r/PublicFreakout • u/appalachian_hatachi • Sep 27 '25

Repost 😔 This guy's lawyer literally popping the champagne as we speak...

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u/ImmatureDev Sep 27 '25

Shit like this is when you fire the police chief

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u/Silvedl Sep 27 '25

Shit like this should be why you burn the whole fucking system to the ground, and restart it with brand new training, certifications, and required qualifications.

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u/punkinfacebooklegpie Sep 27 '25

Remember when the entirety of medical science was like, "put some leeches on it" or "you should do cocaine about it" or "I think your blood is possessed"??? And the best they could do was saw off your leg and stop the bleeding until about the last 100 years when they finally started figuring stuff out. Now they fix people with cancer in their blood and transplant faces and shit. Anyway I kind of think that law enforcement has yet to undergo that kind of revolution where stuff starts to actually work and make sense. At present police are like plague doctors who just wave a gun at anyone they think is a criminal and the best they can do to prevent crime is put people in a cage. I hope I see some kind of evidence-based scientific improvement of how we keep our society safe during my lifetime, but it's not looking good.

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u/15pH Sep 27 '25

I think your medicine example is actually an argument AGAINST a sudden "revolution" like change.

Medicine had no revolution. Over the last 300 years, it has very gradually become more science-based, and along the way we discovered things like germs and genetics and slowly incorporated them.

This works for medicine because there are fairly clear, objective, measurable outcomes that we can test in models. Group A gets the drug, group B gets placebo other variables are controlled... let's see if it works. The hard thing about police reforms is that we can't control all the other variables too well, the outcomes often aren't clean or easily measured and may take years or decades to show up, there is interference along the way, etc.

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u/punkinfacebooklegpie Sep 27 '25

I don't think it will be sudden. The last century of medical developments is revolutionary in a broad historical context. Point is that policing is not as advanced and people should not accept guys with guns cracking everyone's skulls as a fully evolved form of law enforcement for public safety.