This has to stop. Enough already. Being a police officer should not give anyone permission to kill anyone. There are horrible cops, who do this, then there are other cops who allow them to do this and get away with it. No cop can call themselves a good cop if they are not actively stopping bad cops in the act, or doing everything they can to change the system, which is completely broken. Police unions, who do everything they can to brush the crimes of cops under the rug, need to be dismantled. We need to demilitarize the entire police force in this country. I am sick of seeing these Rambo-ed up cops. Their only goal is to induce terror and control over a community. Even the Lego cop has changed. The old one was a smiling person in the typical blue uniform. Now, it's a grimace faced, armored up asshole. Police academies need to screen applicants better. Complete background checks, including all social media, longer training, especially with de escalation tactics. Any cop who attended the insurrection on 1/6, that wasn't there to help stop it, needs to be dismissed immediately and charged. We do need police forces, but, we don't need what we have now. I am heartbroken over what this country has become.
We also need to address the quality of the people allowed into the police academy and on to being officers. Someone I know was recently turned away from the police academy because the psychological test indicated there was not enough authoritarian traits.
There's a new video of a police officer brutally arresting an elderly woman with dementia and breaking her arm. That's straight up sadistic behavior. It's the kind of scene that puts holes in the argument that officers are in the line of fire and fear for their life. It's time for a total overhaul of the police system.
There seems to be an established and consistent pattern to not hold Cops accountable for their gross violations and misconducts which only has set very bad examples among their peers across the country.
I am glad our state just did away with qualified immunity! "Over policing"... there's a good way of naming it. And I agree with Alice, we should change who is accepted into the police academy.
This has to stop. Enough already. Being a police officer should not give anyone permission to kill anyone. There are horrible cops, who do this, then there are other cops who allow them to do this and get away with it. No cop can call themselves a good cop if they are not actively stopping bad cops in the act, or doing everything they can to change the system, which is completely broken. Police unions, who do everything they can to brush the crimes of cops under the rug, need to be dismantled. We need to demilitarize the entire police force in this country. I am sick of seeing these Rambo-ed up cops. Their only goal is to induce terror and control over a community. Even the Lego cop has changed. The old one was a smiling person in the typical blue uniform. Now, it's a grimace faced, armored up asshole. Police academies need to screen applicants better. Complete background checks, including all social media, longer training, especially with de escalation tactics. Any cop who attended the insurrection on 1/6, that wasn't there to help stop it, needs to be dismissed immediately and charged. We do need police forces, but, we don't need what we have now. I am heartbroken over what this country has become.
We also need to address the quality of the people allowed into the police academy and on to being officers. Someone I know was recently turned away from the police academy because the psychological test indicated there was not enough authoritarian traits.
There's a new video of a police officer brutally arresting an elderly woman with dementia and breaking her arm. That's straight up sadistic behavior. It's the kind of scene that puts holes in the argument that officers are in the line of fire and fear for their life. It's time for a total overhaul of the police system.
There seems to be an established and consistent pattern to not hold Cops accountable for their gross violations and misconducts which only has set very bad examples among their peers across the country.
I am glad our state just did away with qualified immunity! "Over policing"... there's a good way of naming it. And I agree with Alice, we should change who is accepted into the police academy.