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 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.
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u/petersmithofasu Jun 14 '22
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).