Maybe all these bad cops are just overworked?
Cop in America doing a bad job, again
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Tbh those overtime amounts are pretty standard in law enforcement. I make about 15-20k in OT a year (no more due to COVID/budget cuts). Some might be voluntary details, some might be built-in OT depending on the position, court time, and some might be forced OT if there's staff shortage on the next shift. Or often times late arrests/reports. Look at transparentcalifornia.com and look up any police department, or any government job, and you'll find the base salaries and total overtime compensation. Pay attention to the Fire Dept, they pretty much double their salaries on OT alone. Personally I don't have a problem with it. I take more of an issue with top level commanders, assistant chiefs, and chiefs who bounce around from 1 department to the next, in essence double, and triple-dipping their pensions.
And from the looks of it, underpaid
https://www.inquirer.com/news/richa...oXAj1jiNWx5iBMB2svewsbAbs6gYe3iNuMTkw4gQCF_tw
Philly SWAT officer seen pepper spraying kneeling protesters on I-676 turns himself in and will be charged
Famously effective defence, "just following orders".
Philly SWAT officer seen pepper spraying kneeling protesters on I-676 turns himself in and will be charged
Famously effective defence, "just following orders".
He genuinely thought that was going to work too. You can see the exact moment he realizes he really fecked up. Great conflict de-escalation, threaten to execute someone. The masses sure love that.
I'm scratching my head.
Those are some dumb motherphuckers.
I actually feel bad for the Cops on this one. Their automated plate reading system flagged the vehicle as stolen. It does seem extreme cuffing the entire family but their system needs to be able to distinguish between different states license plates.
It flagged a stolen motorcycle. You don't need training to know they have handled this badly.
The feck? They cuffed children and put them face down on the ground. Feck the cops.
Absolute scum of the earth.
That little girl with the pink hat looks particularly dangerous.
I hope they get a shitload of cash from suing them.
I hope they get a shitload of cash from suing them.
They're trained like that, it's their standard Operating procedure. In the land where anyone can sue anyone you can't blame them if COPs becomes robots and lose any sort of common sense and rational thinking. It's as if they're gonna be in trouble God forbid they forgot to cuff the 12 years old. I remember reading about Airport securities detaining a 5 years old toddler who bears the same name as wanted terrorist.
The whole culture is rotten I'd say.
Nothing like taking your family out for the day and committing grand theft auto.
LAPD respond to a call regarding a suicidal person by showing up, shooting his dog and then shooting eachother.
'friendly fire' is such a nice term
If there's one thing American cops like more than shooting minorities it's shooting people's pets. Cowards, every single one.
No wonder the justice system is so corrupt when they have to rely on these fecking idiots to do the leg work.
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops...Y6n1-MfWZaXpXnuRkB9uF65EZSTAW-yMrNI2U0mmjf61g
What the feck is wrong with these people
What the feck is wrong with these people
Both sets of people. Idiot walks outside with gun drawn, bigger idiots can’t see he is complying with orders & murder him.
One is a random civilian, the other a trained professional, so I'm not sure about "both".
You walk out your place with a weapon drawn, there’s always going to be scenarios like these. That’s massively unfortunate, but that’s the reality. It’s idiotic to put yourself in such a situation.
Why did they move away from the peephole when they knocked on the door? Anyway what a massive tragedy. I can agree that it's massively stupid to open the door with a gun behind your back, but he also probably wanted to make sure who was knocking at the middle of the night.
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops...her-after-traffic-stop-bQ55wWprLUG0uKanB5xegw
Georgia Cops Open Fire on Kids Running Home to get Father after Traffic Stop
Georgia Cops Open Fire on Kids Running Home to get Father after Traffic Stop
That may be true, but police must expect some people behaving like idiots without killing them. I can excuse a random joe being an idiot and making mistakes. I can't excuse the police behaving like idiots and killing a fellow crash bandiccot fan.
I don’t disagree, but the idiocy exists on both sides of the equation.
Fair enough.
Imagine following the law and getting shot dead anyway just because, and then you're called an idiot? feck me.
Come on. It’s just not that simple. There are consequences from decisions that are made, there really not many good ones that can materialize when rushing out of one’s place with a gun drawn, cops or no cops outside. The cat was murdered, no doubt, but he didn’t have to be.
Whittaker did nothing wrong, he never saw the cops through the peephole and couldn't be sure it was the police out there. It's not like he opened the door with a gun in his hand during a long police standoff. He was within his rights to be holding his gun while opening the door that late at night. The fact that those two cops covered for each other in the report was sickening.
Didn't really rush out though did he?
Yeah, that was straight up murder. He was cowering down in the most submissive way possible and the cop, probably nervous and scared, fired on him. It does make me wonder, how often does owning a gun cost lives in a home vs save them? Surely if he did not have a gun, he would still be alive. I will never have a gun just because I think it serves to escalate situations just like this. That being said, the guy was within his rights, reacted properly and was still murdered.
A lot to unpack there.
A lot to unpack there.
I think American gun laws are insane, and yeah, opening the door with a gun in your hand is dumb. But! It's also legal, and shouldn't cost you your life. He wasn't even given the chance to put it down, and he literally couldn't have moved to do so any faster.
If you're going to have lax gun laws, you best make sure having a gun doesn't mean cops will use it as an excuse to kill you.
Perhaps Americans can enlighten me, how often does break ins happening? All this time "break ins" are created as if it's like some sort of boogeymen that justify having more guns than your hand can handle. Are they really is such a big issue over there? It's a fecked up society where a knock on your door should be answered accompanied with a gun.
I get what you're saying but that just goes to show how utterly absurd American gun laws and police culture is.
Having a law which if followed makes you liable to get murdered (by the cops, no less) with people still being able to "reasonably" defend the murderers is completely ridiculous.
It’s common, but it’s a stupid argument in support of having guns because most burglaries occur during the daytime when no one is home. Home invasions on the other hand where people are present in the home are very very rare. It’s usually committed on homes where defenseless elderly people live, or to rob known drug homes. It’s all media fear-mongering and gun-nuts adamant that they need to protect their home/family, when really there’s a higher chance of an accident or other mishap
I actually think the argument tends to go more the other way. Breakins are very uncommon in most areas compared to the stats I pull up of similar sized places in other parts of the world. Crime like car theft, breakins etc are very rare compared to similar sized towns in a lot of Europe for instance. Based on the comparisons in crime stats I've seen. The notion is then that many Americans believe that it's safer because people have guns but ironically those same safe areas probably have much lower rates of gun ownership than those that are not.
It's as if the one LEO has waited his entire career to point the weapon (AR-15 or M-4, not sure, possibly neither) and was gonna milk it for however long as possible.