My favorite thing about it is this the more you watch cop shows and cop movies the more you notice a pattern. The biggest villain for all of those shows, the most consistent threat? Internal affairs. It's like every single movie and every single series it has shown up at least once. Those God damn Internal Affairs people stopping good cops from doing what they need to do. It's maybe the single strongest trend throughout all of these shows and movies.
Hell it was even a plot point in Psych. The show about fake psychic detectives had a bad guy Internal Affairs officer.
I used to work for the Medical Examiner's Office. I've picked up more than my share of rape/murder victims. You wouldn't believe the shit I've heard cops say about the victims. I've only ever met a few detectives who really cared and were decent human beings, and coincidentally, they all came from years (or decades) in some other industry before joining their departments as detectives because they had advanced degrees. Never met a single uniformed cop or "promoted from within" detective who was anything other than a soulless piece of power tripping shit at their core.
I wish I could find that Reddit post about the commenter who called the police every time her ex came by and they literally told her that their arms are tied and there's nothing they can do. She asked them what will it take for them to act, and the cops said, "Maybe if he tried to kill you."
And she even said the restraining order meant nothing to the cops.
Hey, it's not always like that. Now they can also report the victims to ICE, which makes the problem go away much faster.
They can even have gang tattoos and still don't get sent to the work camps.
1312! Fuck the police
Watching Live PD last night. Guy runs on a motorcycle. They have the area surrounded after he ditches. They're looking for him and one cop spots him. He commands the guy and he's complying. He's almost on his knees and another cop spots him. He ran, full on run, and leapt onto the guy that was almost on his knees. The other guy that was commanding jumped on him after that as well. Guy wasn't resisting. Guy was complying. Guy had hands in the air. Guy wasn't reaching for anything.
Cop after: "He ran and we didn't know what he was capable of. So we tackled him and restrained him."
It's absolute cop wank material. All of it. The majority of the time they are way over reactive and then try to justify it all. They have that disclaimer, but then most of the time they never really follow up with info, or proper info. "Guy was booked on blah blah." Ok, but was he actually convicted? Was he found guilty, or did you just over react and your "oh I totally for sure smell weed" was bullshit. I'm fucking sick of seeing that too. How many times has jackass said that only to find...nothing.
One night I walked home from work, in my work uniform, and some old guy with a personalized license plate asked me if I wanted to get coffee, at 9 pm. I was like, um no, and you're weird, and then I went home and thought about it and decided to report it, wasn't that long after the Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo serial killings of young girls in my city. The cop who showed up to take my statement asked me what I had been wearing, and then called me back to tell me he was just a lonely old guy looking for someone to talk to. Like who on Betty White's green earth pulls over to try and convince a stranger to get into their car at 9 pm, a young woman many decades your junior, and thinks that's normal? Fucking cops.
I encourage everyone to watch Skip Intro's series on Copaganda: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ac8vr2QyTdlWwd8OQIc1it6bAfMGPPC (also available on Nebula)
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ACAB every day but don't you dare come for Mariska Hargitay. 1) we all know SVU is fiction (that's why they say it every episode), and most of us are aware it's mostly fantasy and also 2) svu often points out the shortcomings of other non-them svu teams and the NYPD in general.
Mariska is a gem irl. Let me enjoy my fantasy cop show.
(It has to be said: this is a tongue-in-cheek comment and I understand the point that was being made in the meme, I just really love svu ok.)
I posted this on FB today and my friend that works in the domestic violence shelter system told me she'll tell me over coffee how many cops show up to harass women staying at the shelter.
I think this is missing the key ingredient: is the victim white and attractive?
