Quote (InsaneBobb @ Jun 3 2022 10:18am)
Back in the 90's we were pretty big on attempting to hold police accountable. There were so many cases of police brutality, primarily against white women, secondarily against white men, third against black men, but impacting every other demographic as well, including children, that it seemed like a major fucking problem.
Strides were made. Things like shoulder cams, which were implemented on a trial basis in many jurisdictions from 2005-2013, yielded great data, showing police behaved more appropriately when they had something such as that to hold them accountable, without preventing them from doing their jobs.
Then, in 2014, after Michael Brown beat the everloving shit out of a cop and tried to steal his gun to murder him, and was shot dead for his trouble, it became all about "Black Lives Matter". On the very same day that an officer killed Michael Brown in self defense, a white teenager in Utah was gunned down by police. He was unarmed and had offered no resistance or cause to the officer. The incident was considered "following policy" and no investigation ensued. Nobody cared. Nobody cares today.
This is the largest part of the problem with points such as yours, they ignore the efforts of the last decade to turn a viable attempt at police accountability into a massive race-based grift.
The problem that Ghot is pointing out isn't the problem that we had in the 90's. It's new. We are currently at a point that thanks to the race-grifters of BLM, the police are terrified to pull the trigger if the target is anything other than white. Why would cops refuse to stop an active shooter who's killing children? He was brown. Even being the same race as the criminal who is shot is no protection for the officer. It's gone so far as people demanding that officers be currently taking fire before they ever draw their firearms. Hell, there were even calls for prosecution when an officer saved the life of a black girl by shooting the black girl who was attempting to murder her by stabbing her with a butcher knife. To put yourself in the position of the officers in Uvalde who refused, why would you ever intervene in any school shooting where the shooter is non-white, possibly being shot and either injured or killed yourself, when there's a very high likelihood that you will end up prosecuted for magically being racist?
What about the current climate encourages any dedicated police officer to remain with the force? What about the current climate encourages good people to join today? If you're one of the people truly dedicated to insuring peace and safety to your community, why would you join the police, when you've now been told that to enforce the law is racist, if the suspect is non-white? And if the suspect IS white, and there are unlikely to be any repercussions, why SHOULDN'T the police officer act with extreme and unlawful brutality? Good cops? Why would there be any?
Police are the problem to his example, I wasn't ignoring everything else you mentioned, nor was any of that needed for the original post. Obviously there are bad people as well, but to ignore the fact that there aren't bad cops and only people are the issue, that's where the original post was wrong.
It's a problem if you think all cops should be brutal and extreme. If all cops acted under their oath appropriately 100% of the time we wouldn't be having this discussion.
This post was edited by D_urRRR on Jun 3 2022 08:22am