• @[email protected]
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    3010 months ago

    Why is it that so many cops have the personality where you actually expect that type.of behavior? Fuck America. This is their American dream not ours.

      • Sentrovasi
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        2010 months ago

        Sometimes I read some people try to defend cops by saying “you’re too scared to be a cop”, and I think to myself, actually, yeah. That’s the point: being a cop means needing to face desperate people and de-escalate; it means being able to be calm in the face of danger and make sound snap decisions. People’s lives and safety are in your hands. It’s a fucking terrifying and difficult thing to do, especially in a country as polarised today as America.

        The problem is that means that a lot of people who still want to be cops are people who don’t appreciate the difficulty of what it is they have to do.

        And for the few that do understand and are sensitive enough to prejudice to make this sacrifice: when they end up in a department of these other people who make wrong decisions every day and put money where it’s not needed, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d want to leave, be harassed out or worse, end up going through the motions and joining in as well.

        • Doug HollandOP
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          1810 months ago

          That’s the crux of it all, right there.

          Cops ought to be what you describe in your first paragraph, but in reality the job is simply thug-with-a-badge.

          • Maeve
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            410 months ago

            Cops must take six weeks off BLET (basic law enforcement training). That’s mostly it, some cops get a two year criminal justice tech degree, and humanities weren’t part of the required curriculum when I was a student. If they are now, it apparently doesn’t sink in.

        • Maeve
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          510 months ago

          To further illustrate your point, consider Christopher Dorner.

          • @Batmancer
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            Wow. I remembered his face when duckduckgo led me to a wikipedia article. Was fired for reporting use of excessive force, then went on to kill officers and their family members until they admitted their wrong doing of firing him. From wikipedia, “A manifesto posted by Dorner on social media declared “unconventional and asymmetric warfare” upon the LAPD, their families and their associates unless the department admitted publicly he was fired in retaliation for reporting excessive force.” I have conflicting feelings about this. It makes me happy he took a stand against those organized criminals but I’m sad the criminal’s, possibly innocent, family members got dragged into the bloodshed.

            • Maeve
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              I’d be much concerned if you didn’t have conflicting feelings about it. I have conflicting feelings, but the predominate one is overwhelming sadness. The whole mess was easily preventable, with proper action by the lapd, and persecuting him wasn’t it, as we see.

      • @Shikadi
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        710 months ago

        Maybe if it wasn’t the way that it is

  • @Red_October
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    1610 months ago

    So that’s just a Guilty plea with extra steps and we’re moving on to sentencing now right?

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      He’s angling for leniency. Judge instead of a jury trial, talking up “i only hit her arms, not her face,” saying he “lost control so it was unintentional,” that he “feared disease becaue he takes care of his family.”

      Basically a shotgun of not being responsible, but then he was kind while not being responsible, but also he was really being responsible for other people.

      Just pure appeals to emotion from a man who unlocked a door to go back into a cell to beat the shit out of a fully incapacitated prisoner.

  • Flying Squid
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    710 months ago

    Not even a little surprised. He wouldn’t have been a cop if he didn’t have anger issues.

  • Obinice
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    310 months ago

    Surprising that they admitted their built 4, but I suppose it should save some time and money as now they can wrap the case up quickly and throw this attacker in prison.