You're gonna be waiting a long time as he seemed to have been
banned
Shame; couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Any volunteers to invariably advocate the opposite of common sense? How else are we going to get more +20 page threads of "the opposite of what you say because of reasons?"
Yeah, it's always bothersome to me, from my line of work, when I see cops come in. Because a LOT of ex-military go into law enforcement. But they come in with service disabilities that often include PTSD and other psychological problems. And they will often talk about how they don't report problems they are having, because if they do, they will lose their job. But they want the higher disability rating because their condition is worse. And all I can think is "Ok yeah, you'll lose your job but, if you can't safely DO your job, given the stakes in that job, maybe you SHOULDN'T be doing it?" This isn't the kind of thing that you just "suck it up and walk it off you pussy" your way through. People can and do DIE because of faulty policing all the time. You aren't entitled to be a cop, nobody fucking drafted you. If you can't do the job without being an actual threat to the community you are supposed to serve, then you shouldn't be doing that fucking job.
Yeah, it's the ones that feel the badge gives them impunity, that their position makes them an infallible authority and therefore correct in every decision they make, or (let's be honest) that just want to flex their muscles against the necks of people they believe to be inferior to themselves that make this discussion so exhausting. Tack on mental health issues as you've suggested, and you're sitting on a powder keg that demands the standards of employment be higher, yet we don't have that discussion, do we?
"He should have obeyed."
"She should have just done as she was told."
"If [they] would have just acted differently, the authorities would not have felt the need to use lethal force."
And after a woman misplaces her phone, assaults a random, black teenager with accusations of theft, walks away, and spends the next several days defending herself all but anonymously on social media, a black man is killed for jaywalking after one of the cops responsible admits he wasn't doing anything substantive enough to merit their exercising of authority.
'Murica...
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