You people look at a post and automatically apply it to every station around the country. Sorry to break it to you bud, but most cops train long and hard to protect the people they love, and have spouses and kids of their own. After defunding them all to the state of being mall cops, who is gonna come and save you from being shot the local rapist, mugger, or crackhead?
So here’s the thing: why do the police automatically close ranks and protect these abuses? Police unions, and even just regular PDs in small towns and big cities alike, will almost always close ranks around any sort of investigation into officers that abuse their power, or are accused of bad behavior. Why? If they really wanna “protect their loved ones”, shouldn’t they instead NOT tolerate abuses? Should they not, instead, strive to bring abuses to light, so the remaining officers can all hold each other accountable to that higher standard?
Additionally, I really take umbrage with the use of the word “defunded”, because what we usually mean is a little more complex - however, “the police in Millville, OH don’t need an armored personnel carrier and a crate of rifles and level IV plates all the time to protect their town of less than a thousand” doesn’t quite fit on a protest sign, and neither does “we shouldn’t be sending the police in to do things like wellness and mental health checks which they’re ill-equipped and ill-trained for”, or even “maybe not every situation should be immediately met with deadly force at the slightest inconvenience.” Moreover, if we do agree with your “protect and serve” mindset, shouldn’t the police WELCOME the help of a trained wing of people to deal specifically with things like suicidal tendencies, wellness checks on the elderly or the mentally unwell, and other situations that might escalate with the presence of an armed person shouting instructions at them?
I think you’ve confused abolishing the police with calling the police.
The police are thieves themselves
You people look at a post and automatically apply it to every station around the country. Sorry to break it to you bud, but most cops train long and hard to protect the people they love, and have spouses and kids of their own. After defunding them all to the state of being mall cops, who is gonna come and save you from being shot the local rapist, mugger, or crackhead?
So here’s the thing: why do the police automatically close ranks and protect these abuses? Police unions, and even just regular PDs in small towns and big cities alike, will almost always close ranks around any sort of investigation into officers that abuse their power, or are accused of bad behavior. Why? If they really wanna “protect their loved ones”, shouldn’t they instead NOT tolerate abuses? Should they not, instead, strive to bring abuses to light, so the remaining officers can all hold each other accountable to that higher standard?
Additionally, I really take umbrage with the use of the word “defunded”, because what we usually mean is a little more complex - however, “the police in Millville, OH don’t need an armored personnel carrier and a crate of rifles and level IV plates all the time to protect their town of less than a thousand” doesn’t quite fit on a protest sign, and neither does “we shouldn’t be sending the police in to do things like wellness and mental health checks which they’re ill-equipped and ill-trained for”, or even “maybe not every situation should be immediately met with deadly force at the slightest inconvenience.” Moreover, if we do agree with your “protect and serve” mindset, shouldn’t the police WELCOME the help of a trained wing of people to deal specifically with things like suicidal tendencies, wellness checks on the elderly or the mentally unwell, and other situations that might escalate with the presence of an armed person shouting instructions at them?
Six months training is long and hard?
The police are not obligated to protect and serve.
And quite often don’t.
Again, with all of the assumptions that the whole system is corrupt
The courts have repeatedly found, across multiple jurisdictions, that the police have no obligation to protect and serve the public.
The police don’t stop those things from happening anyways.