When did cops start being gaslit and told they face danger every second they’re on duty? Cause that’s a huge lie that gets pushed around a lot. Their job is a lot of boring nothingness, peppered with excitement here and there, just like my job. I’m maintenance and building worker, and my profession is much higher on the danger list than cops, so does that mean I’m also a hero who faces danger every minute?
I feel like it was after 9/11 that cops started acting like an invading army who feel we’re all trying to kill them, you can’t walk up to a cop and ask a question anymore, they always look so put off that you dared approach them. They always think they’re in Kabul, and we’re all colonized locals who will murder them, so they must act first against us.
I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but I’ve got this sense that the shift coincided with increased public awareness that police were generally being pretty shitty to marginalized and black/brown communities. I think we probably all knew that on some level, but through a mix of generally more racist attitudes that existed back in the 60s/70s/80s and lack of exposure to the problems those communities faced, it was pretty easy for lots of the country to happily go on believing cops were the good guys.
Through the 90s/00s/10s it got increasingly harder to ignore or justify shitty policing tactics, even to those who weren’t directly impacted by them. And when the calls for change and reform started to come from more diverse audiences, police unions and propaganda groups decided to circle the wagons and ramp up the us-vs-them attitudes towards the public in general, rather than tackling the problems that were being called out.
There’s a whole other level of WHY they chose that path, but that’s my 2 cents on the surface level question at least.
You have police unions but no normal ones over there?
Thanks to the likes of Dave Grossman and ‘warrior’ type training it is what they’re actively taught. They take personalities that want to engage in modern policing and teach them how to kill, all adapted from soldier training. It’s so popular they’re building
a disneyland of violencecop city in AtlantaIdk but as a veteran I make sure every cop I see going on about their job knows they are not one of us.
No part of getting paid 100k to drive in circles and shoot at dogs is related to being in the military.
That and if a soldier beat up a civilian American Citizen, there’s a good chance they’d never see the light of day again.
They have always acted this way. The reason you see it more now on video is because we all have high res cameras in our pockets.
Cops have acted this way as long as their have been cops in this country.
It wasn’t after 9/11 that this started. But after 9/11 smartphones started to become prolific enough to capture their behavior
People have this idea that modern times shed all of the disgusting shit from the past and exist in this brught new future. We don’t, the sky is black and the stars have only barely begun to shine through. We do not exist in the bright future yet, we are still usurping the dark past.
Although I agree with you entirely, I just want to be clear that this is a satirical video from The Onion.
And I don’t know. Their assumption that anyone they interact with wants to kill them, and that physical violence is the solution to all forms of noncompliance, seems to be at the root of a lot of needless deaths and injuries, though.
Not to mention you never know when you will come across a civilian in need of a beating. It’s anxiety inducing and frankly inconvenient because you may not always have time to give it is proper due.
Posted August 24, 2017.
I enjoy how not only is the cop afraid of being caught, but that the worst punishment he can imagine is being assigned desk duty. Not being fired. Not going to jail. Desk duty! Great video lol
