Hopefully people who will behave. People who won’t look the other way when a colleague acts like the guy in the video. People who won’t just walk past someone down and injured on the sidewalk. People with more than a shred of humanity left. If putting their personal financial well being on-line is what it takes to get cops to think that way then put it all on the line.
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You call that shit “mistakes”?
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LAPD was claiming it was for cops killed by covid-19. Which hey, fine, but find some way to wear it that that doesn’t hide your damn badge number. Until then it’s just despicable opportunistic cowardice.
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depends on which shit you are referring to lol
No, that’s just being an asshole. If we punished cops for that, we literally wouldn’t have any left. Hmm. Actually wait, that might be a viable idea after all.
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How is cops covering their Badges Legal ?
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It‘s was pretty well defined what you call a mistake:
A person who acts that way has no place being a member of the police force. Not helping an injured person, and not confronting the shithead who shoved him are two reasons for that.
When you get a mandate form the state to use force, you need a certain cognitive capacity to be fit for the job, empathy, courage, and a few brain cells to figure out the consequences of one’s actions are mandatory. It seems these days in the USA cops are rather selected for being exceptional racists and violent assholes, the kind of people that those who should be cops tend to avoid. That has to change.
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Just FTR, when you record people who are not police or other officials, try, e.g., ObscuraCam (Android).
Oh, and update Signal.
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I’m guessing “the good cops” they keep talking about, cause I sure don’t see THEM around.
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GoPro and related sports cameras are better if you can afford them. You don’t need your hands or aim if they’re shoulder- or head-mounted.
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Police are often if not usually the first on scene for a lot of medical emergencies. If they can’t tell the difference between PCP and insulin shock [1] (or don’t care) they’re part of the problem instead of the solution.
[1] Not hypothetical. NV highway patrol pulled over an erratic driver who did not obey commands so they shot him. All they really needed to do was give him a sip of sugar water and call an ambulance.
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For a cop who’s duty is to “serve and protect” yes a general failure to act in a caring and compassionate manner to a victim of a crime committed in front of you is being an accessory.
It is OK to hold some people to a higher bar. Especially those we entrust with legal use of lethal force. This is not a situation where we should be aiming for the lowest common denominator.
The best of the worst is not an acceptable bar.
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