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I would argue its far tougher today to be a cop than even two years ago. The crime stats in defund the police cities bear that out. 30 years ago, no one had a camera phone, now everyone does - many are filming any police movement.
At some point in time many in society started viewing things a lot differently.
Training will not improve much. It is hard to attract decent high quality individuals to a job that gets no respect. I fully expect over the next generation there will be a huge shortage in qualified people wanting to become police officers and no amount of training is going to make up for that.AAABatteries said:
Sure. Officers are now expected to follow the laws, behave appropriately, and generally not abuse their positions of power. In the old days it was much easier, they could threaten or beat someone first and make up a story later.djmich said:
I’m not going to disagree with you, sorry. The media only reports the police on blacks though.
That is the way dishonest people characterize it. Advocating for Free speech and against censorship is not vicgimhood politics. Advocating for equal treatment is not victimhood. Leftist love to rebrand words to flip their meaning to hide their evil intentions.
Ok, so then you don't know how current GOP politics is using victimhood. It's stolen, it's a witch hunt, they're against us. A few things that are a part of the message coming from the leader of the GOP.
Not so much no and the reason is, the people being killed by officers were almost all doing wrong / illegal things were they not?
Kelly Thomas in Fullerton was more than discussed. White people being killed by police brutally is being discussed. You know why? Cell phone cameras and video. No more, no less than that. That's what brought the attention to the mainstream. For many, it was proof of racial bias. For others, just a sign police had gotten out of control. But that's where the general dissatisfaction with policing is coming from. Cell phone capture.
1 police mistake out of what, 1,000? 5,000 ? its not "out of control"
Tony Timpa .... how much coverage did he get? Memorial in his name? Riots? Anything ?
it was, wasn't it ?
No. Unless you are just being internet gotcha dude that thinks exceptions can be blanketly applied, when it suits you of course.
The established police culture discourages honest, integrity driven people from joining their ranks. For every explosive story about retaliation towards an honest cop, there are likely dozens more who were ostracized or denied promotion for speaking out against the bad cops around them. Then we wonder how we can have situations with 4 or more cops where all the cops were willing to go along with a lie. This cancer is ingrained in their culture, within even the simple courtesy of not ticketing fellow cops.
https://www.lapd.com/article/264-leos-killed-line-duty-2020
The first link is comparing 4 months in 2020 to 4 months is 2021 and fatal felony attacks increased from 19 to 25, but as seen by the updated link I posted, that number has since returned to mean at 31 through July 19 for both 2020 and 2021.
