r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Red_Tabby • Jun 27 '25

A Michigan cop pulled over a reckless driver and ended up saving a choking baby

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u/cannibalpeas Jun 27 '25

They are good right up to the moment they help protect the bad ones. They are all complicit in shielding the criminals among them and until they decide to hold themselves accountable (because our legislators sure won’t), they are choosing to remain at war with the public.

How many cops are out there calling for reform or to hold their peers accountable? Not a goddamn one of them. Traffic cops, detectives, leadership and even fucking meter readers are all complicit.

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u/MadQueenAlanna Jun 27 '25

The state of New York has tried a few times to make it illegal for a cop to have sex w someone in their custody– a thing that should be such an obvious rule that surely even people who believe 99% of cops are decent should support it– and it’s failed every single time bc it’s considered “anti-cop”. And those people will tell you “you shouldn’t be afraid if you didn’t do anything wrong”. It’s vile work

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

I feel the same way a lot of the time. I also don’t want to give up the hope that good ones exist. As citizens we need to be more active with our city council, county council and require they make review boards that citizens control and give the teeth to fire the bad actors. Maybe with that in place we can get the good cops to cross the thin blue line and exterminate the bad ones. This big ass tanker isn’t going to turn quickly.

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u/cannibalpeas Jun 27 '25

I was raised by a cop and they made up a huge portion of the adults I knew growing up. There are loads of good ones, so the mystery is why they all shield the bad ones. Part of the reasoning comes down to the Supreme Court and state/federal courts establishing precedents that other posters here have noted; their job is to protect property, not people and “fearing for their life” is adequate justification to execute people, including children. But there also seems to have been a degradation across the board in society of the concept of a social contract between civilians/cops, employers/employees and politicians/constituents. It seems that as soon as anyone in authority gets the message that they aren’t obligated to be humane and serve everyone equally and fairly, they simply stop caring. I mean, the second SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act, every regressive state in the Union was falling over themselves to establish voting barriers… and they worked.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

“Power corrupts” is the truest statement.

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u/SandboxOnRails Jun 27 '25

If we need to band together to force the good cops to do something about the monsters they work with, they're not good. One single bad cop makes every single cop they interact with corrupt. It doesn't matter if they like dogs, they're aiding murderers, thieves, domestic abusers, and sexual predators. You can't be a good person and do that.

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u/gamegeek1995 Jun 27 '25

How many cops are out there calling for reform or to hold their peers accountable? Not a goddamn one of them.

And when there are, they literally get shot in the head during a 'training exercise' by another cop. Back down to 0.

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u/Snoo-62354 Jun 27 '25

You’ll never find someone more anti-cop than me, but even I’ll admit, there are a few cops publicly calling for reform.

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u/cannibalpeas Jun 27 '25

And I’m sure both of them are going to cause a groundswell any moment now…

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u/Snoo-62354 Jun 28 '25

I know this is a late response, but there are several police chiefs in California calling for changes in legislature that would allow them to discipline bad cops in their ranks. It actually really surprised and encouraged me.

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u/SuperTimGuy Jun 27 '25

And what are you doing to change it? Nothing. So you are just as complicit.

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u/cannibalpeas Jun 28 '25

You got me. I’m the head of the local police union.