It’s not a crack. This is a grand canyon scale chasm. The decline of the opinion of the police closely follows the release, and reporting, of crimes, and other unethical behaviors, of police. When BWC first started, it was a boon to the reputation of police. However, as the general public has been more able to record police themselves, which strips the police’s control of the who, when, how, and editing, of the recordings the public sees, the opposite effect started to happen. Now the police are working, furiously, to prevent people from recording them, from publicly releasing recordings of police for various reasons, making it harder, if not impossible, to attain BWC footage, and straight-up stopping the use of BWC. A lot more than that is going on. There has been a deluge of leaks of internal communications, amongst authorities, across the country, that are clearly stating that the cops should continue using unconstitutional practices, and that the government, at least locally, would have their backs. Then there is the leaking of footage from some of the most popular training regimes, and conferences, for police that are way out of line, showing they are clearly being trained to view the entire public as the enemy, and that it is fine to kill people, because the cop going home at the end of the shift, is the most important thing there is. This is just the tip of the iceberg of reasons why the police are losing favor.
The police, the courts, the legislature, are who is responsible for the public outcry against the police. Not Russia, not China, not any foreign power.
You’d have to be a real dumb piece of shit to be a cop. They enforce unjust laws on people for a paycheck and brainwash themselves into thinking the general public is the enemy. They do nothing but ruin people’s lives. I’d rather they go after employers and landlords who rob people blind. I’d rather have free access to healthcare than their “protection” I’d rather fend for myself than give up all of my rights in exchange for a false sense of security.
Yeah, I agree a lot of them are kind of dumb, many of them are power tripping assholes. Doesn’t mean people should be ADVOCATING FOR THEIR FUCKING MURDER.
They do nothing but ruin people’s lives
Complete horseshit. If you actually think that maybe you’re the one who’s real dumb.
They always add additional charges and upgraded charges on people when they arrest them. Destroy property, inflict pain, some places your landlord is required to evict you if you get charged with certain crimes even if you’re later find not guilty or plead down to what you actually did. Getting arrested will quite literally ruin your life and that’s their literal job.
I wish. There was that one cop was put away for defending a woman from SA a year after snitching on his fellow officers. His laywer said never heard of jail time for 1st time misdominer. They literally put him in a cell with a known cop killer. Who said naa this is one of the good ones.
Why would I think of something better than a strawman when replying to a strawman?
As I said in another post: Cops protect the bourgeois, white-supremacist, colonialist, patriarchal state by enacting violence on the ruled class. That’s not a judgement: it’s their purpose in the system.
Individuals with bully-like personalities self-select into that job, while decent people are actively shunned. Because group cohesion is more important than “doing the right thing”.
Oh no, I’m American and just been walked through the system too many times to believe in it. They’re terrorists and calling themselves your protectors.
My guess is its Kremlin propaganda, the same divisive stuff they pushed during the George Floyd riots
No man, there is plenty of organic distrust of the police here. The whole legal industry is fucked.
Sure, that’s how they work. They find a crack and use a wedge.
It’s not a crack. This is a grand canyon scale chasm. The decline of the opinion of the police closely follows the release, and reporting, of crimes, and other unethical behaviors, of police. When BWC first started, it was a boon to the reputation of police. However, as the general public has been more able to record police themselves, which strips the police’s control of the who, when, how, and editing, of the recordings the public sees, the opposite effect started to happen. Now the police are working, furiously, to prevent people from recording them, from publicly releasing recordings of police for various reasons, making it harder, if not impossible, to attain BWC footage, and straight-up stopping the use of BWC. A lot more than that is going on. There has been a deluge of leaks of internal communications, amongst authorities, across the country, that are clearly stating that the cops should continue using unconstitutional practices, and that the government, at least locally, would have their backs. Then there is the leaking of footage from some of the most popular training regimes, and conferences, for police that are way out of line, showing they are clearly being trained to view the entire public as the enemy, and that it is fine to kill people, because the cop going home at the end of the shift, is the most important thing there is. This is just the tip of the iceberg of reasons why the police are losing favor.
The police, the courts, the legislature, are who is responsible for the public outcry against the police. Not Russia, not China, not any foreign power.
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No, you’re ignorant.
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I’m not an idiot, but you are an asshole.
You’d have to be a real dumb piece of shit to be a cop. They enforce unjust laws on people for a paycheck and brainwash themselves into thinking the general public is the enemy. They do nothing but ruin people’s lives. I’d rather they go after employers and landlords who rob people blind. I’d rather have free access to healthcare than their “protection” I’d rather fend for myself than give up all of my rights in exchange for a false sense of security.
Yeah, I agree a lot of them are kind of dumb, many of them are power tripping assholes. Doesn’t mean people should be ADVOCATING FOR THEIR FUCKING MURDER.
Complete horseshit. If you actually think that maybe you’re the one who’s real dumb.
They always add additional charges and upgraded charges on people when they arrest them. Destroy property, inflict pain, some places your landlord is required to evict you if you get charged with certain crimes even if you’re later find not guilty or plead down to what you actually did. Getting arrested will quite literally ruin your life and that’s their literal job.
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I wish. There was that one cop was put away for defending a woman from SA a year after snitching on his fellow officers. His laywer said never heard of jail time for 1st time misdominer. They literally put him in a cell with a known cop killer. Who said naa this is one of the good ones.
This one time a bad thing happened so now its OK to advocate murder
Sure, all the police violence incidents are “individual outliers”. /s
Can you think in anything more nuanced than anecdotes and sweeping generalizations? Got anything better than a strawman to respond with?
Why would I think of something better than a strawman when replying to a strawman?
As I said in another post: Cops protect the bourgeois, white-supremacist, colonialist, patriarchal state by enacting violence on the ruled class. That’s not a judgement: it’s their purpose in the system.
Individuals with bully-like personalities self-select into that job, while decent people are actively shunned. Because group cohesion is more important than “doing the right thing”.
Why do you defend cops so much?
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Oh no, I’m American and just been walked through the system too many times to believe in it. They’re terrorists and calling themselves your protectors.