Yeah but Karen can't arrest me if she has a hissy fit lol. I want cops being cops too. When I was a kid and I saw a police cruiser drive by I would wave and say hi. Today I turn my back on them and ignore them. I want old school when people knew the police officers in their cities by name, but I also want changes. I want an absolute zero tolerance for no knock raids, civil asset forfeiture, military equipment, brutality and middle of the night crap. Even our local PD in western mass was red faced when people found that they were buying surplus grenade launchers from the military. That's not some trailer park podunk Arkansas, that's right here in Massachusetts. The craze for firepower is just as prevalent here as it is in some far away nowhere land.
I saw what happened during the BLM protests. I have a bat sh*t crazy city counselor here and when the George Floyd riots started he organized a protest outside my local police headquarters. I know you probably won't believe this but I actually stood up for the cops. I said to him why are you stirring the pot? We don't have a police problem here. Why are you trying to antagonize a problem? But what scares me is that increasingly police chiefs who are by their nature political animals will abide by the wishes of the mayor and city council and batsh*t crazy activists. Remember I like many other people here live in the middle of moonbat heaven. I thought to myself what if that nutty city counselor wants to bring antifa/blm here and start ripping down and burning down my city? What if the chief of police orders the cops to stand down? Where does that leave me when I dial 911? No one will help me and I'm the goddam taxpayer in this equation. If these bozos started tossing molotov cocktails at my house the local police would come and arrest me for defending myself and gladly laid down in a submissive pose afterwards for the BLM protestors. Trust is a 2 way street my friend, it's not all I give and give and the cops don't have to. Sorry if I demand it to be both ways.
All of my negative views of the police have happened in the last few years because the internet is shining a bright light on it. It's a stench that police can't walk away from now. They allowed themselves to be pawns for politicians, it's a position in which there is no winning move. I can see this playing out right now in Ottawa at the trucker protest. Those cops are between a rock and a hard place and it's become increasingly more impossible to "not" act at the behest of the government. You see the politicians are not doing their jobs and increasingly relying on police to fix the problems that they themselves created. This puts police in the awkward position of pushing around good decent people and they know it. So they push around good people maybe toss a few in jail, maybe even achieve a victory btu at what cost? Lefties hate the cops and now righties are going to hate the cops. It's a lose-lose scenario.
Like I said in another thread 2 cops showed up at my front door one day (a young cop and an old cop) and I was going to be happy to cooperate to let them view the video/audio stream from my security cameras. Bear in mind I have 2 dogs in my house and it *is* my house (therefore my rules) and I don't want my dogs shot for officer safety reasons. Besides these cop2 could hear my dogs barking inside. I would have been happy to help but the young cop was being very aggressive and if these guys wanted help they don't need to be aggressive to people they are asking for help from. I was just about ready to tell him to buy a mirror, look in it and if he sees an a**hole then the mirror works. After they left I spent all of 5 minutes looking at the camera data from the date and time they asked and then said, what the hell am I helping this a**hole for? See, like I said flies, honey, vinegar.
If we keep going the way we're going with an escalation of violence and police needing to be outfitted like a marine landing on Utah beach then I want to escalate it from the citizen side. It's the only safe way for people to be protected from overly aggressive policing. If the only thing that stops a no knock raid is someone manning a tank in the front yard with machine guns and a 75 mm cannon then so be it. That's the price for wanting to do no knock raids. To paraphrase silence of the lambs 'It leaves people alone or else it gets the cannon'. Here's my list of what I feel the problems are:
Incident | What police say afterwards |
Choking out a woman who was not wearing a mask. I was gobsmacked watching a cop grab a young woman by the neck, start choking and pick her off the ground. At that moment that guy is no longer a cop and use of a firearm is justified. | We reviewed our department policy and found that it was within reason. |
A wellness check on an elderly person who ends up being wellness checked into the afterlife | Oh well those sort of things just happen sometimes. |
Police raids at the wrong address and someone is killed | We reviewed our department policy and found that it was within reason. The subject was resisting. |
No knock raids for a person that does not live at the same address as the raid - bad intel | All policies were followed. We're sorry that we just blew up the house but because of exigent circumstances we can't do anything. Sorry you lost your home. Sucks to be you. |
Civil asset forfeiture | We held this guy on the side of the road for 12 hours over a broken tail light, rifled through his belongings, found $1000 tucked into a bible. Subject claimed it was to buy an engagement but Fido was going nuts sniffing the car so it was drug money even though the motorist said they had a dog in heat they took to the vets yesterday. Good luck suing us to get your money back, I got to go make it rain back at the station. |
Cops who put so much pressure on someone's back that their spine snaps and they are crippled for life, end result a life ruined in seconds. | Department police, qualified immunity at the civil trial. Not once have I ever and I mean ever seen a cop say, hey I know I did this to you how can I help. You know the human thing to do. Nope it's always the same pull in the head and legs like a turtle and hope it all passes over. |
Cops beating up little kids - any grown man cop or otherwise who tosses around a little kid belongs on the sex offender registry for life, no appeals, no reversals, you're there, you spend the rest of your life shoveling mule sh*t. That's the price of wearing the badge. | All department policies were followed and it was a reasonable use of force. |
Police pursuits where innocent people are harmed by police wrongdoing | Well they should have stayed home and ordered take out. |
Shutting down a womans beauty salon when she needs the money the most. | We're just following orders. (same thing that Herman Goering said in 1946 at his trial). I got my paycheck, sucks to be you, enjoy starving. |
The point here is it's not enough to just cut a check. Some things can't be fixed and saying "it's just one of those things" ins't going to work anymore. Hope that helps.