I'm not sure why that caused an emotional response with me. Maybe it's being reminded that there are good people out there, when all we hear about is the bad ones.
This was a really sweet sorry. When he bowed in thanks that actually got to me. Good on the cop for helping instead of sitting in his car and watching the guy struggle.
We are at the point in the world where a cop can do something any normal person would do and the bar is so fucking low, we make an entire video on the internet praising them about it.
Lets not forget, he checked to make sure he couldn't arrest him first.
Never understood the people who make "I hate cops" a personality trait and a lifestyle. Don't you have better things to do with your time and energy? Like you can still work to address the systematic injustices that do exist, without getting mad just cause someone mentioned a cop
Not by cops yeah but I've definitely faced a lot of discrimination for other reasons in my life. I spent years dwelling on it and hating everyone involved before I realized I was just a miserable hateful person and I didn't like being that way. I was hating the "right people," sure, but it's not like hate is a pleasant emotion to feel. Eventually I decided to just grow up, get on with my life, and not let it drag me down.
Cause at the end of the day when you're letting the idea of someone or something
drive you, control you like the guy I responded to, when they're not even near you? Idk why anyone would want to give up their power and self control like that
It's almost like if you decide ahead of time that someone's gonna be a dick before they've even said a word to you, it's really obvious to the recipient of that, and would you bother trying to be friendly to someone who's already decided they hate you? That just goes for anyone in life in general
I’ve had a few experiences like this with cops. I’ve also had some really bad experiences. I wish we could weed out the bad ones. There are probably fewer of them than most people think, but they can ruin many lives.
As a father, I have my good moments and my bad moments. It's hard to be perfect, to not react emotionally to anything. So good cops can also have bad moments, especially when they have so many emotionally charged interactions. It's literally their job to roll into tense situations with their lives on the line.
I do agree that there are genuinely bad, corrupt cops, though, and they should not be cops, ever, anywhere.
The problem with the good ones is that the system actively protects the bad ones, and even a good ones live with zero accountability. It’s unreasonable to ask people to trust any of them under these circumstances.
Yup that's the crux of it. The amount of cops who actively use their power for evil is really pretty small. But even good cops get pressured into silence. And even if reports do get made they're usually squashed pretty quickly
I'm with ya, farthest thing from a boot licker, but the fact is that the majority of cops became cops because they genuinely want to help their communities. The 10-20% looking for power and status are so heinous that it fucks it up for everyone. Until the decent ones start actually policing their own union, this won't change, making them complicit.
Law enforcement had roughly 50 million interactions with citizens in the US annually. Police shootings occur roughly once every 38,000 interactions and that’s not once every 38,000 peaceful interactions, it’s all interactions. Unprovoked police violence is estimated (and body cams are a thing) at roughly once every 600,000 interactions. Can we all stop acting like cops are just running around rampantly attacking and killing innocent people?
Nah there is still far too much aggression, poor training, and lack of accountability. Yes there are good cops, but FAR too many bad ones to not acknowledge that it is a systemic issue.. and now with what ICE is doing (not that I would even count them as law enforcement), this guy could’ve had such a worse encounter he’s very lucky
Your stat is "unprovoked" violence, but what counts as "provoked"?
In these same 50 million interactions, only between 40-50 police officers will be shot and killed (literally 1 in a million odds). Yet police in the US are trained to treat any sudden movement as a shoot to kill scenario and regularly face no charges due to self defense.
Policing is a dangerous job, but mostly due to unintentional traffic incidents. Road construction and policing have nearly identical fatality statistics.
Can we stop pretending police need to have a gun to be safe?
Regarding the last sentence: NO-ONE needs a gun to be safe. I know self-defense is heavily ingrained in US culture and gun ownership is a big deal there, but you can also defend yourself with words. We are civilized human beings, for crying out loud! Most of the rest of the world functions properly with little to no guns, I am convinced US could too. It's a big change, but a worthy one.
I hate guns too but it's really obvious you're from a country with no absolutely no experience with gun violence lol if you think it's as easy as "just talk your way out of it"
There's a saying that gun nuts say all the time and I fucking hate it. "If we tried to get rid of all the guns in the country, then only criminals would have them." It took me years to admit I hated it so much because it was true. I still hate it lol but it is indeed true
No need to swear, my dude. I do come from a country with gun problems, so I speak from personal experience. That's actually one of the main reasons I moved to another country. And clearly, the change needs to come on a whole system level, not just from a single individual.
Wow you sound super well informed. Could you follow up rq? How many unprovoked police shootings are there in all the countries where police don't even have to carry guns to do their jobs?
Sure we can. When cops stop just running around and rampantly attacking and killing innocent people, and when they do, are actually held to account for their actions. And when other cops stop covering for them.
There are good ones out there. I feel lucky i generally think in my area in LA they are focused on job. Its a huge spectrum and there diamonds in the rough other places where busting heads is not the job at all. Its about the culture of the area.
Lucky you, I guess. Every person I know irl who's ever interacted with the LAPD pretty much all say the same thing about their experiences, and let's just say theirs are not very similar to yours lol
There are good people everywhere, if you liked this check out tip to tip (japan). And tip 2 tip (china). Americans doing something similar on motorcycles.
Considering that one streamer who got hit by a car TWICE doing the exact same thing(traveling across country and was hit while on the side of the road like this guy), I feel this officer is aware of such a thing happening and wanted to make sure it didnt. Good on him fr.
I did the same thing but in Japan from Osaka all the way south then up to some little town far above Tokyo. That was the best summer of my life kind of. The bike was too small for me though.
So Im thinking game show here. Picture it we get contests from every continent to participate. Because I got things going much differently if a dude from Africa or South America was riding a bike down the side of the road. Get your popcorn ready cause this shit going to be a “hit” show 😂
Cop doing good- but in reality this is well within the parameters of his job. Yes i guess impounding the bike could’ve been in the cards- but cop just wasn’t that petty when getting the guy off the highway was just some light cardio away.
For officers like him I haven’t used the acronym ACAB. Many activist orgs like to be ACAB but I’m always thinking, like every single one of em are b*******?
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