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Originally Posted by blankall
There are a lot of people underestimating how difficult law enforcement jobs are in this thread. It's a job where your life is constantly in danger and you have to deal with the most difficult and dangerous people in society.
Hiring practices are not entirely to blame here. Having an extremely stressful job is likely to change a lot of otherwise level people into "ragers".
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Are they really though? That's like saying I am constantly in danger when I drive on the highway because I could die in an instant. There's plenty of time when cops are just on patrol or responding to regular calls. Their whole shift isn't getting shot at by gangs and drug dealers.
And if anything, the Philando Castile showed just how much of a problem we have. The girlfriend is shown in her facebook live video as entirely calm while just witnessing her boyfriend murdered in front of her while her child was in the back seat. Yet the trained officer was the one that could not hold his composure. He was the one that over reacted. He was the one that escalated.
Here is my real issue. Say we consider an incident like the Castile shooting an accident or say the officer is a bad apple. Why then are we still seeing so many incidents that cops claim are justified but citizen journalism or body cams show as fabrications? Why is the blue wall still defending these people? Why is the threshold for convicting law enforcement so insanely high? Why do these officers with excessive force and firearm incidents get hired by other departments like nothing happened?
The continued lack of oversight and punishment allows this corruption to continue. It's sad that in 2018 we still have such problems.