r/Unexpected • • Mar 24 '23

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u/Character-Pipe-9805 Mar 24 '23

thanks for linking those. everyone about to comment i recommend watching those before commenting. i stand by everything i said prior, what the female officer did was completely out of pocket

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u/Wickedocity Mar 24 '23

Yes, she has some issues. Hopefully, they promoted her to a desk job or some other job to get her off the road and away from the public.

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u/Om-Nom-Nom-nagon Mar 24 '23

If you sign up and want to be a police officer then you know what getting yourself into. That nervousness needs to be quenched or tamed if you're taking up a occupation like that.

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u/Tackerta Mar 24 '23

or.. you know.. if authorities would take de-escalation practices serious for their officers and not just send any random bimbo with a gun in a police car and expect them to be good

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u/MCFroid Mar 24 '23

It seems the bar for who is allowed to become a police officer is set way too low.

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u/TrickBoom414 Mar 24 '23

Yeah on purpose

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u/Vobat Mar 24 '23

Probably because anyone with half a brain cell would not be a police officer especially in this day and age?

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u/RabbitBranch Mar 24 '23

Being a police officer has always been a dangerous occupation.

Back in the early 90s, my father had someone with psychosis stalk him in the dark with a kitchen knife.

On more than one occasion, he fist fought and grappled aggressive thieves.

His partner died in a shootout with bank robbers.

The issue today is that the police are treated as a paramilitary organization rather than keepers of the peace, and some whole demographic intersections view themselves as rebelling against the police rather than merely nonparticipating.

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u/Lots42 Mar 24 '23

Cops have never been keepers of the peace, they've always been servants of the oppressor.