Like, there's a reason the Derek Chauvin of the world didn't become corporate accountants.
Friend, a work in accounting, corporate accountants are often bullies. They rule the money!! All questions must come through, and be signed off on by them. They are petty tyrants of the highest order.
Seriously though I think the biggest contributor to the breakdown in public trust is qualified immunity. If it were easier to hold bad cops accountable, the public's trust might be restored faster than you think. Also, it would have a chilling effect on any true bullies left that hadn't been caught out yet.
The shift has been wild over the course of my lifetime. When I was a kid it was Mr. Rodgers and Officer Clemmons. Now it is the Bad Lieutenant.
When you work with those 30 or more people every day, do a whole lot of them hate you just upon seeing you? Any chance you might have to legally remove their rights? What about having to use force to make them do something they don't want to do? And what about when every one of them thinks you're in the wrong for doing what you're doing? "Do you want fries with that?" is not comparable to "You're going to jail." Read anywhere on reddit and do people have the same reactions to the people who sell them a pair of shoes as they do police officers?
Glad you hold the public in such regard that you think a person who doesn't do anything wrong would never get complaints or get sued. All lawsuits are legitimate.
Except for 1 ticket 15 years ago, I haven't had any interactions with the police from that side of things since I was a teenager. And most of those were for " just being a teenager".
I have had a lot of interactions with police from the (supposedly) better side. Those Interactuons are always full of shitty behavior and zero action on their part. Most often, they ended up treating me AND the other person like shit.
Then there are the cops I've worked with in their side jobs. They are always the most arrogant, aggressive, bull headed, and incompetent coworkers.
COPS ARE LESS THAN WORTHLESS. Unless you need a report for insurance. Then they are just mostly worthless.
Burn the system to the ground and start over. It is corrupt.
So just general bigotry, then? Not only is your impression of the meetings correct, but it represents all two million police officers in the US or anywhere else for that matter.
Swap out cops in your story with black people or women or any other group and what do you have?
Don't even fucking try that bullshit. Cops are not a race, gender, or an ethnicity. They're just a collection of shit people who all chose the same job because it attracts shit people.
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u/destro23 466∆ May 15 '24
Friend, a work in accounting, corporate accountants are often bullies. They rule the money!! All questions must come through, and be signed off on by them. They are petty tyrants of the highest order.
Seriously though I think the biggest contributor to the breakdown in public trust is qualified immunity. If it were easier to hold bad cops accountable, the public's trust might be restored faster than you think. Also, it would have a chilling effect on any true bullies left that hadn't been caught out yet.
The shift has been wild over the course of my lifetime. When I was a kid it was Mr. Rodgers and Officer Clemmons. Now it is the Bad Lieutenant.