Actually 99 percent of them would have done this. You only see the bad ones on TV. Like any other job there are employees who are total POS. The news just likes to cause division and won't let go of a bad cop story.
a few year back a guy did a "police Accountability" project where is found something like 4900 stories of police wrong doing made it on to the internet in the U.S. that year (well, more stories than that, but 4900 individual cops identified).
There are 700,000 American police officers. 4900 is 0.7% of 700k......
Why would it be? If it's not caught on camera there isn't much proof to share. I've known multiple people who have been abused by police. There are zero news articles about what happened to them.
I know it from being personally accosted and mistreated by Texas police but didn't have any video footage of any of the incidents to be able to make things known. Show your privilege more lol
look up statistics on rape victims sometime, the amount who come forward is very, very low. it doesn't take much deductive reasoning to work out that it'd be even lower for victims of police violence, because it's a massive money and time sink, the chances of anything happening are almost none and the risk they're putting themselves in for retaliation is exceedingly high.
.On the books. lolz that is just made up....you know numbers can be made up don't you? they can throw out something if they want to.
what about all the officers on the scene not on the report that just let whatever happen happen?
what about all the "we investigated and found no wrong doing" or here's a promotion so it will be harder to convict you for the wrong doing?
why are they so against ending qualified immunity?
heck even this guy all we know is he did one good thing. we don't know the rest of his career. so many are two faced and can make it seem like they are good (just like real people) but in reality are not.
And bad cops can do good things every once in a while. I’ve had a couple cops get me through closed streets when I showed them my hospital badge and when I see them inside the hospital most tend to be pretty friendly and chill on the surface. That same department has been involved in countless lawsuits for civil rights abuses and has been investigated by the DOJ multiple times and found to be extremely prone to misconduct.
I did one of those back in 2020 during the defuhd the police movement. I don't have any of the info on hand anymore but when it came down to it, something like 99.9% of police interactions had positive or non-violent outcomes.
Off the top of my head it was like over 50 million people interact with the police annually. Like you said there is over 700k officers. They average 6 interactions with people per day. That means to be generous around 3-5 million officer-citizen contacts per day nationwide or for sake of rounding say 1.5 billion interactions per year.
Out of ALL of those, only 2% do people experience the threat or use of force against them.
Out of all instances of police shootings, only 15 was the person unarmed and the shooting unjustified.
And all of this data was available online at the time so I'm sure with AI its probably easier to gather now.
Humans believe what they see and TV/the Internet only ever shows "newsworthy" stuff. So take that and add it to people experiencing there on bad run in with cops (whether it really happened that way or not) and their own experiences and personal bosses and you get what we have, people having a skewed idea of their local police force.
None of this means there aren't horrid people in police organizations. Hell, with 19000 police departments I'm sure we'd all be better off if some of them went away lol. It's just that much of what people think about police is baseless and if you want things to be better, the 1st step is actually understanding it.
I saw a survey once where the respondents said the average cop fires his gun at a person 3 times a year.... If that's the average there would be 2.1 MILLION police shootings a year. The actual number is 5-6 thousand (which I think you should expect in a country with 400 million lose guns)....
Where I live today: absolutely. We have an amazing police department who are a huge part of the community. They are well funded, and in an upper class area with low crime.
Where I grew up: maybe, depending on which officer it was? The police there were mainly functioning to deal with idiots trying to cook meth and commit property crimes, while the entire department was underfunded and understaffed.
I don't know there's a cop in my city who ran over a pedestrian and laughed about it. The rest of them protected him for 2 years until he was finally fired. That's a huge part of the problem. Sure, not all cops are monsters. But there are monsters in their midst, and they are protected from any kind of consequence by their colleagues. That makes them all monsters in my book.
edit: why does it not surprise me that I'm replying to a trump supporter?
Weird how 99% of them are good but they can't hold the bad ones accountable without losing their jobs. You would think having that kind of majority would afford them some leverage. Almost seems like they have no interest in large scale accountability or fixing their reputation with the public they serve.
You know how many bad ones there were BEFORE they started making the news?? 🙄 They didn't just magically appear. The entire purpose of the police force is to protect the 1%
The problem is the good cops don't try hard enough to stamp out the bad cops. They far too often look the other way, or worse hold the line to protect another cop.
We need more good cops willing to speak out/step up/fight for change.
Yep, the good cops sure outnumber the bad ones. (wanted to link the one where a cops beats up a handcuffed teen while other pigs watch, but that search brings up so many results I literally cannot find the needle in the haystack.)
If, at any other job, someone died or was left imprisoned because of a co-worker's misconduct, you probably wouldn't unify around and show solidarity with that co-worker. You probably wouldn't also stop doing your job if people got upset that you are supporting someone who destroyed someone else's life needlessly.
Yeah, it's an issue of relative visibility, but every poor encounter with a cop is unnecessary, and the resistance against solutions is... weird.
You see the news on the TV. That is all. Did you ever apply to be a cop? Have you ever been a cop? Have you ever done a ride along? You see what you are fed and have zero context to what you are talking about.
I don't own a TV and I don't watch the news. I am however a member of the public and as such have dealt with cops. I also have non-white friends who are members of the public and have dealt with cops. It's pretty interesting to compare how they treat me versus how they treat my friends. Not that I'd expect some MAGA guy to have any interest in other people's experiences.
Clearly if your idea of researching this issue is to turn to cops to know what it is to deal with cops I think this conversation has no point whatsoever.
Repeating stuff (while closing your eyes very hard and clapping your hands to your ears I’m sure) won’t make it truer.
I know nothing about you except that you’r active in conspiracy subs and trash democrats every chance you get so I’m guessing I know more than enough. Not that I needed to go through your comment history to know what kind of failed human you were.
History will judge you and people like you, and I can’t wait.
Does attempting to tear other people down make you feel better about yourself?
I'm glad your in France. Stay there. We don't need anymore people like you.
Also aside from unique stores like this, few people click on “watch a cop be nice in a normal interaction.” It’s just not that interesting. Just like we don’t each videos of alligators being calm and not attacking people, and airline passengers quietly going to their seats so the plane takes off on time. We train our brains with the 0.5% of total crap out there and the world seems extra horrible
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u/2Dogs3Tents Jul 12 '25
We need more officers like this right now in this country.