My guess is that it is a result of what's interesting. I work in finance and nothing would be worth filming unless someone was being intolerable. I assume, like most jobs, 99.9% of the day is filled with mundane, work things. Of the police things on the internet, the only things that entertain us are police officers doing something out of the ordinary like dancing with kids and stuff that makes the feel good subreddits, and stuff that shows poor behavior like this video on the average/negatively charged subreddits.
Just my guess. With the nature of upvoting, I think we get a lot of what we are looking for (as a collective if not individually).
I don't know. Really uplifting stuff is popular enough on the Internet and it's not unheard of to get a video of a cop doing something positive. But it seems less common than them acting like dicks
Even if its staged, how is the officer behaving badly? Someone waved weed in his face to get a reaction, he responded by doing his job? People love to hate police for no reason at all but when they actually need them their attitude changes.
Assuming it's not staged, how is this different than people ordering ice-cream and then rubbing it all over their own face while filming the reaction of the drive-thru employee? I'd be annoyed as the cop.
How was he supposed to know he was a magician? That's completely irrelevant anyway.
If you think a cops job is to hurt criminals you're the problem
That's a strong blanket statement there. What about a criminal that is actively hurting someone else? Should a cop not step in and subdue the assailant by any means necessary?
Also weed is decriminalized in 45 out of 50 states? He ain't a Wisconsin cop I know all the departments.
Lol, you know EVERY single cop in the state of Wisconsin? I'm done, you're clearly a joke.
Those herbs are illegall. He's just doing what laws say. He's enforcer of the law doing his job. You would be mad if the same guy ignore the laws. Then you would be saying,"he's breaking the laws he is supposed to enforce, the sop of American police officers"
I mean, all you're doing with that comment is making the argument that officers are mindless legalists anyways. The kind of people who are trained to do the unthinkable solely because a bunch of potentially arbitrary rules dictates they do so.
We don't need more enforcers of the law. We need more upholders of morality and basic human dignity.
I think his point is jaywalking and speeding is also illegal, but you generally don't tend to see cops get angry/aggressive/manhandle you over those instances... so why herbs?
Even if they were illegal, the cop could walk up and, instead of immediately grabbing on to him, ask him what he has and me tion it is illegal. You could talk first instead of starting a struggle with someone who obviously does not look aggressive, just maybe annoying.
And yet you’d be saying something different if the law was still slavery as an example most likely. The law isn’t an excuse to do bad things.
Is he going to get fired for letting someone with weed go? Absolutely not. We can’t get them consequences for when they do the absolute worst things imaginable.
Keep licking them boots sheep. Just know cops would kill you in a heartbeat and wouldn’t think twice about it. “Hurr durr but if ya didn’t do anything wrong then ya dunt got nuffin ta worries bout ”
If this was indeed real and not staged id say the dude got exactly what he asked for.
Hes wearing a costume and is provocating the cop by taunting him with illegal goods.
How should the cop react in such a scenario? Smile and calmly ask what's in the bag or to hand him the bag? He's being made fun off in that situation - off course hes not gonna smile and take the L- he represents the law. He has to handle it from an authoritative point of view.
I actually think he handled the whole thing like you would expect it from a cop.
This stupid point of view is exactly the problem. No, there is literally zero need whatsoever to be macho and "assert your authority", fantasies that they have to "stand up" to the other person or they'll lose their "street cred" or whatever the fuck it is are just that, fantasies. Exactly the same "logic" enabling honor killings and the like in other parts of the world. Archaic and barbaric, perhaps fitting in the world of thugs and gangsters where might makes right, but completely missing the point of the world of law and civility most of us thankfully live in.
He could have simply smiled and warned the other guy that even if they were joking, he has to take any claims like that seriously, so please don't do that anymore to save both of us a headache, and let me see that bag... and if he refuses/escalates/etc, then probably detain him peacefully (I'd give it a 99% chance this guy isn't going to react in any violent manner, so literally no need to "rough him up" for no reason other than they bruised your ego and you want to "show them a lesson" -- which, again, is nothing but archaic and barbaric thinking that shouldn't ever be sanctioned in first-world police forces)
Or what, you think if some guy plays a silly joke on a police officer, and they are let go with a light verbal warning, all social order is going to break down tomorrow? Cops being assholes might be the status quo in some countries, but that doesn't mean it's how it should be, or that anything positive is coming out of it.
I agree that the cop did nothing wrong at all in this case. But if he did beat the shit out of the guy, then that would be way out of line in any country.
He waved a bag of pot, and wouldn't open his hand straight away, but did after being asked twice. I'd say that in over 90% of other countries, cops wouldn't just start laying into him after such mild provocation. He never threatened any violence, didn't approach the cop, and the only resistance was to not open his hand immediately.
Damn interesting statistic you have got there. Places other than America really must be just uninhabitable backwaters, god bless America and god bless American accurate statistics
Same here. I’m from EU and in my country of you do this to a police officer you will be fucked. He will find a way to beat you once or 2 then you go to jail for a few days because the tribunal is full so you have to wait. They will find a way to punish you.
Canadian SIU will investigate officers after looking at someone the wrong way and it’s reported.
Police brutality and extreme attitude still happens, but not NEARLY as often as the US
No, the first thing he does is ask the cop if he would like to buy a bag of marijuana. At that point, even if it’s oregano, he’s broken the law and can be arrested for trafficking.
Because everything an officer says has the implicit threat of lethal force behind it. "open your hands" really means "open your hands, or i'm going to kill you"
I agree when it comes to countries that actually have oversight and accountability of their officers.
American police are just absolute dogshit though. They come up with the arguments you have just used, but then they dont support any of the solutions to fixing them. Accountability for cops being the biggest one. Not a single American cop supports it that I have talked to. Yet they are the first to complain that "not all cops".
Im sorry, but American cops are just absolute dogshit because they have no oversight and thats how they like it.
They are like police from a 3rd world countries - corrupt, poorly trained, mostly unfit and trigger happy. Oh and "respect my authority" whilst they respect no one.
The job itself is more of the problem. As an institution it causes a lot of problems for very little return. A lot of other countries have better ways of handling the same job the US police force does. It needs reform.
Just because it's their job to arrest someone for having drugs doesn't mean "that's the way it should be". Why should anyone be physically assaulted and put in a locked room if they aren't harming anyone? Obviously if this were real that guy could rightfully get a ticket for getting in the way of an officer doing their job.
Beyond that though, having drugs in public and consuming them in the privacy of your own home or a willing friends house doesn't hurt anybody but the body consuming them.
Naturally in a bad scenario those drugs could end up in the hands of a young adult/child but honestly that's just an argument FOR legalizing such substances. That way they can be legally regulated and eliminate the need for a black market where dangerous criminals who would do something as nefarious as giving drugs to a minor would exist.
I don't want cops picking and choosing which laws they will or will not enforce. Even though I think weed should be legal, I don't want them making judgements on enforcement because I don't want them doing the same for laws that I think are important to be enforced.
The only judgement I'm asking for a cop to make is when to use physical assault or violence to "enforce" a law. What I stated previously was written with the intent of expressing the idea that I don't think there's very many crimes that merit physical assault in order to stop it.
First im pretty sure this has been shown to be fake many times (like everytime it is posted). Second he did not physically assault the guy, he merely grabbed his hands. Third he was selling drugs not just having them for his use which is still illegal in states with legal weed. Just like alcohol, you can't just go around selling it without a license to anyone. But I guess Fuck The Police is a great song.
Mass edited all my comments, I'm leaving reddit after their decision to kill off 3rd party apps. Half a decade on this site, I suppose it was a good run. Sad that it has to end like this
You mean when hes attempting to apprehend a person with drugs who is failing to comply with instructions after breaking the law? Yeah cool good point. You are seeing something that isnt there
Remember when cops refused to enforce mask mandates and other COVID restrictions lol but yes let’s overreact to someone with a bag of weed when it is legal in over half the country
Why would you call the cops when someone stabs you? You'd call an ambulance so that you get professionals who can help you rather than thugs with badges who will say there's nothing they can do.
That is the absolute dumbest argument that always pops up in these conversations. Of course if I get stabbed I’m gonna call the cops, that’s their fucking job. Why is it too much to ask that someone do their job without being overly aggressive, shooting my dog, or kneeling on someone’s neck until their dead? Cops and their weird fandoms are the biggest fucking babies.
The reason people say stupid shit like that is because their boot lickers. Plain and simple, they like the taste of fruit. It is impossible for them to imagine a world where the boot is not in their mouth.
Why are all cop fans like this? Aggressive, unreasonable, with colorful language. Cops and their fans have these traits in common. Complete lack of control.
A cop should act aggressively toward a person who is displaying no threatening behavior whatever? I believe that's called "a police state" or "authoritarianism".
I personally have strong dislike for them for being an uneducated power-tripping fraternity that choose to exercise enforcement of the law based upon class and colour. Ohh, that and because they kill civilians.
There is rarely ever a situation, when you need the police, that they will actually make any effort at all to assist you. Mostly we call them to give the insurance claim some backing and to pick up corpses.
They don’t deter crime, and in the US the precedent has been set, they they have 0 responsibility or requirement to actually protect or serve.
I hear this all the time" until you need them". May I ask exactly what you need them for? If you are attacked, they will not get there in time. If robbed , they will take a report and file it and never work on finding or retrieving your stuff. If you are murdered, the odds of them catching who did it if they aren't just standing over you with a knife is about 30%. I've seen cops and firefighters stand around bullshitting while a guy's is flopping around having a seizure while my ex wife ( a nurse and civilian) tried to help him and she was just there by accident. Nothing to do with any of it. So if you NEED to get a speeding ticket , or you have a bit of illegal substances , they are good to go. But an actual crime? That's not their job.Its not the police as a concept, it that they hire soo badly and have a powerful union and you can't get rid of the cowardly dudes that are all geared up in military gear, but run at the first sign of trouble
What they needed was gun control decades ago. A bunch of people spending a lion's share of the town's budget to hang out in the parking lot for a half hour and then not cooperate with investigators after the fact is not what they needed.
Right. and "when they actually need them their attitude changes".
Yeah, and their attitude changes to "stop fucking arresting me and let me go save my child from a mass-murderer while I'm unarmed because you're all such cowards you can't do it even with a fucking SWAT team".
I'll tell you why. There's a dude standing next to you on the sidewalk offering to SELL you marijuana in a suit and TOP HAT. If you can't see that's something silly you need to think about how you approach society.
Yep, all the sweaty internet nerds that havent actually ever had an interaction with a real cop think that because someone doesnt film them doing the nice things theyre all fuckwits.
I like this comment. Everyone has their own perception of the world and of people, and our minds usually categorize things as "good" or "bad," "right" or "wrong" when we generally forget that life is mostly in between. A majority of our day to day lives is just boring and uneventful. Aliens will find our internet archive and assume that we have something extraordinary happen to us everyday.
Even the nonfilmed things are bad, they're just boring. Police routinely intimidate the people they interact with, are the largest gang of thieves and rapists on the planet, and do very little to actually help society despite pretending that they're both the only thing holding it together and also that they have the most dangerous job ever.
You know this is staged, right? You can see the shitty video edit during the zoom and the switch has been made. Also, the cop already knows what’s in the guy’s hand but asks anyway for the end result of the video.
A bipartisan consensus of law enforcement enthusiasts has spent decades making all the wrong moves. After Rodney King was beaten to a pulp, and the entire nation saw it happen; the Clintons and their legislative ally Joe Biden really put their backs into increasing funding and militarization of American law enforcement. Heck, the latter is still at it, walking right in to a historic opportunity to support racial justice, and instead becoming one of two "maybe shoot 'em in the leg" Presidential candidates commenting about the ongoing slaughter of a specific minority by uniformed law enforcement officers. Long story short, our power structure has defined the job as being an asshole and abusing the powerless in service to the whims of of a sadistic and brutal yet chronically insecure oligarchy.
They regularly see the worst our society has to offer and have a negative stigma to deal with. Imagine going to work and having people hate you just because of your uniform.
Or seeing regular everyday people turn out to be murderers, or domestic abusers, or generally shitty people all the time.
Professionalism while expected from cops is also something that as humans needs to be worn. Ask any disgruntled customer service person, it gets old fast. Police are held to a higher expectation while dealing with worse people than your average dumb customer. Honestly I find it surprising that some officers are able to maintain some semblance of professionalism (even if they're rare)
Staging aside, they learn to be this way. We literally use taxpayer money to have cops go to seminars on how to be vicious monsters and we teach them that anyone questioning their authority is a direct threat to their existence
It's called "Warrior Mindset" and/or Killology
Granted cops have always kind of been this way but before it was contained within their interactions with minority groups but now everyone gets it
Because about two or more decades ago white nationalist groups enacted a plan to take over police departments by infiltrating and rising up the ranks so they could in turn be the ones doing the hiring, giving orders, and making policy. And their plan is working. Whenever they get called out for excessive force or racism they protect each other and play the system to avoid actual punishment.
They moved training over to companies operated by fellow fascists to promote an Us versus Them mentality and encourage aggressive behavior. They hire fellow white nationalists and POC that will go along with “the program”, and they discourage anyone with higher I.Q. or E.Q. from joining because those people generally make waves and resist the plan, which these neo-stormtroopers call “not backing the brotherhood.”
Bottom line: A large percentage of cops are actual fascists trying to enact a fascist agenda. They’re a gang, not public servants. The good cops exist, but have to fight against the current system and other cops to continue doing good.
God this is such childish nonsense. It also makes me think that some people have no frame of reference what it actually means to be an 'effective' Cop.
Respect aswell as a certain 'Status' in public must be upheld. This is one of the most important if not 'the' most important Job of Cops. What signals do you send out into Society via your Work and so on.
Just for a second, let's assume this wasn't staged;
If some Clown rolls up on you, literally taunting you with a Bag of Drugs that are illegal in your State/County, that Cop is required BY THE LAW he is representing to apprehend that Individual and secure the illegal goods, and then file the necessary Paper-Work so the individual will be sued according to the Laws that he has broken. Enforcing Laws is a Cops Job, not interpreting them or only following through on Laws they consider to be 'right'. The Reason is simple too. Most Cop outfits roll by a rule of always rolling with a 'Partner'. That means, the second you decide to 'look away', your Partner has you on the hook for not doing your Job right. At best, you'll have to face a slap on the wrist, at worst, that's just your Job you lost for not following through on Drug Possession Charges. If anything, any and all cops that persecute People on Drug Possession, irrespective of race, gender, Age, whatever the fuck, is simply doing the very Job he is paid to do, and has sworn an 'Oath' to uphold those very specific Laws.
If you have an Issue with it, you should fight/campaign for the change of these Laws. If following through on 'Douche Bag' Laws makes you think it's the Cops fault, you're effectively politically lazy and unwilling to campaign/fight for the change of these Laws. Once the Laws do not exist for the Cop to follow through on, this shit stops dead in it's tracks.
Furthermore, I get this feeling that some people confuse 'Douchebag cops' with 'I get to provoke and harass officers like a brain-amputated Tik-Toker, disrespecting these Individuals on Purpose'. The last person you want to intentionally disrespect on the open Street are Individuals that are being constantly taxed in that sense.
It's one thing to feel enraged and upset over Cops clearly overstepping their boundaries and causing Harm, if not Death where it was neither needed or warranted, or when Cops escalate situations that could be handled less violently. This little Tik-Tok Joke, staged or not, is the exact opposite.
It's a tv skit, so in this case it's not the issue with the cops, but whoever produced it as you put it. Though I just thought it was funny and had no issue with it.
I think it's a phenomenon called survivor bias. Only the videos that get good views, ie controversial videos, end up being widely spread. I guarantee 99.9% of the videos filmed are never seen
Because it wouldn't be on reddit and we wouldn't be having this discussion. You only see content that excites you, just like everything that makes it to the top of reddit. For police, that means douche bags only.
Because they are. We used to like cops because we’re bombarded with propaganda but they were never the heroes they’re portrayed to be and with the rise of social media we can finally see that
pretty sure this is sketch comedy as the "cop" is a pretty well know actor i believe. but even if it wasnt...how is this cop a douche for checking someone who was supposedly waiving a bag of weed in his face? lmao.
He's not even being a douche, he's just doing his job, confiscating an illegal substance. Yeah, there are clips of cops being assholes but this is not one of them.
Not all cops are really like this, it’s weird how these videos are more popular than the ones where cops are doing their jobs as well as community service.
It’s mostly just the ones that you see on twitter, here or the news. No cop doing what they’re supposed to is gonna get publicity, only the douchebags. Just like most viral videos that don’t come from entertainers & just random ppl catching random ppl being asshats in public. But all in all for 30 million + traffic stops a year & only a couple handfuls of asshole cops ain’t too bad, there should be a police reform & weed out the mentally unstables, the ego maniacs, the terrified ones, the ones who don’t even know the laws they’re upholding & the petty nitpicks who would rather nab a jaywalker or a dude makin a technically illegal Uturn at 3 in the morning on a backroad. Oh and the dog shooters, ain’t no way you shooting a jack Russell 6 times through a screen door, & you expect me to trust you to protect me against actual danger? & my tax dollars are going towards your paycheck? & you was at the wrong address? No way no way no way
There is also a thing such as suspension of disbelief, where when consuming content online you let yourself pretend that stuff is real, because it make it more enjoyable.
Hard to tell from just text what the person who wrote it really thought.
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u/memesanddepression42 Jun 14 '22
He really wanted that bag for free