Yep, everything is the fault of 'the system' and people carry no responsibility of their own. Gimme a break.
This re-occuring police violence is horrible beyond words but it's also a ridiculous exaggeration to call the entire police force some kind of mob organization. These people have to do their job under often extremely stressful situations where the threat of violence against themselves is also very real. There will always be rotten apples in any organization but the vast majority of good deeds by the police will go unnoticed and unreported. People base their opinion on media reports so the media also plays a role in people's negative perception of the police. If police killing innocent people is all you hear then you believe this is all the police ever does. From personal experience I thought American police is very friendly and amicable. But some people change in high stress situations and I think that is the problem.
The police is not to blame for the structural neglect of poor communities but they always have to deal with the domestic violence, street gangs and drug wars that result from it. I also can't imagine people are waiting in line to become a police officer so you have to do with what you have. We hear of the times the police shoots an innocent man but we never hear about the times the police is under fire. It's a job where people literally put their life on the line so it's easy for some pasty ivory tower academic or SJW Karen on Facebook to profess society must ''defund the police'' but really society should be grateful there are people who want to do this work in the first place.
What I also experienced first hand is why so many people simply can't cooperate with an authority figure. This mentality of feeling like you're always owed an explanation and this complete disrespect for the police and acting like the public space is one's own personal domain. Like the other night I got pulled over by some cops for alcohol control and they asked for the usual like driver's license and registration so I thought fine these people are also just doing their job so I cooperated and went on my way with the cops wishing me a nice evening. Some other guy who got pulled over as well for the exact same thing completely lost his shit shouting at the police and arguing with very aggressive body language. Just..why? If these were American cops who can be pretty sure people are carrying it's not hard to imagine how quickly a simple car being pulled over can go out of hand. Now the other guy was of North African descent and I can see how the media would have thrown it on his ethnicity if things escalated even if I had personally witnessed they treated the person the exact same as me.
But yeah, I think the biggest problem is when cops have to deal with things they aren't equipped for like social ills of neglected communities and a population armed to the teeth and a pressure cooker society aggrevated by social media. In it's current tractory it's inevatible the U.S. will go the way of South Africa with gated communities guarded by private security forces and segregated ethnicities where racial divides have burned all bridges.
It is the fault of the system. They call it a " poverty tax" for a reason. people being too poor to pay tickets and too poor to have better jobs that can let them off work to pay tickets is all a part of " the system" it is like my brother being thrown in jail because his car couldn't pass inspection. His car had a computer error and they couldn't figure out why. The check engine light kept coming on, then would go off then a few days later would come back on. He had them replace several things, but it kept happening. He even replaced the computer in the car and it STILL kept happening. There was nothing wrong with any of it and he wasted all that money he didn't have to spend in the process. The car was not dangerous. The car was not a hazard. The car itself was driving fine. they think that it may have been a wire somewhere in the car causing the problem, but they would have to replace all the wiring in the entire car to find out, which would cost more than the car was worth. So he was given a no inspection citation on the way to work. On the same day, he was given ANOTHER citation on the way home in the neighboring county. My brother wound up having to SIT IN JAIL for that BS because he spent all his money trying to fix the car, then when he tried to go earn more, he was stopped by the cops for it. His car was impounded while in jail and he could not afford to get it out so he lost his transportation to and from work over it as well and has been unemployed since.
Then he was fired for missing work when he was in jail. Go ahead and explain to me what he was supposed to do here? This is how it works for people with little to no options in reality. It is always one thing after another, never letting up until the system grinds them into nothing.
I didn't call the police some "mob organization", but Police Sgt. Woods, above pretty much did and he would know better now wouldn't he? Did you listen to what he had to say about it?
Here is where it was posted earlier:
I thought they already did that was why the Courthouse there was on fire... I mean riots at the level of the George Floyd incident.
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And yea, according to the cops speaking up it was intentionally designed this way. Listen to what he is saying the biggest problem actually is here, and I don't think it is what you think it is.
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