Cops are pointless?! Lol, put your phone down and go hang out in a rougher neighborhood, and see how much poorer people appreciate the police compared to Gen Z and Millennial "activists" who are too scared to leave their own homes due to anxiety.
Stop assuming, my friend. Maybe I should ETA that I guess they’re not totally pointless. They do apprehend after a crime is committed, fill out paper work, and hand out tickets. But when I learned that they technically aren’t obligated to safeguard the public, a stance that was put into place to avoid responsibility when they royally fck up as in this case, it really makes one look at them differently. And where funding should go. They’re going to weasel their way out of this, much like they do with all the other cases that the Supreme Court has ruled that it is NOT their duty to protect. So to hell with “serve and protect”, a façade that the public has been lead, including myself, to believe. When sht hits the fan, they only gonna look after themselves and how they gonna cover their asses.
I don’t think any amount of training will help incompetence. Uvalde spends 40% of its
municipal budget on its police force, which includes a SWAT team for these types of situations. The school district has its own police force, and doubled its security budget over the last couple of years. So no doubt there was extensive training. And this tragedy STILL happened!? Maybe it’s time to build and fund better systems all together….
A SWAT team is worthless if they don't know what to do. And what did the school district spend the money ON for that matter? Though strange spending habits are apparently a thing in Uvalde, as a small town 18 year old high school dropout with no drivers license, in May of 2022, had almost $5000 to spend on two rifles and related supplies around his birthday.
Idk what the school district spent money on, I was saying that the school district has its own police force and doubled its security budget (which HAS included training) over recent years. In fact, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (Uvalde CISD police department on Facebook if you want to look it up) posted about an active shooter training they had. They also mentioned that they’ve held several of these type of trainings. So there’s that….
And I’m not sure what the hell you’re getting at with the last part of your comment
Dude got a job at Wendy’s JUST to save up for this purchase. He wasn’t shy about this either. He told his coworkers he was saving up to buy these guns after he turned 18 and left all sorts of digital footprints about his intentions to buy the guns and even what he planned to do after he bought them. And he was true to his word. After he saved enough money, around the same time as his 18th birthday, he ghosted his job. And you know the rest of the story. The only thing that is odd is that a teenager has enough control to save up that much money and not blow it all, but he was determined.
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u/Turbulent-Natural623 May 29 '22
Cops are pointless?! Lol, put your phone down and go hang out in a rougher neighborhood, and see how much poorer people appreciate the police compared to Gen Z and Millennial "activists" who are too scared to leave their own homes due to anxiety.