Police Behaving Badly

[altacoup]

Cops arrest a suspect in less than 50% of reported burglary cases and fail to stop 100% of those.

[stealurface831]

If nerd scientists can subdue dangerous wild animals without killing them in order to draw their blood, put collars on them and all that, surely the cops can figure out how to do it with much less dangerous human beings.

it will take someone other than the cops to figure it out. the vast majority of cops i work with are morons. they are actually unintelligent humans. i know this doesn't apply to all but it does to far too many. their training needs to be overhauled entirely from the outside. police practices aren't working.

i think training and misconduct needs to be handled at the federal level but some autonomy should remain. the reality is, all of this revolves around our mental health and addiction crises. tactical responses and tactical response training is necessary because perpetually mentally ill individuals commit mass murders. granted, the cops typically do little to nothing in these situations but sweep and clear buildings or allow the perp a means to an end through suicide by cop, but their ability to respond is still necessary. on the other hand, these tactical responses are what lead to people experiencing mental health crises or drug-induced episodes being killed. maybe a solution is within how the information given to dispatch is interpreted and relayed to officers, and how they respond accordingly. the mental health and addiction crises needs to be addressed at the federal level and it needs to addressed immediately. it needs to be addressed by scientists and mental health and drug experts, not politicians. i don't know how; it is not my job to figure out but it is somebody's and they aren't doing it.
another issue is this: it takes 13-19 months on average for joe schmo to become a cop. in norway and finland, it requires a three year bachelors degree, the first year of which is focused on the role of police in society in ethics. the second is a year of shadowing a senior officer. the third is a return to an academic setting where they learn psychology, investigations, and whatever else is required. they also complete a thesis. they undergo psychological testing to ensure that they are capable of upholding their duties and are able to be trusted with a firearm. 90% of their general populations trust the police.

america is fucked. this is a paradigmatic crisis and i don't see a viable solution anywhere in the near future. maybe that is the thing: to effect significant, lasting changes, it will certainly take years of progressive improvement. but we are rightfully upset at the current situation and want to see more immediate change. don't get me wrong, immediate changes need to be made and they will most definitely save lives and that will be significant progress, but the lasting and most significant changes will come over time and i think we will have to accept that.

[old goat]

Darting them in the wild, or in a zoo, is a bit different than someone waving a knife around.

I totally agree too many of these mental health calls are treated inhumanly. But if I told you we’d only tazer them, someone would complain about that.


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Don't be so literal. I'm not suggesting to dart people. I'm suggesting that if we can figure it out for wild animals we can figure it out for people. Except we care more about grizzly bears than poor Black people.

[Sharon Needles]

When all else fails and your only other option is to use lethal why not dart them?

[riser4]

Offer em a smoke instead of smokin them. I like that.

[stealurface831]

Offer em a smoke instead of smokin them. I like that.

i like this too.

[leroy jenkins]

Darting people is not a solution to anything unfortunately. Wild animals absolutely do die from overdoses or complications of tranquilizers, and they often take a while to take effect. I don't think theres such a thing as a semi auto dart gun, and penetration issues with clothing are probably also going to be a thing.

I agree our tv and movies glorify killing and worse, trivialize it, but I don't think trying to control that is an answer either, its just a symptom of something bigger.

[MTT]

Cops with tranquilizers is a bad idea. They would use them every chance they got. Likely more than tazers. Think about it

[riser4]

Cops already get medics to tranq people with devastating results. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/us/el...ine/index.html

[riser4]

And I still like concrete head's (unintentional) proposal. Offer them a smoke (a dart if you watch Letterkenney). I mean, he's in the Eugene area and they gave Cahoots. It's not perfect, I get that. But its a step in the right direction. Offer humanity and compassion.

[stealurface831]

Cops already get medics to tranq people with devastating results. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/us/el...ine/index.html

ketamine is just good old fashioned fun.

[riser4]

ketamine is just good old fashioned fun.

Ya, when you can control your own dose and do speedballs, but I digress.

[BC13]

Long read.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates...ster-shooting/

This is a well researched article.

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[Benny Profane]

LOS ANGELES—Insisting their department provided crucial services that help maintain order in the city, law enforcement officials warned Wednesday that defunding the police could lead to a spike in crime from ex-officers with no outlet for their violence. “The truth is that there are violent people in our society, and we need a police department so they have somewhere to go during the day to channel their rage,” said L.A. police chief Michel Moore, telling reporters that without proper resources, his team would be powerless to take these aggressive individuals off the streets and throw them into a police academy. “If these cuts are allowed to continue, we could be looking at a very real future where someone with a history of domestic abuse is able to terrorize their spouse with impunity instead of being occupied testing out new tactical military equipment or pepper-spraying some random teens. The fact that these dangerous attackers and killers are being gainfully employed by the LAPD is the only thing standing between us and complete chaos.” Moore added that even minor budget cuts could lead to repeat violent offenders walking free instead of spending 10 to 15 years behind a sergeant’s desk.

[MTT]

LOS ANGELES—Insisting their department provided crucial services that help maintain order in the city, law enforcement officials warned Wednesday that defunding the police could lead to a spike in crime from ex-officers with no outlet for their violence. “The truth is that there are violent people in our society, and we need a police department so they have somewhere to go during the day to channel their rage,” said L.A. police chief Michel Moore, telling reporters that without proper resources, his team would be powerless to take these aggressive individuals off the streets and throw them into a police academy. “If these cuts are allowed to continue, we could be looking at a very real future where someone with a history of domestic abuse is able to terrorize their spouse with impunity instead of being occupied testing out new tactical military equipment or pepper-spraying some random teens. The fact that these dangerous attackers and killers are being gainfully employed by the LAPD is the only thing standing between us and complete chaos.” Moore added that even minor budget cuts could lead to repeat violent offenders walking free instead of spending 10 to 15 years behind a sergeant’s desk.

This made me snort laugh

[BobMc]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politic...-investigation

The police body cam footage is horrifying, I had tears in my eyes watching the story. I hope she sues the fuck out of those assholes.

[BCMtnHound]

And I still like concrete head's (unintentional) proposal. Offer them a smoke (a dart if you watch Letterkenney). I mean, he's in the Eugene area and they gave Cahoots. It's not perfect, I get that. But its a step in the right direction. Offer humanity and compassion.

In my twig pig days, we were trained to carry a pack of smokes, and offer one when dealing with individuals that were under stress. Worked very well, both for the intended use, and in gifting when entering on indigenous camps. It was amazing how quickly that fix of nicotine would de-escalate a confrontation.

[Benny Profane]

Minneapolis, again.

https://sahanjournal.com/police/minn...-somali-teens/

[sirbumpsalot]

Another innocent black man in America subjected to brutality for his color:

https://mobile.twitter.com/lolpipewr...94078726635521

[old goat]

Cops with tranquilizers is a bad idea. They would use them every chance they got. Likely more than tazers. Think about it

How about giving the cops the tranquilizers?

[MTT]

Another innocent black man in America subjected to brutality for his color:

https://mobile.twitter.com/lolpipewr...94078726635521

I choked down he puke and clicked the Twitter link. - Alberta Canada -

Do you lump Canada and the USA as Canada? I mean we dont really need a bump from another country.

[char_]

Right wing Qanon crowd trying to get into Oregon capital building.

https://katu.com/news/local/protest-...awful-assembly


Twitter: https://twitter.com/LauraJedeed/stat...61381076836352



Remember when cops around the country were teargassing people left and right for this sort of behavior?

[mtnjam]

Right wing Qanon crowd trying to get into Oregon capital building.

https://katu.com/news/local/protest-...awful-assembly


Twitter: https://twitter.com/LauraJedeed/stat...61381076836352



Remember when cops around the country were teargassing people left and right for this sort of behavior?

Surely there's some sort of large pig farm in the area, fill up the manure spreader, drive it up next to these fuckers and fire up the PTO.

[Harry]

Guns aren't the problem, cops aren't the problem, they are manifestations of the problem.

The problem is the piss poor society we've created, particularly around the edges. What do we value ? Not what do we say we value but what we actually reward. Making money and safety, not actually being safe but our perception of being safe.

Our system rewards profit by almost any means, you can do terrible terrible things to your fellow humans as long as you make money because that's the singular self defined purpose of what we do here. Nearly everything is evaluated with economic glasses, we have created an industry around law enforcement, when people can make money through civil forfeiture and incarceration, etc etc you've effectively incentiveized people into acting like dicks because the goal isn't crime reduction it's making money. The police aren't good or bad, they are a business because of this they have tremendous incentive to actively seek profit vehicles like DUI and traffic stops in shitty parts of town. That isn't fighting crime, very little actual proactive crime fighting occurs because that shit is expensive and difficult. Why go after the big drug players when you can just pop poor generally non-white people and get them in the system. Fine them something they can't afford, every time they can't pay the money that they don't have add more money and when they don't pay that throw them in your buddies for profit jail. Have you improved the crime situation ? Are you actively preventing crime ? Of course not but that isn't the goal of our system, that's the lie we tell ourselves to justify endless stupid bullshit.

We also value saftey, certainly reasonable but not actual saftey but rather the perception of saftey. We are safe, America is a great place to live, there has never been a better time to be alive, in every possible metric now is the safest best time to be alive. Yet we act as if the opposite was true. You have X % of the population that is convinced the 60's were way safer although they were considerably more dangerous, you have x% of the population that is convinced a rapist, kidnapper, murder, pedo is right around the corner waiting for a 1/4 second slip up to steal their kid and rape their family even though all of that is just incredibly rare. Never mind that they will drive all over hell talking to their bff suzy on a cell phone while doing 70 in a 45 paying zero attention. This is driven by basic ways in which the human brain works and because big surprise lots of people make lots of money if your a scared little POS, driven to crazy positions on issues by nothing more than delusional fear. We all colectivelyh shit our pants over a bunch of dumb farmers from the ME to the tune of trillions of dollars and 100000's of lives but can't get 10 dollars for shit that actually improves our situation because you know socialism or something else stupid.

That shit is hard right so we aren't going to do it. It's way easier to have racist old white guys pretend the problem is poor black males are for white SJW's to pretend all cops everywhere are racist shitholes hell bent on shooting everyone. They are both and neither.

What we can do that is quick, painless and will help to some degree is one body cameras for urban police officers. This helps everyone including the officers. Two stop selling them our surplus military equipment, the military for all it's faults is a well trained, disciplined force who actually understands what is going on a far higher level than the police. If an army dude in Iraq points his gun at someone it's because he's going to shoot them, here in America you have johnny fucking I got C's through high school and have a tiny dick waving tricked out surplus military gear at everyone and anyone.

From six years ago.

I miss ArmadaBC.


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[east or bust]

quality bump

lot of truths there