For good reasons too! It F**ing sucks dealing with ALL the problems of a city. Ask me how I know!
None of us, first responders, are allowed/empowered to do our damn jobs. We have been effectively neutered by woke activists that think everyone is out to get them. All hell breaks loose when you ask, demand or otherwise force people to take responsibility for themselves and/or own their mistakes.
However...
> All hell breaks loose when you ask, demand or otherwise force people to take responsibility for themselves and/or own their mistakes.
The irony of this statement is that the entire collapse of trust with police in America was refusal for departments or unions to hold individual bad actors responsible. The reactionary response of police unions and the whole "thin blue line/sheepdog" attitude made it clear that also police don't want to take responsibility for mistakes.
https://www.divestspd.com/p/no-discipline-for-detective-arre...
> The OPA could not sustain any allegations against Belgarde because the four-year deadline for discipline established in the police guild contract had passed.
When police unions decide to protect the bad ones, it obviously reduces their credibility and hence society’s trust in them. Might have worked for decades in the past due to lack of information, but people know this stuff now.
I would rather err on the side of letting the guilty go free than convicting someone wrongly. Due process is more important than any individual crime.
Their subsequent newsworthy act of aggression by the same cop this year also makes me err that way.
I very much like the concept of innocent until proven guilty and I want “proven” to be a very high bar.
Also, the guy in the link above also has a 3rd incident in 2015 where he admits to assaulting someone and got a slap on the wrist. Also, it’s 2020, and cops have body cameras and police car cameras, so there presumably is evidence of a DUI. Highly unlikely that another cop pulled him over and cited him for nothing.
But if you're police or some other first response, your job is literally to take responsibility for other people?
Said without any irony whatsoever
So why is it the police are the only ones who are known for taking your property and killing your dog? Maybe the property-takers and dog-killers are naturally drawn to that profession more?
Also, whatever power they do have, they don't seem to abuse, because no one ever complains about the firefighters abusing power.
Do you actually believe that or do you think there are perhaps broader issues at play?
"Wokeness," in the original intended sense - the sense for which people have given their lives in the streets and suffered the arbitrary brutality of American policing for decades, not the sense that incels and racist shitbags use for irony - is the entire point. As soon as your worldview and vocabulary erase the former and continue to normalize the latter you've become part of the problem.
Use of this word could be a microaggression causing them severe mental stress possibly leading to suicide!
And all because you wanted to keyboard social justice warrior! Which, BTW, has not helped, in any way, one person or thing yet and it does cause problems. Also not what this site is for.