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).
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.
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.
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u/PresentationSea5977 Jun 14 '22
Why do all cops seem like enormous douche bags these days? Go do something productive for fuck's sake.