If they get the rifle they have the same option, why not gives cops those stupid biometric locks the gun control people were trying to force everyone else to use.
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Not just the news media, but cop shows with cowboy cops who bend the rules and rough up suspects to get their man. Of the cop shows I've watched, only Blue Bloods takes a nuanced approach to police conduct, and even that is a borderline case due to Danny Reagan's temper. Cowboy cops can be interesting and compelling characters, but when every cop show adopts that cynical view of policework, it shapes the public perception of how our justice system operates.
Because those damned things don't work, and most cops wear gloves.If they get the rifle they have the same option, why not gives cops those stupid biometric locks the gun control people were trying to force everyone else to use.
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Your idea of the bobby is very outdated. They don't exist in anymore; we tend to operate on targeted police action. The 'bobby' doesn't exist anymore, and has been soft replaced with the PCSO scheme which puts a single man 'bobby' volunteer rather than a full officer. Our 'lack' of police brutality doesn't come from a good system, it comes from the fact that police brutality is very rare anyway; along with our police not actually killing those who brutalize but rather bring them in and then simply don't charge them so they trend towards not getting reported..
It sounds like your police force outright fails at policing.
The reform seems like almost nothing, and doesn't go far enough, so of course cops like it. If cops like the reform, I'm disinclined to think it did anything.
That's going to be a harder nut to crack when the question gets raised at other jobs falling under 'civil servant'.
No. Public sector unions are a cancer. In a private sector union, both the union and management benefit by the company remaining profitable, and the workers having a living wage, but between these extremes, there is fierce competition to try to get as much benefit for one side as possible. This is all well and good.
If you get rid of them the police do have to be done better or it's just another repeat of what the Boston Police did in response to bad treatment in the early 1900s.
No, getting rid of them is just a good idea. Police should be paid well, but if police quit because they might be fired for being brutal, then good, problem solved.
If it was only that easy in theory. I'm sure the institutional rot sets in later and the police union comes back after getting treated like shit again. These things have a cycle. Get rid of one police force and when a new generation takes over the cycle continues.
The police union is a large cause of the institutional rot, and is what makes it impossible to clear out. Basically, say you have a bad cop, like the one who killed George Floyd. Even before Floyd, he had 18 complaints. He should have been kicked out. But why wasn't he? I'd start by blaming the police union.
