How Many Cops Are Domestic Abusers? | Renegade Cut
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- Some say it's only 10%. Some say it's as high as 40%. Everyone knows it's higher than average, though. Law enforcement contains a disproportionate amount of domestic abusers. Support Renegade Cut on Patreon: / renegadecut
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"Police Domestic Violence: Handbook for Victims" Diane Wetendorf
"Police Personality and Domestic Violence" Victoria Hargan
"Police Wife" Alex Roslin
To everyone who has commented "Where is the Star Trek clip and the video game clip from the old intro?" from the past two videos:
They're gone for a reason. If I kept them, people would naturally assume that some Star Trek videos and other pop culture videos would be forthcoming, and they're not. At all. The intro reflects the topics that will be discussed in the future. I didn't just forget.
I just got my millionth "Remember when this channel did movie videos?!" comment, and I deleted it like I have every time someone has done that. I can't tell you how boring I find that. I do what I can to let people know what is and is not coming. Keeping those clips would give people the wrong impression, and I'm not going to do that.
Thanks.
If you think these numbers are bad you should see how bad lesbian abuse is.
According to the Medical University of South Carolina, lesbians have reported experiences of as high up to 45% of some form of physical abuse.
@@excrubulent truth. There's plenty of pop culture review channels, but far fewer hard left channels willing to discuss real issues in a raw and uncensored manner. If someone appreciates the first more than the second, then I feel they have their priorities out of order.
Can I ask what music you're using for your intro? Particularly this latest version? I love that beat.
@@GrahfGames It's a mashup of the two previous themes.
I haven't seen any movie content from you and I dont want it either. This video is content to be proud of.
It is, objectively, the best line of work for a perpetrator who has the inclination to misbehave in this way.
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Always satisfying to see a good take from the legendary Tay Zonday.
Knowing that this amazing man is still out there- lurking YT comments sections... makes me super happy.
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11:20 there was one story recently where the officer used city resources to track his victim's phone and had her arrested for kidnapping their child
Translation- rescuing the child
Ooooo. I always get so excited when u drop a new video. Consistently 🔥🔥
dating someone whose a cop or military/ex military is a no go lmao
Great video!
I dunno, let’s ask the police union for numbers. Oh, that’s right…
The only union conservatives back
My coworker used to date a cop. She described seeing a new therapist and after one session of describing her emotional and relationship struggles the therapist asked "Are you dating a cop?" Police abuse is so rampant and thorough that the therapist just knew.
There's a nice spray paint tag on a dumpster near where I live that reads "Good cops quit"
I suspect That Dang Dad would wholeheartedly agree with this!
And it's sad because we actually need the hood ones to stay.
@@AngelaMerici12 the good ones get forced out or murdered by the bad ones.
@@Greenarchy True!
@@AngelaMerici12 You're misunderstanding the tag.
There are no good cops. There can never be any good cops. Cops, as a brute fact of their job descriptions, create homeless people by evicting the housed for the crime of being poor. They enforce explicitly and implicitly racist laws, maintain a system and a history of oppression upon every minority community, and shatter communities just by doing the work for which they are hired. Cops are the reason for mass incarceration, as there could be no prisons without them. They are the reason for the entire stereotype about black fathers not existing, because they are the ones taking black fathers away. They are the reason for the "crime-ridden" neighborhoods they are told to police, because those neighborhoods have had their social fabric broken over generations of the actions of previous cops.
Every cop does this. Even a cop who never draws their sidearm in their entire career, embodies the threat of state-sponsored murder at all times while on the clock. Even a cop who is a perfect, model member of their community, with no dark secrets and no violent tendencies, participates in the system which does all of the above and more to the people they ostensibly serve and protect. There can be no good cops because the job of being a cop implies, requires, participation in this evil.
All cops are bastards. There are no exceptions. The mantle of cop obligates bastardry, by its very existence. This will forever be the case, until cops stop being cops.
The fact that every cop show since the beginning of time portrays Internal Affairs as antagonists is all you need to know about how bad cops really are.
This like why what do you have to hide
Ian Rankin's "The Complaints" did a pretty good job of humanising and demonstrating the political pressure Internal Affairs face
Or police brutality in interrogation is shown as totally necessary because some of these criminals just won’t cooperate.
This is also great coverup. When "Internal Affairs" clears a complaint, that means it must be legitimate, because as TV has taught us, Internal Affairs HATES cops.
But the reality is they're all the same, and Internal Affairs is there to help cover up misconduct, not to hold people accountable.
The contrast with Korean police procedurals is stark. In K-dramas, at least 1/4 of the police are corrupt as fuck, and there is always some crooked politician that has their backs. Often, it's like 4 good cops vs. the entire municipal police force, which is either corrupt, or following the orders of a corrupt police chief.
A racist, a domestic abuser, and a murderer walk into a bar. The bartender says "What'll it be, officer?"
Underrated comment
Great joke. Sad and hilarious at the same time.😂
@@bobdollaz3391 the difference is, Tyrone is a better man than you'll ever be! He and I will be with your wife when you're at the bar.
@@bobdollaz3391 You trying to be clever or something?
@@bobdollaz3391 Found the officer’s child, Kyle Billybob. We’ll be finding your manifesto soon and you’ll be sending bullets to your previous school.
I remember reading about a town in Alaska where it was discovered that 100% of the police department had a history of domestic violence (many of them with convictions).
The town had a record of hiring cops who got kicked out of other departments across the US, which explains the 100% figure. It also makes you realise that domestic violence was not something they considered a black mark when hiring someone. Which is extremely worrying, and you can only wonder just how widespread that attitude is.
Yeah, that's normal. On the rare occasion that cops actually get in trouble for their crimes, when there are actually ramifications for their malefactions, they just transfer to another department, often just a few blocks away. They almost never get _fired_ let alone decertified, and even on the rare occasion they do, it only applies to that state, so they'll just go hide up in Alaska like Dexter and other serial-killers. 😒
Cops are only punished for their crimes when the public outcry is great enough that the state politicians are worried about their jobs.
Alaska sounds like hell
@@trashpageant7861 You're fine if you're in the countryside, mostly. And there's plenty of it. But yeah there's a lot of drug problems and crazies cuz Alaska is viewed as the place nobody can get you.
Yes, you're absolutely 💯 right. I myself read that same article years ago, and it made me wonder with worry ever since.
"The polite code of silence dictates that no matter what, cops protect and defend other cops." Sounds more like a mafia than an institution created to protect people.
They technically are a mafia since they are not obligated to "protect and serve" you, unless you're a wealthy white-collar capitalist.
Well, that’s how the US police force started. The service was formed to track down enslaved people who ran away. And people were often ordered to work shifts as a punishment for committing petty crime. Organized crime was rampant in the police force for a long time.
Would you like to get in trouble? Lol No one does....
Human Nature....
They aren’t there to protect people. They are there to protect property.
Was a cop for 17 years. Resigned out of disgust.
This video is 100%.
A bastard for 17 years
Well, took long enough for you to leave that cult
Thanks for speaking up. It’s a perfect example of how the “good ones” are being essentially reduced to outcasts within the law enforcement community, and are exposed to such a toxic working environment that they have basically no other choice but to find another line of work. It’s sad that the people who genuinely get into this type of work for benevolent reasons, are forced by their conscience to abandon ship once they find out it’s being steered by a crew of feral rats. Thanks for being a good human 👍✌🏻🇺🇸
It took 17 years to get disgusted? With whom? Yourself?
@@southernsmoke8391 Maybe he thought he could change the system from the inside, some people join with that goal in mind. Of course, it never works because police can only be abolished, never reformed. The incredibly few rare good people either end up fired, quitting, or killed.
Finally became a good cop huh? Good on ya bud
My brother-in-law was a cop for 30 years. He said that in his experience a large percentage of abuse cases involved cops as the abuser and on the flip side, nurses were more likely to be the abused. He retired in the late 1990's, but I don't imagine much has changed since.
Indeed, speaking from someone minor in the medical field. A lot can be said about nursing being a stress, so "allowing" that abuse is sometimes seen (in my experience) as "just what you have to deal with"
Not much has changed at all. People in those careers still date and marry, and abuse like this still happens.
Nurses are more likely to be abused?! Wtf Our society's guardian angels!
Some fascinating hints at a larger context there...
There's a famous book about the personal letters and fiction of the Freikorps fascists. What keeps coming up, over and over again, is the 'virgin/whore' dichotomy, exemplified by their sexualized terror of the 'red woman' (with her flaunting of mores and/or militant socialism/unionism) and focused worship of the 'white woman', most often personified as a nurse or family caregiver.
Whoa betide the 'white woman' who reveals herself 'red,' for she will receive the just wrath of a godly man.
'Male Fantasies, Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History'
My mom was a correctional officer. Domestic abuse is known in all types of agencies. Whether it's PD (city),sheriff (county/rural), state trooper, or higher levels of law enforcement such as FBI and homeland security. These agencies attract a certain type of people who will verbally, emotionally, intimately, and physically abuse their spouses. Many cop supporters and fellow officers would defend a cop who is a DV offender. I heard it all my life: "It's the job, it's the stress, it's the politics, it's the [ ] excuse. But like my mom said, growing up. " Some criminals wear stripes. The clever ones were badges and suites." She was physically assaulted by another officer when she helped her nephew fight a police brutality case against a fellow sheriff officer. She didn't give a damn about loyalty, and he made sure he knew who she was by going to where she worked in the jail and kicking her out of her chair. He was only suspended without pay for his actions. He was terminated for assaulting a fellow officer while in uniform while on shift. He had no business being in the jail, let alone in the area she worked. But he managed to get to her so he could attack her. I remember that, my mom came home with back pain, and she was furious. She wanted him fired, but I.A. and jail warden said they would suspend him without pay. She wanted to press charges, but her director, including that assaulting officer's commander, told her that wasn't going to be necessary. The suspension without pay was enough discipline.
The culture of cops protects each other no matter what is why my mom left corrections. She couldn't take it anymore and thay was some 15 Yeats ago. I doubt anything has changed.
so sorry to ya mom bby girl 💪🏾 she spoke some real shit !!
Sounds like your mom was one of the good ones. Which, unfortunately, is a horrible object lesson in why there are so few good ones.
A spoonful of shit turns a barrel of honey into a barrel of shit.
Everyone now have cell-phone cams, dashcams & home/business security cams & police in general "HATE THEM" & are greatly offended when a common citizen tries to film & record them!!
I was abused by my mother growing up, once at 17 and when the cops got called they just laughed at me, told me to be a "man" and move out. she would use police calls to "scare" me growing up just because she couldn't beat me like a child anymore since I was a huge kid. everytime a cop was involved she would act like i was an out of control animal and they would always treat me like one, cuff me put me in the car and sweat me out. I'll never forgive any of them for it, i almost became a cop just to do it to her. believe it.
I'm saddened that was your experience growing up. I wish I could give you a hug, sending a virtual one. I really dislike cops and it's every story like this one that serves as a warning to question everything they do. Thank you for sharing it
I'm very sorry these things were done to you and how so many adults betrayed you, even though their job would have been accepting, supporting and protecting you. I hope you can build a better found family for yourself because you deserve it.
@@JadeReloaded Hell yeah thank science and the universal force for comedy, art, music, and cannabis. Took many years to unlearn all the self righteous Christian "eye for an eye" bullshit they brainwash all of us boys with growing up. (still working on it) sometimes i shudder in horror thinking how wild i would have been going military/police career instead of state college for graphic design. I was drinking the bush koolaid hard back then could have gone either way on the whole life of vengeance and hate thing.
This is horrible! I'm so sorry you had to go through this. :(
Abusive parents suck.
Thank you for sharing Gary. Glad you did not become a cop. Keep your chin up
As a dispatcher allow me to add this. Ask for EMS (ambulance service)first go to a hospital get the doctors to document any and all injuries in your medical history that way even if you don't feel comfortable for the obvious reasons of reporting you have a medical history as testimony for your abuse.
this should be the top 3 comments
There's another category of victims you missed; same sex partners of police officers. The only person I know who has been in a romantic relationship with a police officer was a woman who was dating a cop who was also a woman. The cop was (shocker) incredibly abusive for years until they finally broke up.
She's now dating another cop. We don't keep in touch anymore, but I'm afraid for her.
I feel sorry for her.
Please reach back out to her.
"They used to say we could grow up to be cops or criminals, and to that I say this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?" - The Departed
"Police is the most succesfull criminal organisation in history." - Jiří Kulhánek
There are things that criminals won't do and won't help cover up. Also, crimes committed by cops are much worse than those done by criminals.
To be real, giving potentially fragile people prone to power tripping a few months training and then giving them a license to kill, surveil, use force, pass judgement on others and give them the most supreme protections against the law and the criticisms of civilians… is probably not a great idea.
It's a great idea if you're trying to create a private military whose only purpose is to protect property and the 1%
Communities were secured by the community for many years. Whoever saw someone violating the social norms had the power to bring the person to the local judge.
The police were established to protect property on behalf of the property owners. This includes slavery enforcement, factory and business activity among other forms of property that the wealthy find worth needing protection.
Police have always been chosen by the political elite and the wealthy. It should not be a surprise that the industry has spent 200+ years becoming increasingly abusive to society at large and those close to them.
@@YaBoiJonesy LMFAO well said
when you put it like that it really throws things into perspective 😟
@@YaBoiJonesy - Depends on whose property. Ever try having the cops protect your private property rights as a commoner?
Another tip for reporting, if you have another type of police force in your area, like state troopers, see if you can go to them first. There will still be some protect other law enforcement bias, but you might have a better chance with getting it out of the control of their friends and department.
Report out of your community. Go to the next county or report to the police ombudsman in the state. If you can find whoever your abuser's agency sees as their rival/enemy you have a better chance of getting a hearing. Go directly to the district attorney or state attorney if you have to. This is true if you are reporting on a relative an officer as well in small towns. The good ole boy network extends to their kids and siblings too. It is frustrating as hell
Had a neighbor who was a cop. Was always confused why they blasted music/ TV at random times. It was because he would abuse his live in gf. All of us neighbors knew, and we were also too afraid to call.
Hey yeah, this is what I mean by gen z isn’t progressive. We just don’t take sh*t. Wish this video released before my town did a town hall meeting for a new cop PR job. Would have grilled him.
Holy shit this TV thing happens as well with one of my neighbors who is a cop...
Who wants to be a cop's target??
Gun-lovers love to spout the 2nd-amendment to justify having guns for "protection", but they always talk about protection from random people, where the constitution never said such thing, it meant protection from the _authorities_ if they get corrupted, as in the government, the military and the police. The thing is that if you ever actually tried to exercise the 2nd-amendment, they'd call in SWAT to perforate you and smear your name in the media as a criminal. This is no different, if you actually tried to do the right thing and stand up to a cop, they'd treat you like the criminal. 🤦
@@AngelaMerici12that’s the thing. You are always a target, they just need a reason to make up a reason to arrest you. Which they have done. For someone walking across the street.
The bigger issue is how law enforcement is actually held to a LOWER standard than society itself. We expect ordinary citizens to behave and know the law better than cops.
If cops got harder sentences for their actions as well as higher level of scrutiny and transparency, it wouldn't be such a beacon for these types.
Having worked in DV advocacy in a rural area: All of this is magnified for those who don't live in urban areas. It's harder to physically get out, easier to be isolated, and it can be harder to get an OP. The OP (at least in my state) means that an abuser can't have access to guns, and if you've got a judge who is skeptical about the victim's story or is super pro-cop they may not grant it. The local police force (if the abuser is part of said force) may not enforce the order if the survivor is still in the area. The good news, though, is that you don't have apply for an OP in the jurisdiction that the abuse took place in. It can be in a different county or district, assuming the survivor is staying there at the time. Filing for one needs to be acted on quickly, though, because judges may not see the danger if it's been multiple days or weeks since a person fled and haven't acted on it. (Believe me, I know how counterintuitive this can be as a person dealing with active trauma is not in the headspace to be doing the paperwork or making lots of decisions and would rightfully want to clear their head before going into a court room.) Another consideration, as was mentioned in the video, is that DV shelters (we're pushing the away from calling them women's shelters because those that accept federal funds have to admit survivors of all genders, and we know that people of all genders can be abused and need a place to go), are often under funded and under staffed. This may result in them not being able to accept victims who are from outside their service area (mine covered 8 counties but it still wasn't enough in some cases.)
But all of this is why we need advocates and we need people who can provide the resources, and understand the systems and supports available. They need to be able to provide that information and guidance (not legal advice, though) to survivors. We can't put it all on those who are in the scariest moment of their lives to try to solve all their problems. And we definitely need to be armed with information like what Leon presented to explain why abused partners don't "just leave" when they are mistreated. And we need to talk about that attempting to leave is statistically the most potentially lethal moment for someone being abused. Add access to guns and the training of cops to use force on those who are trying to evade and that is terrifying.
The DV shelter movement was born out of a lack of support for women in abusive situations by the systems around them. We need to keep expanding the mutual aid and community care that allows survivors to actually get out.
(If you read this far, thank you
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This
They need to open boys shelters too there's sons and some husband's involved too.
All of this!
Well said
The people who wanted to be police growing up were people YOU DO NOT WANT as police officers. All of them with NO EXCEPTION were short fuse, controlling, manipulative bullies.
Policing attracts the 'police personality ', individuals best described as thugs and bullies (which is not to say all police are, but many/most are, and the so-called good cops do eventually leave).
Here in Queensland the rate of domestic violence amongst serving police is many times higher than the community average. That, and other higher rates of criminality amongst police, compared to the community average, should make a prudent person pause to consider the situation.
The bad officers who were bullies and still are bullies will go to hell when their time on Earth is over.
I disagree I've known several who were bullied in school and now they have become the BULLY
@@adammayo5611 No, all were bullied. They grew and now have PTSD and mental issues.
yeah out of all the men i know who served only one went in who wasnt like that and also he is actually aware of the facts in this vid so he is going in with that knowledge but knows he has to keep his true feelings a secret to get the work done he wants to get done
I was once advised by a career police officer that the best way to avoid being issued a ticket during a traffic stop as a woman is to cry and claim that you are trying to please your husband so he doesn't hit you. Apparently this works because a lot of male police officers beat their own wives and take pity on docile women 😒
The most fun fact I’ve ever heard…😧
jfc, that is...
... Wow, I have no words.
Can confirm: Friend of my mom's did this successfully on more than one occasion.
I'd imagine it wouldn't work if they're the kind of abusers who get angry when they see tears. My bio father was an abusive cop. He abused myself and my sister. Our tears never made a difference unless you counted irritating him more.
@So? I'm glad you brought that up, because the first thing I thought was how dangerous that advice could be. I wouldn't chance it, if you can help it
40% self report, so it is for sure more than 40%.
Assuming 40% is the ceiling ignores that cops know what it means to implicate yourself in a crime. 40% is absolutely the floor and we will probably never know how high the ceiling goes.
The ceiling is 100%
It also means that the other 60% looks the other way. So 100% of cops are complicit.
@@rangda_prime But what about our tHin BluE liNe? Whatever will we do if we get rid of the armed criminals who take care of the armed criminals?
The 40% were just the ones who felt comfortable telling on themselves. It’s likely 60-75%
@@gsp4prez likely 90% tbh
When we say ACAB it's for a reason
All cops are bulletproof. Try it out today 😂
yup good people don t become cops
The reason being stupidity?
Assigned Cop At Birth!?
I’d say it’s for many reasons
Im a case manager at a women's homeless/DV shelter.
I would bungee jump with dental floss before I even so much as befriended a cop, let alone became the intimate partner of one.
The things I have heard from victims of their deranged psyches is pure nightmare fuel. Everything from being poisoned over months, to being chained in a basement and beaten, to watching their police sargeant husband point his service weapon at their infant child and demand she confess to an affair that never happened.
These men are uniquely dangerous and truly do not believe they can be touched. I had one come to the shelter in full gear, on-shift, and demand to be told if his wife was there. He even claimed he was there on duty with full legal authority. He was actually on his lunch break and refused to call in another unit to confirm his "legally necessity" to access his wife.
She had to hunker down inside the shelter while another staff called more units (and didnt specify it was one of their own trying to break in) and this guy threatened WITH HIS WHOLE CHEST to arrest staff for refusing to use their keyfobs to let him in the building. He even reached for a staff's lanyard at one point. We had this all on multiple security cameras, and all the other cops did was give him a pat on the back and a "Hey, buddy, lets go cool off". No report number was given or filed.
She eventually left to go with family in another state, and I always hope she's okay, but there is always the twinge of doubt.
Because all, yes, absolutely fucking ALLLLLLL cops are bastards.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Things like this prove beyond a shadow of a doubt how rotten to the core cops are.
I subconsciously always in games where you fought police whether it is beating up the GCPD officers in Batman arkham origins or the Gladstone guards in lands of lore they are always my favorite now I know why they are abusers I always felt that but couldn't put my finger on it.
Very BASED 👍
if you have more examples def post, this was a good read. (the insanity of an non existent affair, scary)
Meh. Does that mean that mothers that have offered up Prayers for payback with many many tears have been heard ? I hope so. I hope it is a direct result of those Prayers.
A job that tells gives you the freedom to escalate any situation as far as you want to get what you desire can only create monsters
Not just gives you the freedom, but actively trains and encourages you to do so. That's why it's a systemic issue. ACAB because the institution of policing is monstrous.
It's not just the job, it's the WHOLE SYSTEM that's corrupt that teaches it, encourages it, defends and protects it, and lets it off scot-free. The cops, their superiors, the prosecutors, the judges, the council-members, the mayors, the governors, all of them. And it's not an American problem, it's a GLOBAL problem, the whole world has a cop problem. It's not even just cops, it's also soldiers and guards, all jobs that are all about force and authority.
@@blahblahghost "ACAB" is hyperbolic. It's more accurate to say "SCAB" (it also works better). Though it's even _more_ accurate, if not as fun, to say "MCAB" because at this point, it's safe to assume that more than 50% are corrupt or dirty.
You still have to be the kind of person to want to do that.
Protecting and Serving - Not Even Once.
They protect and serve the shit out of their spouses
-To Protect and Serve-
To Punish and Enslave
Had a cop get livid with me when he wanted to commit tax evasion and I refused to help. He ended up taking his wife into the car and I fear for her. I refused to work with him again but he apparently came back in a couple hours alone and cool as a cucumber. Given he made me feel afraid as was…. Blech.
He probably calmed down after taking his anger out on her. SMH
To give you an idea of how bad it can be:
My friend who was in a foster situation under a female police officer opted to go back to a highly absive household where his sa'er resided still than suffer under the female police officer.
Thats how bad it was
Law enforcement must know the laws they are enforcing. If they break the law they should be held accountable to a higher standard than the average citizen. Qualified immunity makes this impossible and soon citizens will take the matter into their own hands.
That's all I think about when I look back at the States: DIY justice. I don't want to go back to the States, but if I did, I'd want to live in a community where we handle our own. Someone breaks into someone's house, don't call the police, call or text a number that will alert a group of neighbors to come with weapons and be prepared to administer a beatdown (at the very least).
Since robbers are stupid AF and fixate on a house/neighborhood, they tend to come back again and again. So, make them understand that the neighborhood is not to be messed with, and if they (or their friends) come, they will regret it. F calling the police. Cripple an essential limb to where it'll never heal, so that every time they look at it, they'll remember. An eye for an eye is the best teacher when it comes to criminals/violent people. And I say that as a non-violent person who is fed up.
Thank you for talking about this topic. I grew up with a dad in law enforcement, and he abused me throughout my life, starting at age 8 or 9. I lived for years with the knowledge that telling anyone would hurt me more than help me, and even running away would just mean he’d be that much angrier when the authorities handed me back over to him.
My brother didn’t learn that lesson as quickly and actually told his school principal “my dad beats me.” Before reporting it, the principal apologized to my dad because she had no choice as a mandatory reporter, giving him a heads up on what my brother had said. The DHS caseworker assigned to the report called my dad and said basically “we got this report, isn’t that funny? I’m just gonna close it without investigating cause I know you’re a stand-up guy and would never do that.” My dad’s abuse of my brother didn’t stop.
I’m 30 years old now and safer than I ever was growing up, but it still terrifies me to know that I can never hide my address from him (he can look me up in government databases), and that if he shows up, there is no one to call for help. I’ve even warned my friends and partners not to try to intervene if he gets violent because the BEST case scenario would be my partner going to jail for years for attacking a cop while my dad faced no consequences.
I’m hundreds of miles away now and I’ve changed my name, but I still won’t feel completely safe until he’s dead.
This is why I don't agree with mandatory reporting.
As someone who grew up on conservative propaganda and who joined the military to be the good guy, I was immediately disillusioned upon meeting my heroes. And yet, I trust the average watchstander more than the average cop. I’m not a child anymore but it still bites to see the amount of just “badness.” It forces me to shed a lot of my notions I valued as a kid. But adaptation is part of life, eh?
At least you realised eventually
I almost forget that this kind of growth is possible, thank you for sharing
I went from "Joining the military is a pretty morally neutral job choice" to "I am a gangster for capitalism and an alarming number of my colleagues are psychopaths" real fast as well.
My big bro got the patriotism bug and went to Iraq... held a fob near Tikrit and some other action as a reservist. He came back partly whole and wholly disillusioned. I think in the subsequent years he's rationalized it a bit more (fight them there, etc), but his deep abhorrence for war and those who would cheer for it remains.
I'm glad you're in a better place.
@@swissarmyknight4306 same, but mexican version
These concerns are equally valid for Prison guards/Corrections officers. My roommate dated one and they were extremely controlling. I never witnessed any physical altercations but heard about some that happened at a bar. Biggest red flag for me was learning that my roommate wasn't allowed to shower on her own if the partner was home... that was extra creepy to me.
As a professional educator of adults, I am so, so sick to death of hearing, "well they were trained that way" or that education will fix the problem. A sad reality of the field of andragogy is that adults will learn just enough to parrot back and pass a test, and then completely disregard the information the second their environment permits them to do so. You can't teach a liar to be honest, you can't teach an entitled person out of their entitlement, or someone who's acting in bad faith to act in good faith, you can't teach someone who went into a career field explicitly to hurt others to *not do that.* You can only set up systems that will filter them our and remove those who got past the filtering process.
I don't think the general public fully realizes how many of their doctors and nurses think chakras and crystals will solve their medical issues, and have only the laws and practices of the hospital to thank for the fact that their nurse didn't try to use quartz crystals and/or bible readings to fix your kidney stones.
Same goes for the police. No amount of training is going to fix what's wrong with the police without extensive, *expensive* and time consuming restructuring of the cops as a whole. The current batch is already going out of its way to undermine the bare minimum guardrails in place, and are demonstrating how ineffective reforming the police as an organization would be. It's literally cheaper and more efficient to just wipe the slate clean and start over with how we want law enforcement to work.
so true. memorize, regugertate, forget. thats the way they teach in elementry schools too.
agreed. my last general practicioner didn't believe in COVID--literally did not believe the virus existed. thought it was a government hoax. (she also believed in QAnon, so...). antivaxxer too. the only reason she wore a mask is because clinic policy required face masks (even pre 2019) for providers before interacting with patients.
Don't even get me started on nurses. there's a reason people in the disability community call them cops. 🫠
I just wanted to say that this comment is excellent.
Yikes! I had no idea there were that many doctors and nurses who believe in woo crystal nonsense.
I agree that post-conditioning re-training of existing police officers will do little to stop their abusive practices in and out of the uniform. However, I do agree with Leon that the current training and conditioning that cops go through pushes cops towards abusive behavior. Right now, the issue is not just that we're not training cops to stop being abusive, we're actively training them how to be abusive, and instilling values in them that convince them that they should be.
Abolish the police.
Really appreciate the practical advice for victims included here, nice work
My father can be added to this group
And hurting without leaving marks is very accurate! Can’t tell you how many times my father did “pressure points” that hurt like hell and thought it was funny
Same as the military, it's astounding how on both sides higher ups will hide or shield offenders in order to save a carrer, same goes for dui's
My husband is in the Navy they had a party and then got a day off. Because the facility that he works at went 2 years without anyone getting a dui
That's why cops and soldiers are an instant no-go in any capacity in my life. We can't even be acquaintances.
Gotta love how the excuse they give is always that “women don’t belong in the force”.
Yeah, my SO was in the military when we were married (we separated for a brief time, but we're back together now) and he was bullied and assaulted. When I wanted to report it, he got so scared because of the retaliation that he could experience if the harassment was reported, even though it says that there's a zero tolerance for retaliation. People will still retaliate regardless of that rule and it's really sad. We did report it and something was finally done about it, but it left him with heavy emotional and mental scars to the point that he just retired.
My dad sort of fell into being a police officer. He was struggling his senior year of college for a STEM degree, got too discouraged and went to the police for an immediate well paying job. He didn't go in with the "police personality" but he certainly developed one. Luckily he was never abusive, but who he was in uniform isn't someone I liked.
Gang culture.
@@TSmith-yy3cc Literally
I was friends with a guy who used to be a motorcop in California, and he told me that during his training they would haze the recruits. That's pretty much gang initiation process 101
100% the cops are gang that has the full power of the state and federal government behind them
Number of cops that are abusers: Varies from 10% to 40%.
Number of cops that are complicit in that abuse: 100%
I don’t trust your data. I’m betting it’s 85% abusers. And 100% covered by the blue line. The gang in blue.
The same thing in the uk. The average rate for domestic abuse convictions is 6.9% if you are a police officer it drops to 3.9% .When my niece told me she was dating a police officer l was terrified. Thank god he ended the relationship. If it had been the other way round he had all the power the state bestowed upon him to make her life a living hell.
This is slightly different, but it has to do with power too. TW: abuse. It is not just police. My dad was a CEO at a water company. The only time my mom dared to call the police was when he nearly choked me to death multiple time when I was a kid, but hung up after 3 seconds in fear because she knew nobody would listen, that's why I ran away so many times. They came over anyway, my dad was in his bed watching a movie just asking 'Do you know who I am? I can give you your salary for months, just leave us alone.' They didn't even give papers they just left. I cried seeing them leave 'you were our only hope how dare you.'
I'm so thankful you survived and are sharing this with us. Yes, power and lack of oversight corrupts people in so many ways. Hope you are now safe.
Police are protected from many consequences because they protect positions of power. Real power always gets away with almost anything.
Indeed. This problem is rampant in the police, military, and guards (prison or private), but it can happen anywhere. It's all about someone exerting force and authority over others to make themselves feel important. 😒 (But a water-company isn't exactly a top-10 guess.)
I sincerely hope that you and your mom and siblings got away from that horrible person. And hopefully, you could heal from the trauma one day, because that sort of hurt stays for decades. 😢 I had narcissistic parents and a golden child narcissistic brother, with me as the scapegoat. Even now at the age of 36, living on my own, the pain and grief of losing my pets' lives to those people (they killed them and ate the bodies when I wasn't home) will never leave.
@@jessicatsao92 they should be feeling the pain, not you. You've suffered enough. My family also did harm to my pets, ultimately the best way I have found to deal with it is to keep the love and care for my beloved cats in my heart, while batting the pain and horror back to the perpetrators - because it's rightfully theirs, not mine to carry on top of everything else. All the best to you and much care.
The fact that, despite how dangerous and difficult is for the victims to come forward, 40% of the cops are still *reported* is enough to tell you how violent these people are
Someone has to bare the burden when a cop couldn’t flex on a minority that day.
Or when they didn't see any dogs to kill
Now I understand what ACAB means.
love dancing to the banger intro before sitting down to listen to the depressing subject.
Pigs love snitches until they snitch on them
Being a cop literally corrupts your soul. You don't have to believe in magic or be deeply spiritual to see it. The core of who you are as a person, whether it is an intrinsic ethereal thing tied to your being or just the culmination of your values, opinions, & personality. The thing that makes you you is corrupted by being in a position with that much power and that little oversight.
For those of us who believe in magick, it’s like being granted access to forbidden dark arts under the guise of protecting the world from the same forbidden magick. Society largely remains steadfast in their confidence the user’s intentions remain pure and uncorrupted.
Also, the type of people of who become police officers are a factor as well.
Or you could just substitute in the damage PTSD does to the prefrontal cortex and then it might make more sense. We can measure the brain damage but we can't measure magic unfortunately.
It's not so much being a cop corrupts people, but that law enforcement attracts problematic personalities. Cops are corrupt *before* they join.
@@MissMaserati Why bring PTSD into this? Policing isn’t even that dangerous statistically. Most cops don’t have PTSD, most of them are just pieces of shit. It’s a self selecting process on the hiring end, and it’s institutional pressure to conform to shitty cop behaviors over the long term.
This isn't related to the abuser topic but I went back home to visit my family for easter this past Sunday and was very disappointed to see what was once our town's public library has now been transformed into a police department, even with blue lives matter flags in the windows 🤮
From a public service to a public menace
Lol this is currently happening in my hometown. Cops are expanding their building and it's gonna literally wrap around the front of our beautiful library and block it off from view. What better way to keep civilians dumb and complacent than to monopolise or destroy their places of learning, after all?
Depends on how many cops are single.
And why they are
They're all single after they murder their spouse
They could be abusing a child, sibling, parent or other relative.
Ouch, burn!
A new motto: “keep cops single”
I've only ever known one cop personally in my life, he's the "organizer" of our pickup games and just from the way he behaves, you can just tell he's not a person you wanna be around. His default is to believe that people are trying to take advantage of him, he's a perpetual pessimist, always jumps to the worst conclusions without a thought in his head. He's married with a kid and I'm like damn, wouldn't want him to be my husband or father.
How does a man like that even strike up a romantic relationship? Those are the signs that you would think repel women
cops in America are awful i was taught chess by a cop in Ashburton new zealand he retired because of the mere mention of American police having their training recognised in new zealand, which it isn't but the mere consideration made him retire and change to civil rights activism.
Had a woman in a self-defence class. Very nice woman, never a bad word on her lips, shy to a degree. Once we talked about domestic violence as a defence scenario and this topic came up with instruction on what to do. She got incredibly angry, because her partner tried to become a police officer for the second time (broke off the training the first time). He never took offence to that, but she did. Still don't quite get why that was.
She probably didn’t want to believe it could happen to her. But unfortunately, abuse can happen to anyone, no matter who they are or how many self defense classes they take.
Probably hit a nerve when you described abuse. Some victims don't like to acknowledge that what's inflicted on them is abuse.
That scenario triggered her = as in triggered her C-PTSD from having been abused, which led her to having an emotional flashback and feel all of the danger of her days of abuse all at once and have disproportionate reaction of one of the 4 F trauma responses because that situation reminded her of that. I also have C-PTSD, so I know exactly what being legitimately triggered is like. Do you know if she is safe now?
@@winxclubstellamusa She is, he never abused her, nor even came close. I don't want to go into details but she, I and some others got pretty close for a while. There were issues in their relationship but it stemmed more from him being a momas boy and not having much of a life outside of work and her.
Both of my parents worked in the criminal justice system. My father was a police officer for many years but later became an internal investigator for the King County Sheriff's Department in Washington state. He could tell you how many officers he had to investigate because of DV. My mother was a probation officer for the same county and had quite a few former officers as probation cases for DV as well. Thankfully my parents never had any of these problems but yeah.
It sort of flipped in my family. Both parents were pigs (yes, they weren't the good ones.) And my mother was the abuser, to both my brother and step dad.
It was a constant thing, even stabbing a dog, which was blamed on "a wild dog" according to their buddies who responded to the call.
My mother hates that I stood up to her and tried to report her, but in the end? Everytime I did, she cried and broke down. She was all bluster, but that damn badge made her immune.
In that single way? I'll never trust any others, but real life taught me quick that they have a bias (literally was pulled over after a guy passed ME illegally, because I was in 'an older car' and didn't belong even though I was working)
Oh and regarding the dog incident..I reported to animal control. They escalated it, and even though my sister witnessed it? Because I called it in, I am the traitor.
Hope you’re staying away from the toxicity that is your mother now
I hope you are in a safe place now, without having to rely on the same authorities that failed you when you were young.
As the child of a police officer, this metaphorically and literally hit home for me. My father was actively abusive towards me and my mother. I felt like I had nowhere to turn. I couldn't call 911 since they all knew my dad. plus my father was our main income, so if he was gone, we were pretty much hopeless. I was finally able to get away a year ago, but my mom is still stuck :(
*Broke:* _He's just a bad apple_
*Woke:* _One bad apple spoils the bunch_
It's just like "pull yourself up by your bootstraps". This country is built on obfuscations and half-truths designed to protect those already in power and diminish those without.
Bespoke: Throw out the whole barrel and start over with pears
@@PhiladelphiaBunnyfac
Start with peaches.
@@tabularasa0606 Start with Dragonfruits. Only the best of the best fruits
@@enotsnavdier6867 wait no bc guava and pineapple are right there bro !
And you wonder why regular every day citizens are scared of police
I went on one date with a cop when I was in my early twenties. The next day, EVERY SINGLE female friend I had called or texted me to tell me the statistics. I ghosted that dude.
i live in Canada and there are similarities. i used to work with police in a former job and while they try to promote mental health, i was told only the child abuse people are mandated to get therapy. drinking is still a common coping mechanism. maybe things have changed over the last 10 years, but that is what i was told at the time by serving police.
Poor canada really tryin to be usa-lite
Hello from a fellow Canuck
What's the old phrase, cops beat, firemen cheat?
I found out a couple of years ago that bigotry was a big problem among firemen as well. It's crazy how bigoted people are attracted to jobs where they're charged with protecting the public (cops, soldiers, firemen, CPS, politicians, doctors, etc.).
Firemen also beat. My cousin's husband is an abuser. He freaks out every time another man even looks at her. When he was a bouncer, he caused a drunk man to be hit by a car/truck and killed because he thought the drunk guy was hitting on my cousin and he kicked him out of the club and then the guy got killed by a car/truck. The drunk guy's mother hates my cousin's husband for that. He checks my cousin's phone all the time to see if she's cheating. He once threatened to leave her out in the desert and let the coyotes eat her crotch. He would throw his kids gaming consoles out of the house whenever they wouldn't get off of it as soon as he said. He burned down his house for the insurance money. He sexually harassed my mom by grabbing his crotch at her. One of his sons said that anyone would have to come and find him if they ever wanted to see him again after he joined the navy. My grandmother didn't like him. She said she didn't like him but didn't know why. Then she found out why; It was because he was abusing my cousin. My grandmother died in 2021 and he came to her hospital room and held her hand and put a prayer cloth on her, which greatly offended and infuriated my poor mother if not my grandmother. My mother wanted to yell 'get your hands off of her!' but didn't. And to top it all off, he created a fake company at the last minute, had the nerve to say he was his wife's "employee" as if he's not the one controlling HER, all so he could get some of my grandmother's (who hated him) money, which he succeeded in doing. Bastard. There's no justice in this world.
@So?
“It's crazy how bigoted people are attracted to jobs where they're charged with protecting the public (cops, soldiers, firemen, CPS, politicians, doctors, etc.).”
My personal theory is that it’s about control. A cop has control over the lives of others just as much as a fireman does.
They get their ego stroked for saving others (or a town, city, state, country, etc. in the case of a politician)/“being an inspiration” while simultaneously being able to play into their power trip. They can have control over groups they don’t like due to their bigotry, but all under the guise of helping those same groups.
@@LadyAstarionAncunin I mean the kind of people that are bigots are often the same folks with a strong desire to have control over people and have fragile egos so it's not surprising
@@LadyAstarionAncunin Unfortunately, a lot of bigots operate under the delusion that they're the ones under attack - a position that naturally would lead someone to want to "protect" the public (but only the "good ones").
All cats are beautiful :)))))
Agree!
18:06 "They are not simply given firearms, they are given something far more dangerous: the benefit of the doubt"
That's important
ALWAYS fight dirty against abusers, especially when they're cops!
so one of my hobbies is customizing clothes, and I have a pink shirt that, among other things, has '40% COPS' written on it in acrylics
i called the police on my father that he tried to kill me + threw boiling oil on my then 5 year old sister [3 degree burns] ,they drank coffe with him and acted like hes the victim cuz I HAD THE AUDACIDY TO CALL THE POLICE ON MY father/owner on the station 2 women called me mentaly ill and a minor = liar and ''its not abuse when its not broken bones multiple times'', when i reported assault in public and phone stolen ,women yelled at me and told me i have an audacidy to accuse a man , there is a reason victims dont report ,when they dont get taken srsly ,and eaven if you report you dont , when i reported at 18+ i was told always ''ur an adult abuse doesent exist ur a narcicist'' i live in a christian catholic country ... i know 1 man who was r'ped as a kid and hes r'pist is in jail but the man now is a r'pist himself and ...hes free , i was r'ped by 3 men multiple times , noone cares , i meet a lot women whos r'pist never got arrested and noone cared about them they got r'ped multiple times and from ages 6+ ,usualy if ur a child you get thrown in a mental asylum BY POLICE if u report r'pe as a minor here and get slut shamed untill u think its your fault ,i constantly hear ''r'pe is rare'' , yea......sure ,its hard to report it cuz stigma + ur scarred etc after trauma+u know noone else got their abuser jailed ,those people will molest and r'ape more people because they are not in jail ....mostly men are r'pists but there are female ones tooand no mather what abuse what gender or sexuality noone cares ,i wish the justice stystem was actualy just and protect people not throw women /children in jail for self defense ,but get abusers and evil people to jail ,iv been a ''slave '' domestic abuse 21 years ,only people who ever cared to help were Muslims and 1 PSYCHOLOGIST
I’m so sorry. I hope you’re in a better place
Keep up the good work. I’ll be sharing this far and wide to combat the rampant copaganda.
It's easy to see how a position of authority and the stability of a government salary can look when women are considering a long-term relationship. If only they knew the risks...
Not saying all cops are that way, but they should at least start looking for red flags long before they start sharing a roof.
I had heard 40% for years (thanks HBomberguy's "Roblox Oof" video for reminding me). Other studies say between 4.8%-40% or closer to 22%. Regardless it's higher than the average population. Going to watch this while I do some chores but I'm sure that number is impacted by the number of people who seek positions with power over people (some being sociopaths) who look for careers in policing. I'm sure some join because they want to be "good guys" but these positions are also of great interest to those who just want control over, or the ability to intimidate others.
This is why we need independent civilian organizations with the power to fire or even indict police officers.
Unfortunately though, protective orders legally don't have to be enforced, despite the fact they 100% should be. This was ruled by SCOTUS in 2005 (Castle Rock v. Gonzales). While it's still a good thing to create a paper trail, additional protection (if it is within in the person's means) is likely necessary.
they call them forty.
forty percent of the city's budget.
forty percent of beaten wives.
forty minutes to enter that one school.
Policing and the military attract a high percentage of people who are too violent to exist in society without the protection these professions offer them.
My mom was a cop for a brief time before I was born. She quit. Confiscated drugs went missing and her superior she saw buying meth from her neighbor. She said fuck that.
She died a few years ago and a bit after she passed I saw a news article mentioning the county she worked in, and one of the drivers crashed his car while high on meth. My grandfather was kicked out of the force for beating too many domestic abusers, despite the fact he went home and beat my aunt, uncle, and grandmother. Her opinion was the best way to deal with abusive cops was to put them 6 feet under where nobody would find em. After she quit she got really into RATM and Body Count, and grilled cops in our shitty town when they would pull her over with her boyfriend who was black. Good cops quit.
Sounds like she was cool. It takes courage to stand up to them when they can and do retaliate.
Whatever the number is, it’s much higher than anybody thinks because for every instance reported, you know there’s another one being covered up
All of em. The police in my town protected my abuser
Not a case of domestic abuse, but I was tazed by a cop after I drank too much at a party and started yelling obscenities. I had to go to the hospital and spend the night with electrodes (I mean they were sticky plastic things with cables) all over my body. Now every time I cross a cop I am reminded of this. I tended to dislike them before, now it's worse. We really need other specialists and just citizens in general to be able to peacefully de-escalate a situation. I could've been fine if I had just had my pills on me or if someone had found them for me. Instead, got tazed. Bolts and burning throughout the body. It doesn't long, but the feeling is horrible! I do not wish it upon even my worst enemy...
Authoritarianism is a curse on human society. Giving authority to someone incapable of handling that power results in destruction. This is why we need a more stringent and humanitarian focus on the selection process and training of police. Failings for kindness are much better failings than failings of monstrosity.
Authority doesn't exist in reality. You cant go outside and trip over an authority. The term exists as a concept, as an abstraction, but rather than other words that symbolize something in reality like "tree" or "water" it has no correlation with something real, it symbolizes just another concept, another abstraction, which is just "the belief that another has a right, or can, tell you what to do, and you are moraly obligated, or have to, listen". You can change the wording around with that but that is the jist. But it's just a virus, utilized by mental programmers, to increase their ability to control, and increase their power.
28% spouses admitted they were abused
40% is the report figure for spouses AND children
And that's the ones that were willing to talk about it
I'm dumbfounded that you're still at only 300k subs, with the consistent quality of your productions. I blame the YT algorithms (double entente intended) for the most part, but it's hard to argue that the state of our culture isn't also a contributing factor to the slow uptake. What do you think?
On topic, though: 1312-ACAB and all that. Most police forces hire exactly these types of abusive personalities, and their poor training only serves to re-enforce these antisocial tendencies. They belong to a tribe with more power and less oversight that asked them to be the way they are; we should net be surprised.
when i was 14 my mom told me never to date a cop bc they all beat women, and told me how our city's police had nearly gone bankrupt just 2 years earlier from sexual assault lawsuits
I spent over a decade in LE. Domestic abuse is quite prevalent, especially if the officer lives in the jurisdiction in which they work.
Maybe if the stress of the job leads to all these problems for police officers, we should perhaps move some of their responsibilities to other people so that they can focus on things that we currently don't have another solution for. Maybe we should take the funding for the police and have some of it go to people who take care of the jobs that don't need someone with a firearm. Maybe we should defund the --
Right?!?
Stress doesn't lead to abuse. Obviously. When does being stressed make you want to beat the innocent?
Brought up a memory of when I was being abused by my father so I left to go to my friend's house for safety, but the cops were called and they manhandled me (teenage girl at the time) into their vehicle and brought me straight back to the abuse. They did not give a shit about what I was telling them.
Thats so terrifying! Im so sorry you experienced that :(
There is nothing that can't be made worse by police involvement.
Hey. Too triggering for me to watch, bit want to boost the video. Important work. Thank you, RC.
Take care of yourself comrade!
Bless, I'm taking it in pieces
All of them.
Pretty sure you're going to save lives with this video. If there's a heaven, I think you've earned your ticket in. Thank you. I hope you keep making stuff.
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln
The only way the 40% self reported number is an over count is if cops are pretending to be abusers when they're not, which in and of itself is a chilling idea.
Imagine: aspirational abusers.
Makes sense, it could be a form of solidarity like "if you want to punish abusers you'd have to punish all of us too and you can't afford it" or something.
But it's way more likely they are just abusers.
@mlorencetti1 it's fortunate that cost means nothing
Not only did this video not get buried but the bell actually went off and informed me! Hopefully that means you're out of the bullshit algorithm miasma.
All police spouses should receive A safety panic button on wrist or put somewhere they can get to
and it should go to a main source out side of department to be seen and documented and be able to make a report that way the officer knows the spouse has somebody on their side in case of an emergency
My local police department has “domestic violence awareness” decals on their cars right now.
They’re aware that they are doing it…
I was arrested by a cop in my city who knew I didn't break any law. After trying to figure out what happened, I pissed off some person, who's friend was the security guard at Walmart and the mistress of a cop. I never met them before so don't know what I did to them for sure. But they had her friend in security call her boyfriend the cop and have him arrest me and my husband. She claimed I was stealing from Walmart.
I of course hadn't stolen anything, so they changed it to trespassing, in a public store, that was open 24/7. The cops were very abusive to us. Walmart charged us thousands, and the cops, court and the city all charged us thousands more. It was over eight thousand in fines by the end of it. I had to take out tons of loans to cover it and will likely be in debt for the rest of my life and I'll never even know why really.
I tried to tell some lawyers and the judge, but no one cared. You don't get justice when it's the cops who abuse you. Then my husband and I were on what our local cops called "the shit list" for almost a year after that. Where they would come our work places to harass us, and to our homes where they pointed guns at us for nothing. Just because we had pissed off one of their girlfriend's friends.
When Walmart came to the city, it ended up shutting down every other store, so because I'm banned from all Walmarts for life, I now have to buy anything I need online as well. I can't even afford to move away because of how much debt I am under.
After getting arrested in the middle of a store for just grocery shopping, and paraded around the front with all the customers at the checkouts booing, laughing and shouting horrible things at us. After the debt and abuse and no justice, I will never feel safe again.
What state & city did these things happen to you??
Show this to every Blue Lives Matter supporter
Like they'd listen
They like the idea of police harming their spouses and children
If you or someone else is having a mental health issue and don't know what to do other than call your number for the police, tell them you want an ambulance, not the murderous Michelin men.
That won't help in some jurisdictions because they have a policy of sending a cop car ahead of or along with the ambulance.
This varies from culture to culture. Here in Norway the police is generally trusted, and the majority of the work they do is calming people down and making sure they are alright. They are tend to be more conservative (conservative in Norway is probably far-left in the US). They appear empathic, safe and pro-social. They have WAY longer training than the american ones, and they do not carry gun except in exceptional situations. The fact that they don't carry guns most of the time, insentivices them to solve conflicts peacefully.
Swede. So close enough.
Our difference in education is important to empathize. They're university degrees, requiring several semesters worth of theory including in social sciences and social care and months of job training. Treating policework as something that requires expertise and specialized skill sets goes a long way to fostering a better culture and relationship with the public.
And seeing the debate, both across the American Left and Right, it feels like they don't see the capabilities and social good a well-supported police/justice system could bring. I find the Left wanting to shift responsibilities onto other social workers, like being the first point of contact in mental health and self-harm crisis, much less objectionable, but am nonetheless sad at the lost hope and insularity of their debate.
Given how abusers think and operate, it is unfortunate to recognize that a questionnaire asking about domestic abuse mailed to the home almost certainly resulted in victims being blamed for the questionnaire and suffering further abuse.
That's some pretty awful methodology on their part, dang.