These are the same people who whined about having to wear a mask during Covid.
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I work in 911 dispatch
During COVID we had to ask all of our callers some extra questions if they were going to be in contact with any of our units
Something along the lines of "has anyone there had or been in contact with anyone who has had flu-like symptoms recently?"
And if they did we added a note to the call indicating that.
One night I got a call from one of our off-duty officers calling in an accident he witnessed.
I get all the usual information and start asking our COVID questions
And he gets really indignant about it "why are you asking me this?" "This is stupid." Etc.
Like dude, you're one of our officers. We've been advising you about potential COVID exposures on your own calls, where do you think we were getting that information? This shit is for your benefit, not ours, I can't catch COVID from someone over the phone (the disease vectors sitting the consoles adjacent to me could be another story)
And that's pretty typical of how cops act towards us, the people they rely on to give them information they need to do their jobs, send them backup when needed, etc. blows my mind that so many of my co-workers are absolute bootlickers.
This describes half of most departments. The good cops burn out from the idiocy from all sides and end up fire fighters, EMTs, bartenders and roofers. The dumb ones stay and try not to get fired until they can get that penchant.
"I cAnT bReAtHe!!!"
Yes you can, asshole. It's a slight inconvience, but it's a far cry from not getting oxygen.
But oh, now that it's being used to conceil your identity, you're all fine???
Now serial killers and pedophiles can larp and kidnap children and adults too.
All Thanks to ICE!
DONAKD J TRUMP
"Okay, girlie. No sudden moves or I'm putting one in your gut. If you scream, my cop buddies around the corner will be all over you."
"But I'm being nice. If you stay quiet and come with me, I'll smooth things over with the force. We won't have to break all of your bones before letting you go."
"Now get over here. I'm going to take you somewhere special. You'll love it."
Awwww.....nobody ever loves ME enough to want to kidnap....
I'd bet theres at least 80% overlap with people that somehow couldn't breathe in a disposable medical mask during covid
80 is unnecessarily pessimistic
What fucking sucks is that they are criminalizing wearing KN-95s to protests in state laws because apparently they're so dangerous while simultaneously saying that these guys need masks to protect themselves.
Why the fuck do the cromagnons in office think I'm still wearing a KN-95? So I can cosplay Blade Runner at work? Because I am a duck furry and this is a subtle way of fursuiting? For the high fashion? Because I am taunting non-mask-wearers? NO, IT IS TO PROTECT MYSELF.
aaaaaaAAAAAAA
The masks have nothing to do with COVID. To protect themselves means to hide their identity so people can't dox them and harasses them at home.
I see 2 options here:
Getting kidnapped and imprisoned now (whether that's by 'real' police or fake)
Or.
Shooting the mask wearing weirdos now and maybe potentially possibly getting imprisoned later.
Out of these two choices I know which I'd take.
At this point, my first reaction to seeing anyone in law enforcement at any level is they are a criminal thugs that cannot be trusted, should be undermined at every opportunity, insulted relentlessly, and if necessary, worse. I know there are some good cops, and not everything they do is bad, but goddamn they do they suck in general.
I heard this one recently: Take 100 gallons of dirty sewage water and add 1 gallon of clean water. What do you have? It's not 101 clean gallons of water or even 100 gallons dirty and 1 clean anymore..
You now have 101 gallons of dirty fucking sewage water.
ACAB (and soon to be ACAN ~ All Cops Are Nazis)
Works the other way too.
If I take 100 Gallons of clean water and dump a gallon of sewage into it, would you pour yourself a glass?
One bad apple spoils the bunch. Good point!
I get what you are saying, but that doesn't help the 1 good cop that is actually trying to do their job correctly.
The challenge today is that their legal job may now require them to do things that are constitutionally questionable and ethically repugnant. So even if they’re good people and upstanding citizens, they may be required to, at any point in their day, to choose between doing the right thing and losing their job.
They only have to choose wrong once to no longer be the “good cop”.
Now, because of the way policing works in the US, it may be possible to have an intrinsically good police department. At least until a state or federal agency rolls into town and demands they do something they wouldn’t otherwise do; then they become complicit.
After all… in any other organized gang, there can be good people, but they’re still going to be found guilty of gang activity due to supporting the others.
excuse me, but that is shit logic.
people are indivisible, which makes them different from a gallon of water.
As human beings, our interests, philosophies, politics, etc, yes.
As workers in a job, not so much. The analogy works in that scenario. We all conform, to varying degrees, to the groups that we join. Especially when that group is your full time employ, where you spend most of your time and gain most of your money.
There's a HBO show called The Wire that is amazing, and I would recommend to anyone to watch, but particularly to yourself because "Simon has said that despite its framing as a crime drama, the show is "really about the American city, and about how we live together. It's about how institutions have an effect on individuals. Whether one is a cop, a longshoreman, a drug dealer, a politician, a judge or a lawyer, all are ultimately compromised and must contend with whatever institution to which they are committed."[5]"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire
Trailer: https://youtu.be/1S5khOZ1wBs
Warning: it is slow paced, it's more like reading a book on your screen than watching a traditional TV show, but it's worth it
Doesn't matter all cops are bad. Yes there might be a "good" cool but since they can't or won't do anything about the bad one they're bad. And the shitty thing is if someone tries to eat out a bad cop they are the ones who get take the shit. So yes all cops are bad.
You put a good person in a shit department and they leave or become shit themselves ; either way, they whole group is still shit.
Humans aren't a gallon of water, but you're naive if you think we're not influence-able just the same.
Would you think the same in another country? In Canada? Or in The Netherlands?
Land of the Brave
Puts on mask to hide identity
Next step beyond militarization...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police
https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/police-militarization
Alarming Number = 1 unless it is very cold or covid is hitting hard
Y'know, funny thing about masks like that, they're real absorbent and don't block much other than visibility and direct skin contact. Bet they'd be ripping then off real fast if they smelled something bad enough to puke.
Genuinely looks like the vigilante hacker from Watch_Dogs
You can’t tell if they are real behind a mask, the best option is to shoot first.
But we're FREE from the tyranny of forced education and health care, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!
Rip off their fucking masks
Fascism
Let them wear masks. It's an important piece of safety equipment in some scenarios. Lets mandate that undercover/plain clothes officers cannot enforce the law beyond what a civilian could do. They should not be allowed to arrest you, or point a gun at you, or demand that you ID yourself. Only officers in uniform should be allowed to do those things, and they should be required to identify themselves, the department they work for, and display a badge with number to be considered "in uniform".
Take mask off patriot!