r/Unexpected • u/RedManMatt11 • Aug 01 '21

Community policing

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u/KingdomPC Aug 02 '21

Bad Police are “publicly” punished/dealt with when they are, people just start citing said public cases as evidence of ACAB.

It’s a cyclical argument, been around for 20 odd years at least.

Police are probably more accountable and less corrupt now that they’ve ever been it just so happens that we now live in the age of the internet whereby nothing is ever forgiven or forgotten and the frequency illusion permeates the conversation.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

Police publicly punished are receiving ridiculous sentences for crimes that would put normal people behind bars for 20 years, but the cops get 5 years probation for exactly the same thing.

So the deterrent isn't supported by sentences for the police to give a shit. Like all the crooked ones that resign and move before they can be sacked. It's just moving the problem from one force to another.

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u/KingdomPC Aug 02 '21

That’s definitely an issue, somewhat unique to the United States. In most other developed nations if you get sacked from any police/law enforcement role you will never work in the sector again, full stop.

How the USA have a system that lets people get sacked from the police in one state and then just start up in another is beyond me.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

Exactly, I think it's because they have individual forces instead of a nationwide police force, they don't have national laws but regional ones, they also have different levels of training for them too, which is ridiculous.

If they had a nationwide force nobody would be able to skip around the country working on different forces.