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Originally Posted by BDD
Just saw a bunch of idiots on TV...who obviously could breathe...because they were busy chanting "I Can't Breathe" over and over again on TV in NYC...
My response when standing face-to-face with Mister Policeman or Miss Policewoman is a whole lot of polite "Yes Sir", "No Sir", "Yes Ma'am", "No Ma'am" responses. This has always worked out in my favor...
Dumb fucks who intentionally escalate things with cops tend to get slammed to the ground rather harshly based on what I have witnessed on TV and in the RW...
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1) NYC law is NYC law. The choke hold is not allowed by officers. But it's nice to know we can be bothered to enforce laws about selling cigarettes but not chokeholds.
2) saying "do whatever an officer tells you" just ignores the simple question.
Is there a problem (systemic, broadly) with police forces treatment of citizens. Is that treatment disparate among groups?
3) Cops. Are. Instigating. Shit.
This is what social media has done. Video after video of cops reacting way out of line for the situations they are handling.
4) the system to correct violent behavior of officers is broken. The public office works with cops, so you don't get the court system to do a thing. The long standing policy is IA or self policing and that doesn't work. Of millions and millions of filed reports of police abuse action is taken *less than 1% of the time*
Officers know little will happen to them. And the courts won't find against them. Human psychology 101. They have authority and no consequences. Are we seriously going to deny the basic truth?
5) FBI data shows the generations coming up are the least violent since the 1940/1950s. Assault rate on officers is near all time recorded lows. Social media/camera evidence everywhere is reducing rates.
Low assault rates/modern equipment/tech/methods mean the "danger" factor of being a cop has never been lower. It's almost like cops are bored so they are trying to get their macho on by stirring shit up.