Note: Billy has a much better chance of survival due to his skin color.
My 3yo got a coloring book from a visiting cop at preschool the other day.
First off, he’s 3. Starting that young just shows how much they’ve considered it. A full half of the kids there are black, we’re in a city famous for historical racism.
His moms have established words they don’t want him using yet, like “shoot.” OK, they’re his parents I can understand and respect that. We play with nerf darts and stomp rockets, and never “launch” them at people.
So the coloring book teaches him vocabulary like “suspect,” “pepper spray,” and “stun device.” They’re answers to puzzles.
I made an offhand joke that next year’s coloring book will explain how a “suspect” was “incorrectly adjudicated” by an officer’s “bullet device.”
His moms wisely threw the book away explaining they don’t want to teach about racist, rapist pigs yet. I was so happy. He’ll never know his biological grandmother is a cop-worshipper because she’ll never meet him.
Going past single-panel rhetoric, does anyone know any great media to showcase this dichotomy of feeling between what police should be, and what they are?
Something like: Highlighting the life and pride of a police officer that loves the force and sees himself as a hero protecting people - then slowly getting sickened by all the protestors insisting police are horrible - before eventually being exposed to the terrible actions of other police before breaking down and doubting their own life’s mission.
Not exactly the same, but Serpico shows what happens to good cops who reguse to turn a blind eye to corruption, and it’s based on a true story.
The Departed is a great movie in general and it’s about two men, one is an undercover cop in the Irish Mafia and the other is a Mafia member working for the cops. They are both trying to figure out who the rat is in their organizations without being found out themselves. May not be exactly what you want, but there’s a TON of police corruption in the movie
Edit: I know I’ve seen End of Watch and I thought it was a good movie, but I don’t remember much of it. Apparently that’s about two LAPD cops who get tangled up in some cartel corruption of their department, so maybe that one too?
The Departed
True OGs know of Infernal Affairs, its where they got the concept from.
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I remember when this would have been funny.
This is the mindset I’ve adapted about the US in the last 10 years. This is the mindset I’ll pass on about the US until I see it change. Police reaching for the gun the second they get a response they don’t like is not good. This is not a society I’d wish to be a part of. Good luck Americans. And godspeed.
That’s a wildly optimistic take. ICE will kill you, whether you’re obeying them or not.
Hey, they may also shout conflicting orders so they have justification for murdering you, because you didn’t stand with your hands on your head while getting on the ground
That’s how clean shoots happen
Simon didn’t say put your hands up…BANG
You gotta obey while being maced and beaten by 5 cops. And you have less than 30 seconds to do so.
And they might just ask “does he have a gun?” “Wait - does he have a gun?!” “DOES HE HAVE A GUN?!” until they shoot you 10 times just to be able to look and say “nope.”
They gave you a whole 30 seconds to comply. You’re basically asking to get shot.
ICE isn’t police though
Yes, they are and so is the Border Patrol.
No, they aren’t
If you look at the videos they don’t even have proper gear. They are just a bunch of “volunteers” who enjoy causing harm to others. Even if they were properly trained federal agents, they still wouldn’t be police since police are done at a local level not a federal level.
They are literally federal police, a thing that this country has had for more than a century. The state defines what police are.
Billy has a much better chance of survival due to his skin color.
That depends. Does Billy have an accent?
Billy has a much better chance of survival due to his skin color.
Idk man, given recent events this might not be true anymore.
Everyone in America can name the last two people shot by ICE/BP. How many can name any of the ten people who were before them without looking it up?
The BP shoots Mexican kids across the border for fun, and they have been doing that constantly since they were formed. They don’t even bother making up his reasons for doing it because American courts don’t consider it to be a crime.
Bovino made ONE mistake: acting like those rules also applied to white people. And that’s why he got fired.
Daniel Shaver was a decade ago.
It remains that people of colour are more likely to be profiled and prejudiced into a confrontation with police-
But once in a confrontation with police, it’s “Us vs. Them”.
Renée Good and Alex Pretty were this month.
My argument is not that now suddenly white people in the US experience as much police brutality and arbitrariness as PoC in the US. It just seems the chances of white people surviving such encounters are dropping.
This is what I meant, yes
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Billy has a much better chance of survival due to his skin color.
IDK man, there might be a slight brownish hue…
Anything not blue is brown
Who’s the artist? Please include the source
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This is messed up
Don’t go around spreading hate just to hate. Sure there are bad cops but there are also a ton of cops who just want to make the world a better place.
They should start within their own ranks then. But everyone who keeps looking away is as bad as the rest.
Rule #2?
Also Rule #5?
And yet so many people voted for her
Alls you have to do is comply.
YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY
Ah the good old days… Back when they gave you a full 20 seconds before shooting you for being unarmed.
every comm is usa politics
TBF this applies too many countries police forces.
Edit; “too” not “to”.
No, “to” is correct.
Apparently Im having a bit of a morning.
Me two!
And me tew.
Me 3
This is not a US exclusive issue. Don’t be so US centric.
Oh, my sweet summer child…
