrible and often tragic decision making. It's painfully clear they get zero training in handling conflict situations. Especially where you see videos of them pumping literally hundreds of rounds into a car. Or the video of cop having an actual panic attack during a shootout.

On the other end of the spectrum this is uk police dealing with a report of an armed man in a supermarket

YouTube video

Completely calm going into an unknown situation. Asserts total dominance over the suspect within seconds. Goes back to calmly securing the rest of the building. Zero heavy breathing or panicky voice or letting adrenaline overwhelm him.

Compare that to this completely under equipped idiot.

YouTube video

As for the lying. Here's a perfect example. Tells the woman the reason she's being stopped is because she didn't have a seatbelt on. A complete and total fabrication. Audit the Audit and other channels have huge numbers of these types on blatant lying by police.

YouTube video

This just makes me want to migrate to the UK. 🙁

Maybe the rot is cultural. Social contracts used to be a thing here, the UK police apparently still believe in that, and likely benefit by it as they benefit everyone else.