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Why are the us cops such raging douche nozzles? After every interaction I've had with a cop in the us, I left hoping they get shot soon. I've never seen cops in other countries be like this.
Edit: as requested, my point of comparison is police in Australia and the UK.
In my county they opened fire on someone filming the police recently. Turns out having video evidence is the ONLY way a policeman can be wrong.
Where?
[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/dad-im-shot-man-...
This sounds very much like one side of the story. "I was essentially arrested for filming a police checkpoint in Manchester, New Hampshire" I don't want to defend the police, but that sounds like there is a lot of information missing here. Why was he filming the police? What did other people do at/to/near the checkpoint? Was he alone or part of a group or even a mob?
This sounds very much like one side of the story. "I was essentially arrested for filming a police checkpoint in Manchester, New Hampshire" I don't want to defend the police, but that sounds like there is a lot of information missing here. Why was he filming the police? What did other people do at/to/near the checkpoint? Was he alone or part of a group or even a mob?
Why would this be relevant?
> What did other people do at/to/near the checkpoint?
Same as above: Why would this be relevant?
> Was he alone or part of a group or even a mob?
Could be relevant.
Why are the us cops such raging douche nozzles? After every interaction I've had with a cop in the us, I left hoping they get shot soon. I've never seen cops in other countries be like this.
Some US citizens are routinely armed, so the potential for lethal harm is much greater in any scenario.
US domestic policy has encouraged the police to be at war (vs crime, drugs etc).
US domestic policy has encouraged a criminalization of large amounts of petty stuff (truancy / three strikes policies) which encourages this.
This all encourages a us vs them attitude in police forces, where the police are fighting a 'war' against citizens.
US police are highly trained to stop a criminal with force, and rarely focus on de-escalation.
US police are rarely funded and motivated to make a visible presence beyond arrest etc, and don't perform much of a community role afaict.
Almost any civilian action (e.g. filming police / protests) encourages the 'us vs them' attitude and encourages police to close ranks.
So has anybody written an app for streaming video directly into cloud storage?
I believe there was an app called Quic that shut down, but I heard that Facebook has some sort of live feature for streaming video.
So has anybody written an app for streaming video directly into cloud storage?
https://www.aclu.org/feature/aclu-apps-record-police-conduct
Why are the us cops such raging douche nozzles? After every interaction I've had with a cop in the us, I left hoping they get shot soon. I've never seen cops in other countries be like this.
We need a culture transplant, and I don't see how that happens. Cops should not be soldiers or gang members, but they act like a combination of both.
Actually, more like gang members with a 900-lb-gorrila for a sugar daddy - they get military weapons, but in many cases are incompetent to use them properly, let alone having disciplined teamwork.
I keep trying to think of tactics to encourage peeling the good cops away from the bad ones, and can't think of a way that works. And how we have the Feds throwing out consent decrees and basically telling the worst of them "have fun". It is a depressing situation.
As a CEO he just associated his company with poor decision making.
If this guy has a lawyer, he should consider listening to them.
But IANAL, so who knows.
This sounds very much like one side of the story. "I was essentially arrested for filming a police checkpoint in Manchester, New Hampshire" I don't want to defend the police, but that sounds like there is a lot of information missing here. Why was he filming the police? What did other people do at/to/near the checkpoint? Was he alone or part of a group or even a mob?
Why not? Is it now politically incorrect to give the benefit of the doubt to people who literally put their lives on the line to serve the community and keep people safe?