Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Who is attracted to policing jobs? | Brian Klaas" video.
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Blinding flash of the obvious: People are motivated to become police because they like to push people around and do not want to have to pay the natural consequences, and they don't really want to work, like a roofer or delivery guy which is about what most police qualify for as far as intelligence and education (in the USA).
The police problem is much deeper than you address, but the issue you discuss is the bed rock of a rotten system, designed to alienate teens and create an ongoing population of people who detest the hypocrisy of the law as it really functions, and place police in an adversarial relationship to the public.
With the exception of the PA state police, who have always behaved professionally in my experience, every cop I have ever run into (on duty) was basically an authoritarian personality who did not give a shit about truth or facts, and when I was a teenagers several just totally made up traffic charges against me, because my car was too cool and my girlfriend too hot. So this was their petty way of trying to bring me down.
When I was growing up, most of the police in my hometown actually walked beats and several refused to wear firearms (not because they were wimps). Now in the same small town, the police are militarized, if you do not come to a complete stop, for instance, three squad cars will be involved in your ticketing, and all the while, police who are no longer community residents, but outsiders, act in a totally obnoxious manner, such as shinning their spot lights in your rear view mirrors to blind you while you are searching for your documents. If their obnoxious behavior is questioned the will reply that it is for their own protection.
I will note that no policeman has ever been attacked or harmed in this small PA town, ever, and the truth of the matter is that a job as a Amazon delivery driver is twice as dangerous as the average police job and that of a roofer is four time more dangerous, yet they manage to do their jobs without acting like teenage morons.
God help the person who does not submit to every order by these guys, at the very least they will find themselves owning hundreds and hundreds of dollars for fines of violations that are totally contrived, or like some have found out, if the authority of these maniacs that use their petty authority to aggrandize their egos is questioned they may be beaten to a pulp and then told that if they say anything they will be charged will all manner of crimes.
I personally have had police just make-up evidence and lie on the stand against me for things like pot possession in the seventies and driving offenses in the sixties at least four times in my short seventy three years on the planet. On the other hand, I have never needed a cop for anything, and anytime I reported a theft or vandalism, nothing was done about it. So over a lifetime of observation, I would say that you are totally correct: the police we have are with few exceptions, the wrong types for the job.
Nothing will ever be done about this, because the current is in the other direction. Police are far more "equal" than the average person, and can literally murder people and get away with it almost all of the time. This is what the power elite wants. They do not want a bunch of helpful public servants, they want people who will not hesitate to kill on command. And these bastards are interchangeable, a cop in the Kremlin is no more an asshole than a cop in Waco and possibly less of one. A lot of them just want to shoot someone, to give them psychological satisfaction and release. They are so more than equal that killing one of their dogs is treated like killing a human, and they will murder you is you try to defend yourself from a K9 attack. This is not conjecture it is the state of affairs.
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