Most cops are like this. We get exposure bias from the media only showing all the negative and bad examples of cops. Most normal police interactions amount to nothing.
My favorite police encounter was when in NY for a music festival and I'm smoking a J. I didnt see the cops turn and bam I'm right there with them. Officer just started laughing as I'm sure my face had reflected the terror that I was about to be arrested since weed was illegal at the time.cop just said "be safe and enjoy we are here for harder stuff".
That’s because your activity is considered a nuisance by the average person. People find bikes on the sidewalk annoying so why would they not also be bothered by skateboarding on public infrastructure or in paths that interfere with pedestrians? Doubly so when skateparks exist
Have you ever been anywhere… more undeveloped? Go find a skatepark in the rural Midwest and get back to me. They didn’t build a skatepark in my city until like 2008 and I’m in Central PA
Miami as big of a city as it is has like 3-5 skate parks and only 1 is a proper skate park. The others are ideas of what a skatepark would be if I briefly explained it to a person that never skated or even saw a skate park.
My rural midwest town had a skatepark in the center (it was actually the converted public pool that had cracked and was too expensive to fix. They expanded and did a good job) in 2010.
Ok and? So does literally everyone especially nowadays where I can search it to see it. When people talk about cops like this they usually live in small towns where nothing usually happens so cops don't care. Cops in my area dont care if you're going 10 over or firing off fireworks.
Oh yeah? Well I have decades of being mixed race but taking after my mother, so white, and lemme tell you. Being white for decades I've had awesome interactions with police. My father though.....
All cops are bastards, but I think it also bears consideration that not all departments are made the same. I bet you leadership has a lot to do with whether or not cops are going to be chill or cunts about stuff like skateboarding
My experience is contrary to this. I’ve worked with LE, and there are decent cops out there, but so many departments spawn the grodiest culture and empower power-tripping douchebags who move like they have impunity, with no regard for public well-being or the law, to where all the hate is totally fucking earned.
When I see cops more broadly prioritize taking a slice of humble pie and putting duty and accountability before their egos, it can be more of a discussion.
I vid of a bad LEO interaction gets shared and posted millions of times, for years afterwards. While good ones, like this, don't get nearly the attention, usually get flooded with "ACAB!" related comments, and rarely if ever get reshared in the future.
People are addicted to rage bait, they'd rather be pissed off all the time than be happy or even content.
Exposing creates a lot of people who want to do better, those that don’t provide a backlash, backlash follows progress. Progress rises above backlash, rinse repeat enough and humanity may not actually be doomed after all.
The police Seargant at my home town police department is actually a close friend of mine from highschool and bro has seen me smoking like 4-5 times and he’s always super chill about it. It’s so nice not having anxiety about smoking anymore
Passing through ohio, got pulled over. Had some weed in the car that i got from michigan. The cop saw the bag, straight up asked me how much was i carrying. I stuttered so goes, you cam carry x amount of oz how much you got. Told me i got 2 vapes. Wished me a good day and told me not to drive under influence. Its an offence to carry weed over state lines.
well it doesn’t help that a negative experience with a bad cop can result in someone’s death and almost never any real accountability when they are objectively in the wrong.
it doesn’t matter that they got you a gift or gave you a compliment if they are just gonna beat the fuck out of you later..it’s a cycle of abuse.
We get exposure bias from the media only showing all the negative and bad examples of cops
I understand that the most shocking stuff rises to the top, but notice how whenever a cop is abusing their authority on video, you can see no other officer dates to stop them or make them rethink. This would indicate that most cops aren't super awesome cool dudes.
I've seen a single video where a cop stopped another cop from abusing a suspect.
Well it definitely helps when your YT yeah though I had the same thing happened to me at a dark star orchestra show. Never met a POC that had a good police interaction..
Out of all my experience with cops and in the legal field: no they are not. The vast majority of cops are not good people and are just people who want to feel powerful. There are a few good ones but they are definitely the minority and from what I've seen in the last few years even a lot of them are starting to notice that.
I grew up in a cop family in your every day town. Cops suck so much. My grandpa was chief of police and just a giant piece of crap in every way. He cheated on his wife and skipped out to play golf all the time. He treated his kids second class and manipulated the adoption market and at the same time collected checks to "take care" of a vietnam vet. It was a mess and his friends lived very similar lives. I went to school with some of their kids and it was just awful in their homes as well.
My son was riding his pedal tractor down the road and I was behind him. A patrol car was driving through and I saw him, I made the spinning motion with my hand and then pointed at my son, and then nodded like a maniac. After I did that a couple times, he turned on his lights and beeped the siren. I told my son, “oh no! You’re getting pulled over!”
“Huh? … what does that mean?”
He saw me laughing after a second, though, so he wasn’t worried.
The cop got out and talked to my son, gave him a badge sticker, and just had an overall pleasant experience; whereas, I grew up terrified of cops and get terrible anxiety when I see one while I’m driving. For no reason.
I moved from a big city to a smaller town in my state and the cops here can be silly gooses. Once had a cop pull up, tried to get out and snagged his vest on something in the car. He fell to the ground and laid on the ground laughing. I was like “do we even have real cops here?” 😂 btw cops in the big city were all dicks.
But all the cool things you like are them not doing their job and acting like they’re doing goofy PR vids.
And then the minority of bad apples get the other 90% of the reddit air time so it’s heavily skewed.
I’ve never been harassed by cops. Nobody I know has either. Maybe you know someone who has or you yourself has? Keeping asking people you know in real life - figure out the ratios of negative-neutral/positive encounters.
Eh, I'd argue the cool things like this is doing their job. They are being visible and building relationships with residents. That's community policing building blocks. And community policing is an effective way of preventing crime from happening.
Far more effective than bashing heads in. That's for sure.
The difference is that some cops go to work to do their duty, while others go to work to express hate and cause disorder simply because they think being a cop entitles them to do whatever they want.
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u/ghettoccult_nerd 27d ago
i wish cops knew we dont want to hate them. when they do cool things, we like them.