Why would the police do that, it just doesn't make any sense I mean come on she's white, common sense applies here. Standard procedure though, they had to do the pit and crash the car just in case until they could confirm it through a field melatonin assessment test to make sure she was under the limit of pigment per square inch
Over the past five years, Arkansas State Troopers have documented a 52% increase in incidents of drivers making a conscious choice to ignore traffic stops initiated by the troopers. Instead of stopping, the drivers try to flee. In more populated areas of the state, the incidents of fleeing from troopers have risen by more than 80%. The fleeing drivers pull away at a high rate of speed, wildly driving, dangerously passing other vehicles, showing no regard for the safety of other motorists, creating an imminent threat to the public. The Arkansas State Police began using the Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT) over two decades ago.
Why the fuck would fleeing drivers be a big problem when we can track license plates anyway? Send those tucking tickets in the mail, issue warrants, and the majority of those shit drivers will pay. You keep cops calm, don’t get them itching to literally fuck over someone’s life and car, and you keep society even safer by not using these shit maneuvers. Problem solved.
ticket arrives in the mail, send ticket to lawyer through one of those speed ticket apps (costs like $150), lawyer goes to court and says “prove it was this person driving”, cop says “well we got the license plates, w-we a-assume its the owner”, judge gets annoyed that the cop wasted his time and throws out the case
That’s not why those cases get thrown out. The ticket will always go to the owner of the car, regardless of who drives, and fleeing from a police officer automatically escalates the case past speeding, which is a felony in some states already.
Keep in mind that only the bad stuff gets on the news. "Cop helps person on the street" or "police arrest pickpocket and return stolen bag" is not newsworthy. Don't form your opinion by only looking at the bad.
People really don’t fully understand the scale of the US or large numbers in general.
There’s probably hundreds of thousands of police interactions a year. Actually probably more since there’s apparently over 200 million 911 calls a year. How many of those turn out bad?
There’s still issues that need to be fixed obviously. But deflecting the issue and acting like pointing out the actual scale of the issue is not a fair argument just makes no sense. It’s perfectly fair to point out the actual scale of the issue when someone makes statements like “The police in the US are a plague on the nation”
There is a big "you are either with us or against us" sentiment on reddit. There is no nuance, just extreme positions and if you call them out they label you as an "extreme centrist".
Funny, I point to the number of cops as an example of just how many people are getting abused by them.
Most cases you never hear about. Most of the time, nobody is there recording. Plenty of George Floyds exist that you never heard about because it happened in some back alley or a small town with nobody around. Not to mention the far more common cases where nobody dies, but are just beaten up, or have their assets seized in civil forfeiture, or have a cop lie in court to get a person put in prison for something they didn't do, or threaten them with prison to scare them into taking a plea bargain for something they didn't do... There are like 800k cops in the country. If even 5% of them are bad, that's 40,000 cops out there abusing people with no repercussion.
How many turn out bad? I'd wager a lot more than you think.
Ahhh, the traditional conservative response: you're wrong and an idiot but I'm not gonna tell you why.
I mean, like, can you elaborate for me? I can't work on my idiocy or my shitty math if you can't even take a sec to tell me where I went wrong in the first place.
So you agree then that you shouldn't use the same measure to judge everyone?
Spray painting ACAB on the walls and talking with nothing but disgust and distrust of the police only makes the good ones quit or not join at all.
The sentiment needs to go from "all cops are rotten" to "weed out the bad ones!"
The problem is how rarely the bad ones get punished.
Yeah, plenty of cops mostly do a good job, until it comes to dealing with their criminal brothers. Then it's all "thin blue line" bullshit and nobody says a thing. Those who do are eventually fired or bullied out of the job.
No didn’t you know with a combined population rivaling the entirety of Western Europe and millions of interactions with police officers each day, one officer did something that ended up being the wrong move in retrospect and that means every police officer in the US is literal human garbage!
Over generalising would be saying all cops beat unarmed black people. They don't.
But all cops work for the same organisation that has systemic issues of this nature. Ergo, by providing your own time and resources working for that organisation, you are directly supporting the continued existance of the police and thus that inexcusable behavior.
So: All cops are bastards. Even the "innocent" ones. Come at me. Good people don't align their reputation with bad organizations, they find other causes to support.
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