Well, there is a way to reform it, but it involves doing things the way they’re done in the UK and I believe Europe. Officers do have tasers. They do not carry handguns on them. If they need an armed response, they either need to return to their vehicle for their long gone or a response vehicle that is armed will come, but generally, they carry a night stick, possibly some kind of disabling spray and a taser of some type. So it can be done, but it involves completely fundamentally, rethinking the way we think of the police.
And the systems are set up to move indirect opposition to any kind of radical reform of the police that would actually save lives. Disappointing. And even the Supreme Court supported that the police department does not have an obligation to protect people or even to stop crime. Their whole job is to protect property and that's a huge reason why I pretty much went from "defund the police" to "abolish them".
The same thing we have about Nazis and joining the tables with them, or the fact that inaction In the face of injustice is consent. They're one of the few groups as a whole that rival the Church on levels and frequency of abuse, trafficking, and corruption. Both groups also attract a certain type of person. Power seekers, bullies, abusers, etc. And the fact that the police force can go against the Geneva convention is one of the most messed up things .... Racism, drug use and abuse stigma, mental health crisis stigma, all of that they have before they get to police academy and it's reinforced throughout their entire career as LEOs.
I shudder at the thought of LEOs with total blanket immunity and extra funding to buy more military weapons to infringe upon people's human rights. Under the conservative promise and the mandate for leadership, It won't be just Jaahnavi Kandula that I had a point system applied to the value of her life
Agreed… when my son still lived at home I had about 35 instances of having to call for police assistance over the course of about five years. Generally, they were all excellent and extremely professional, but as he got older, I got more and more scared of what could happen. Even when the worst did happen the day I was violently attacked. They took a half an hour to get to my house. They did very little to support and my mom who was 72 at the time was the one doing most of it. He is aging physically at a much faster rate than he is chronologically and I so fear him ending up out in public by himself on accident getting in a situation he can’t verbally advocate for and someone thinking that he’s some drunken 40 something or whatever. We need a network of other types of professionals who respond to the scenarios. Police are given an expected to respond to way too wide of a berth of situations. My husband was considering becoming one shortly after we got out of the military. Thankfully, the real estate office I worked at had a part-time agent who was an undercover police officer, and when he heard that that’s what my husband was pursuing, he gave me his business card and said please tell him to call me. We need to sit down for coffee. He pretty much detailed everything that you talk about above and said he was working his ass off to try to get out of the force he did break away, actually had a pretty lengthy career and politics before jumping off to some corporate platform. He was our county executive for a while.
Well, there is a way to reform it, but it involves doing things the way they’re done in the UK and I believe Europe. Officers do have tasers. They do not carry handguns on them. If they need an armed response, they either need to return to their vehicle for their long gone or a response vehicle that is armed will come, but generally, they carry a night stick, possibly some kind of disabling spray and a taser of some type. So it can be done, but it involves completely fundamentally, rethinking the way we think of the police.
And the systems are set up to move indirect opposition to any kind of radical reform of the police that would actually save lives. Disappointing. And even the Supreme Court supported that the police department does not have an obligation to protect people or even to stop crime. Their whole job is to protect property and that's a huge reason why I pretty much went from "defund the police" to "abolish them".
The same thing we have about Nazis and joining the tables with them, or the fact that inaction In the face of injustice is consent. They're one of the few groups as a whole that rival the Church on levels and frequency of abuse, trafficking, and corruption. Both groups also attract a certain type of person. Power seekers, bullies, abusers, etc. And the fact that the police force can go against the Geneva convention is one of the most messed up things .... Racism, drug use and abuse stigma, mental health crisis stigma, all of that they have before they get to police academy and it's reinforced throughout their entire career as LEOs.
I shudder at the thought of LEOs with total blanket immunity and extra funding to buy more military weapons to infringe upon people's human rights. Under the conservative promise and the mandate for leadership, It won't be just Jaahnavi Kandula that I had a point system applied to the value of her life
Agreed… when my son still lived at home I had about 35 instances of having to call for police assistance over the course of about five years. Generally, they were all excellent and extremely professional, but as he got older, I got more and more scared of what could happen. Even when the worst did happen the day I was violently attacked. They took a half an hour to get to my house. They did very little to support and my mom who was 72 at the time was the one doing most of it. He is aging physically at a much faster rate than he is chronologically and I so fear him ending up out in public by himself on accident getting in a situation he can’t verbally advocate for and someone thinking that he’s some drunken 40 something or whatever. We need a network of other types of professionals who respond to the scenarios. Police are given an expected to respond to way too wide of a berth of situations. My husband was considering becoming one shortly after we got out of the military. Thankfully, the real estate office I worked at had a part-time agent who was an undercover police officer, and when he heard that that’s what my husband was pursuing, he gave me his business card and said please tell him to call me. We need to sit down for coffee. He pretty much detailed everything that you talk about above and said he was working his ass off to try to get out of the force he did break away, actually had a pretty lengthy career and politics before jumping off to some corporate platform. He was our county executive for a while.