That someone is posting on a thread, asking for advice on how not to get shot by the police during a routine traffic stop, is evidence that the behaviour of the police in the USA is not what should be expected of a police officer.
I hate referring to those people in uniform as cops or police because that is not how they work.
To me a police officer is someone who has signed up to take risks to themselves so as to preserve the lives of others. Their duty is to detect and arrest suspect criminals so that they should be taken to court and justice served. They are there to calm situations down and preserve the peace. They are there to make good people feel safe and bad people worry they will be caught and convicted. In the UK those duties are enshrined in the law and form the basis of how they are trained.
It has been made abundantly clear by many that in the USA, the police have no duty to protect the public (I believe that may even be backed by law). They are not expected to take risks. It is fine for them to shoot to kill and not arrest. The will inflame situations, make them much worse and think there is no place for patient talking down of violent incidents. They make good people feel scared. They make bad people react with extreme violence back at them because they do not realise the tough guy act causes others to act tough back. The makes many US police no different from vigilante thugs dishing out summary justice.
Why do so many on this forum keep on defending the behaviour of their police and how they are policed?
Congrats, this is one of the most laughably ignorant, ill-informed, and flat-out asiinine posts about U.S. cops I've seen in a long time, and given it was done in 2017, especially impressive.
I have to wonder where you get your "information" (i.e. laughable delusions) from. I suspect like most, it's largely the media, because good cops and cops just doing their job (which you pretend they don't do) don't get the headlines; the slimy ones do, even though they represent an (I can't emphasize these next words strongly enough) EXTREMELY TINY MINORITY of all U.S. cops.
Sure, there are bad cops. News flash: there are bad people in EVERY profession. Welcome to the human race. That doesn't mean they're the norm, to say the least. Do you know how many cops there are in the U.S.? No? I do. About 800,000.
Eight hundred thousand. And of ALL those, and the literally millions of interactions they have with people every single day, how many of those result in all the nasty terrible tales of woe you seem to think are the norm? Obviously, damn few, esp when you consider that the media knows what powerful "click bait" that stuff is and so scours the countryside with great effort to take any such people or incidents and blast it in your face, where they know millions of idiots will devour it like piranhas on a Thanksgiving turkey, completely ignoring what ridiculously rare events they are.
Where are the stories of cops simply doing their job, or better yet, putting up with a LOT of flaming aholes out there in society yet not giving those clowns the smack upside the head (or more) they so richly deserve? What about the cops who are attacked, even killed, by slime for no reason other than they're cops, never mind the ones who put their lives on the line trying to stop thugs from being thugs? Nah, doesn't fit in with the trendy cop-hate, so you don't hear much about that...at best it's given a small secondary story line well down the page of any media site. Nobody really cares if a cop is killed now, no matter how great a cop and human being they were...because Minnesota etc.
I could go on, but it's likely wasted on the likes of you. You and those like you would rather just dream up whatever delusions give you a reason to climb in your ivory tower and spew absurd dribblings like this, or the "defund the police" lunacy. You're not interested in the tiniest about facts or reality or perspective. You're far too addicted to self-righteous hissies.
And yknow what, part of me almost wishes that defunding the police would happen. Let's ditch the police, watch the chaos that ensues, and listen to all the "defund the police" people wailing about all the crimes committed on them that go unchecked and unpunished and why isn't anyone doing anything?
The only problem with that is that those of us with functioning brains would be affected just as much, and unlike the first group, we don't deserve it.
