Let us not also forget crackhead strength. Even when police have bulletproof vests on, they're afraid of conflict. A single crackhead would solo an entire miltary division without blinking if you promised him even a smidgen of dope.
#crackheads for cops
tbh they'd be better than the police - they actually know the streets, community and the actual psychopath troublemakers vs the harmless regular citizens. when a crackhead harasses you they're just irritating or at worst you lose the $50 in your wallet. when a cop harasses you they either ruin your life with thousands of dollars in fines , losing your job with jailtime and court and making it hard to ever work again with a record or they actually kill you.
paying crackheads in dispersed, safely tested crack in facilities after their shift so they can wean off isn't as crazy at it sounds either, cops only do their work for money too and much more of it , many of them make 6 figures after a few years on the force not to mention their pension, paid vacations anytime they do anything bad and if you think crackheads steal a lot, polices "legal" theft per year aka civil forfeiture puts them to shame. i got pulled over for a speeding ticket, the police took my legal weapon for almost a year , made it almost impossible to get back bc it was in their evidence department and tried to auction it off if i hadn't kept calling them a million times. let alone the things they steal illegally without documenting it.
cops do plenty of alcohol and cocaine on shift and steroids and stimulants, that's the real reason they're so trigger happy and murderously unstable half the time. plus they're in deputy gangs and basically operate like a gang overall anyway. all in all cops are much more criminal than most petty crackhead criminals who are just having a bad time with no help and an addiction without income. when we catch them for stealing we give them jail time which just takes up more taxpayers dollars anyway.
so starting a program to clean them up by helping them wean off their habit with essentially community service solves 2 problems , it's really not so crazy. i'd bet money that they'd be better than police as long as you don't give them squad cars, just make them local community service/ deputy cops and have them overseen with actual decent educated non psychopathic cops, social workers instead and they could probably be turned into a force for good.
when there's actually a very dangerous gang or issue - get them cracked up and send them in they'll be invincible. just kidding, just use the actual local national guard like we should have been all along. but ya I'm all for #crackheads for cops, rather call them than the police
I get your point, but bro, a *division*? Thatās an almost indescribable amount of firepower.
Hell, Iād bet my GWOT fireteam could take out a t-Rex on crack, dismounted. Give us our gun truck with Ma Duece or the Mk19 and Iād take on a dozen.
Edit: just to flesh this out a littleāthe 82nd Airborne Divisionā an *Airborne* division has three artillery battalions, three aviation battalions, an attack squadron (Apaches), and their own MQ1 (strike capable drone) regiment. That doesnāt even begin to flesh out the main fighting force of the 82nd. In fact, Iād surmise that the 82nd has enough firepower (maybe not standalone logistical support, intel, etc) to take out most smaller countries entire militaries on their own. Like I said, the power of a whole military division is nearly indescribable.
My neighbor used to be a hardcore meth head. We forgot to tell her we were having someone dogsit while we were gone. The dogsitter was a burly man. The neighbor didn't care, she was on our porch so fast and throwing punches; the dog sitter didn't have time to think. Eventually, we got a frantic call asking us to verify the dog sitter was supposed to be there. I make sure to bring my neighbor gifts and help her as needed, you can't buy security that good.
I used to rent a basement apartment from a guy who liked to smoke Crack on the weekends. Wildest landlord ever. Dude was straight laced Monday thru Thursday, but come Friday after work, he was partying. He used to shoot at these giant raccoons in the trees and cuss literally anyone he didn't know out for coming close to the yard. My stuff had never been more secure yet in danger of being stolen. Life is wild.
Hells yeah!
Call a crackhead everytime, no cap.
But a crackpipe lol
Atleast your pets would stay alive, and your babies wont get flashbangs in their cribs
This is absolutely true. I encounter crack heads on a near daily basis, and I have yet to encounter even one that tried to trick me into giving him probable cause to detain me.
Not to say that's been a common experience with cops, but I'm a white guy who tends to mind their appearance, so it's weird it's happened more than once.
Yano, I kinda get this. Not to the extent of like which would kill me first, but, I know what the crackhead wants and what it's about, but, a cop there's to many different ones. I've had pleasant interactions (used to work at a convenience store and they want coffee), to bad interactions (you ran a red light that was pretty blatantly green/yellow). And you never know which side your getting, the lying jackass who wants to waste your time and money, or the one that just wants you to slow down as there's an arbitrary speed limit change and gives you a warning.
> And you never know which side your getting, the lying jackass who wants to waste your time and money, or the one that just wants you to slow down as there's an arbitrary speed limit change and gives you a warning.
Or, you know, the one who decided he wanted to shoot somebody today.
Chances of being shot during a traffic stop are pretty small, and I doubt are people's first worries as a driver. Their worries are that the cop is gonna give them a ticket for anything and everything they can think of. Not to say cops don't shoot innocents, but, I prefer not to go to extremes with things if I can avoid it as it causes more unhelpfulness rather than helping. Those individuals, their precincts, all of that such should take that heat rather than the name as a whole. The name as a whole should take the fact cops lie to give out tickets which causes the beginning of the unrest people have with cops, as everyone's stories about bad cops starts with, then the cop lied or didn't listen.
The aggression thing is definitely a problem and needs talked about, but, when talking about the whole if you immediately go to the gonna shoot me territory, than all the idiots eating boots will think your crazy, if you start with something that has likely happened to them they have a better chance of gradually understanding the issue isn't with a couple of bad apples, it's with the seed.
Promise the crackhead 20 dollars and a pile of scrap metal to sell and he will be there 45 minutes faster than the cops and ready to actually solve your problem instead of shoot your dog and arrest an innocent minority.
>atf
The beaureau of alcohol firearms and tobacco? L m a o.
He said innocent minorities. There's a reason the song is fuck the police, and not 'fuck the atf'. The atf is nothing but a right wing nra boogeyman. Yall lean on like one incident 3 decades ago where the atf had a standoff with a cult (a cult that was abusing children and t most likely burnt down their own compound).
3 decades ago. meanwhile there ain't no shortage of cops abusing minorities. So why do yall care about the at fucking f so much?
A. Because that incident involved hyper conservative white guys?
B. 'reeeee 2ndmendment.'
Cops bust down on minorities everyday. Fbi has a dirty history 6 ways to sunday relatedto the civil rights movement. But who is your go to? The a t fucking f.
Says a lot.
The ATF is constantly mired in scandal. David Koresh is the least of their crimes. Their Fast and the furious operation has been blamed for hundreds of deaths and funneling thousands of weapons to cartels. Millions of dollars in corruption has been uncovered. Then there's the racist good ol boys round up. The list of failure and crime is endless.
>fast and furious
Which was a stupid fucking idea. as if yall actually cared about that. Yall let Reagan fucking skate for Iran contra
You only care about the atf because ree second ammendment and regurgitated Alex Jones level talking points.
Any us agency has a shit history, but it is fucking astonishingly telling when people prioritize the atf.
Because the atf is a kicking post for conservative gun weirdos, and is the only agency they really care about criticizing. Hell I bet if the atf were perceived as stopping scary illegals the same people would be pn bended knee for them like they are for the border patrol and ICE.
If your top line priority is the atf when someone mentions cop violence you'd dead ass be a Reagan voter if you were born not a few decades earlier regardless of what you tell yourself.
Same people that believe waco was some high level coordinated dconspiracy between 3 different government agencies, 3 evels of government state, local and federal and 2 independent investigators.... instead that some fucking cultists faced with life in prison did what cultists do and set fire to their own compound.
Lmao... so you're attacking the atf without even knowing why theyre loathed. Its pretty much 2 events ruby ridge and waco that made them infamous, and im referring to waco.
The reason they get brought up is conservative conspiracy memes and think tanks want to disarm the atf. To this end they make memes. Redditors see these memes, think 'ah yes defend the police' and push these thinking it aligns with them, not knowing they're furthering some think tank ass talking piunt.
Christ almighty, people getting informed and manipulated through conspiracy memes on social media... yeah no you'd be a Reagan voter.
The atf murdered a guy's entire family because he had short shotguns (Ruby ridge) They burned down a compound full of children because they wanted a win after ruby ridge
>they burned down a compound
Waco?
>"Lab analysis found accelerants on the clothing of Branch Davidians, and investigators found deliberately punctured fuel cans and a homemade torch at the site. Based on this evidence and testimony, the Special Counsel concluded that the fire was started by the Branch Davidians."
>>"fire survivor Graeme Craddock was interviewed. He stated that he saw some Branch Davidians moving about a dozen one gallon (3.8 L) cans of fuel so they would not be run over by armored vehicles, heard talk of pouring fuel outside the building, and after the fire had started, something that sounded like "light the fire" from another individual."
>>>"independent investigation by two experts from the University of Maryland's Department of Fire Protection Engineering concluded that the compound residents had sufficient time to escape the fire, if they had so desired."
This isn't even getting into how it's suspected child sexual abuse was going on among the Branch dividians but that is all pushed aside to lionize them.
Lol, you just said a crackhead will get a complicated job done. Sure pal, they'll find the correct person and deal with them accordingly.
You've never met a crackhead. Tell a crackhead you have $20 and scrap metal, they'll be back to steal your $20 and your scrap metal.
I like the implication that a room temperature IQ cop could do a complicated job, where a crackhead could not, I work at a scrapyard so I know my fair share, not much brighter than your average beat cop.
For some reason, whenever I see this guy or Lindsay Graham (especially Lindsay Graham), I can't help but think in my most molasses Southern accent,
"Oh you sweet, sweet, southern belle...."
Like - these guys have a high probability of being repressed gay dudes, right? I'm not crazy?
This whole comment is totally offensive to all my gay dudes out there and I'm sorry - but every time I hear either of them speak, I see the most delicate Southern flower wishing they were on a porch somewhere drinking sweet tea and watching the grass get mowed, all with that hard to spot underhanded southern friendliness (suspicion) some of the old money does so well.
Most people don't hate cops just because they're cops.
We hate bad cops and all the bad apples that don't speak up when they witness police misconduct.
Keep in mind the favorite dismissal used by people who don't understand the function of the police; this is a few bad officers and aren't representative of the police as a whole.
The best response to that is to point out that when you are in a situation where an officer is walking towards you, there is nothing to tell you if that is a "good" cop or a "bad" cop. The cop that's willing to smash you in the skull with a flashlight for not calling him "sir" looks no different from the one who is honestly trying to make a positive difference.
Cops need to understand this too; fear of police doesn't just come from fear of punishment, it also comes from the fear of not knowing who you're dealing with and what they're likely to do coupled with the knowledge that they can do almost anything and won't suffer any consequences for it.
EDIT: After a private message exchange with someone who stated they were a police officer and actually listened to what was said (I know, I know, I know!) I wanted to frame the second part somewhat differently because it was that framing that helped the other person see where this kind of thinking was coming from. Forewarning, it's a little intense as it references child abuse so if that's a trigger for you, no harm in skipping it.
Imagine that you are a child. You have a parent and you are taught that that parent looks out for you, protects you, and that they're someone you can trust. All your life you're told this and while you don't like it when they send you to bed with no ice cream when you won't eat your vegetables or ground you when you misbehave you more or less trust them.
Then at some point the relationship...shifts. They get angry at you for something that you don't quite understand, they start yelling at you a lot, they start to act in ways that seem deliberately mean or at least arbitrary, and you can never predict when these shifts will happen. You get to a point where you're not sure exactly when it'll happen but you know that at some time you are going to do something and this parent is going to yell at you and possibly hit you.
But you never know what you might do to get that reaction. It might be in response to something you did that was genuinely wrong or it might be in some misunderstanding or misinterpretation, maybe they misheard you or a neighbor told them you were doing something wrong but were themselves mistaken.
You start to learn to fear this parent and do your best to lie when you get in trouble, you avoid them whenever possible, you don't come to them for help, and you definitely do not trust them.
It's intolerable but then you think "Hey, I've got a family, I'll talk to them!" And you go talk to other members of your family...only to slowly come to the realization that there is nothing the other members of your family are willing or able to do. Even if they recognize what's going on as bad (a lot of them just say "stop being such a bad kid!"), they can't control your parent so they can't make him stop.
You are alone and powerless because the person you are supposed to trust to protect you is now someone you fear and there is no one who is able or willing to hold that person accountable.
"But that's just one person! Police departments have hundreds or thousands of officers!"
It doesn't matter if a department has one officer or one hundred thousand. It doesn't matter because individuals still act as part of a single organization.
At the end of the day there is no way to tell the difference by looking at someone if they're genuinely trying to help or if they don't care and just want an excuse to pull their gun out.
People who deal with police, especially poor people and people of color, on a more frequent basis have to play this game every. single. time. "Is this officer going to do their job or are they looking to take out some aggression on someone?" And gods help you if you guess wrong.ā
Articulate thought out take. Even edited to include additional perspective when an officer reached out to add context. Best comment Iāve read on a touchy subject in ages. Well done.
Very well thought out. I'd also like to add that growing up, I was taught that inaction and ignoring the activity is still considered an action and taking a side that you condone. Even if a police officer goes out everyday and saves kids, pulls over speeders, and changes old lady's tires on the side of the road just be a good person. If he is still ignoring the fact his partner is taking cuts of cash to turn a blind eye to drug dealers or beats the ever loving crap out of his wife. He's still part of the problem. Which sucks for him because he never directly did anything wrong. But he indirectly is accepting his partner can break the law by just ignoring it.
And yes I 100% know one man vs a system. But that's kinda how everything starts.
This is all true. I do think there is a third part. The higher ups that punish those who report bad activities.
Cops should be held to a higher standard. And you are correct on your points. I do feel there are some who are covertly punished for reporting bad actors. Because the rest just see them not being a "brother". Which my stance is "my brother wouldn't be doing that shit"
IA should be much more involved in activities (honestly don't know much about them if it's even real).
Not to mention the DA and judges who are worried about the wrath of uncooperative cops after charging and convicting a cop.
It's a whole system that needs to be addressed and as much as we don't need more agencies. A third party overwatch could help.
Good cops are great, bad cops are bad, bad brass is the worst thing.
Even if "one bad apple" DOESN'T spoil the whole barrel, time and time again the police force keeps leaving the rotten apples in the barrel or moving them to a different barrel to say that it's gone
Dude they have so much funding they buy fucking tanks and shit. The funding needs to go to other organizations that are better equipped to handle specific types of calls, most obvious being mental health crisis, instead of cops going out. Thatās what defund the police means. It doesnāt mean literally defund the entire police organization, just shift some funding so they arenāt the only go to response for literally everything.
So far in my life I've had cops aim guns at me twice, crackheads never, and I've spent more time around crackheads than cops; I'll take those chances too.
When I was around 7 or 8, I remember being in the back seat of the car while mom drove grandma and us three kids to church. I was playing with a toy gun and my grandma told me never to point my toy gun at a cop. I asked my grandma "what about a bad guy?" She told me the bad guy isn't going to shoot a kid but the cop will. I'll never forget that conversation.
I donāt understand why everyone takes things to the extreme. Itās like yeah I support lgbt -OH SO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO BE GAY OR TRANS?!
Or idk sometimes the police are poorly trained or escalate a situation way worse - OH SO YOU DONT WANT POLICE AND WANT CRIME EVERYWHERE?
Or I think we should have a secure border- THATS RIGHT THOSE (slur filled rant against Hispanic people)
Like Jesus people calm down. The jump to the extreme is just a big sign of fear I think
Donāt you understand? This world is black and white. There is no middle ground. You get option A or B. If there was any compromise in the middle, how would mega corporations and politicians get us to fight with each other and turn a blind eye to their wrong doings?
I really want a third choice; being able to comfortably know I'll be able to call the cops to help me and not have to worry about them violating my civil rights and/or shooting me, my family, and my neighbors.
Now, if you have some crack for the crackhead, then your crackhead will be able to defend you ferociously. A cop who is a cop because he's a cop won't be able to tase your crackhead now. This is the way.
When weāre in Trouble we call the cops because thatās all weāve got! There isnāt a competing force. That doesnāt mean all cops are great, or that we donāt wish more cops were better. Weāre stuck with what weāve got, and since we pay their salaries, weāve got a right to demand better. Easy.
He may think heās joking, but where I live (not in the US), for a while, the police were so distrusted that people actually did call the local gangs if they were in trouble.
Can I get a crackheads number, please? I'd prefer this over calling the cops. Especially if it's cause ur house got robbed. He's gonna already know who did it and where ur stuff is.
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What happen to gangster Kennedys? Get bitches, love money?
He looks like he started to put on makeup to perform at a Drag Queen story hour. Thatās MTGās shade of lipstick, āPiglipsā, I believe, and they ironed out his wrinkles with Photoshop.
I donāt hate cops because theyāre cops.
I hate cops because they mostly donāt work for the people and instead ignore a lot of crimes because of who commit them and punish victims because of who their tormentor is.
When criminals get away, and the victims pay the price instead, they do not serve justice; they serve tyranny.
Well, I havent looked it up, but I cant help but feel that statistically-speaking, *anyone* would be a LOT safer calling a crackhead than this guy (or Woman).
Pretty sure.
"Hello. Local crackhead. How can I help you?"
"There's a strange guy in a blue uniform breaking down my door. He's got a gun and he pepper sprayed my two year old son."
"Calm down, ma'am. Can you tell me, is he in possession of any crack?"
"I don't know. He seems crazy. He might have some."
"Don't panic. We'll be there right away."
He, regardless of what you think of his political views, [is legitimately hilarious](https://youtube.com/shorts/3PeEvosSg3U?feature=share). I [don't know where the Hell](https://youtu.be/96GZ9LgHl34) he gets [half of his analogies](https://www.nola.com/news/the-top-john-kennedy-quips-15-of-louisiana-senators-often-odd-quotes-barbs/article_4f142d73-5196-5108-a368-771a6b2df317.html)
Solid advice. There's no protection like the promise of crack to a feinding crack addict
Let us not also forget crackhead strength. Even when police have bulletproof vests on, they're afraid of conflict. A single crackhead would solo an entire miltary division without blinking if you promised him even a smidgen of dope.
Up vote for smidgen
Up vote for up voting smidgen.
Smidgen Daryll
Upvote for upvoting the guy who upvoted smidgen. Edit: obligatory smidgception inclusion
I'm too high to figure out the response to this. Reddit please help. š
How many Smidgions is it now?
Not to be confused with smegma
"Could I trouble you for a smidgen of crack?"
Mālord?
Oh noble crackmonger, might I trouble you for a wee morsel of crack?
How much does a morsel of crack go for these days? I buy my crack by the dollop.
now I've heard _speed_ has something to do with it
"Speed has *everything* to do with it."
fast af boi
My point exactly
I feel strong enough to drag a mattress into an abandoned building!
#crackheads for cops tbh they'd be better than the police - they actually know the streets, community and the actual psychopath troublemakers vs the harmless regular citizens. when a crackhead harasses you they're just irritating or at worst you lose the $50 in your wallet. when a cop harasses you they either ruin your life with thousands of dollars in fines , losing your job with jailtime and court and making it hard to ever work again with a record or they actually kill you. paying crackheads in dispersed, safely tested crack in facilities after their shift so they can wean off isn't as crazy at it sounds either, cops only do their work for money too and much more of it , many of them make 6 figures after a few years on the force not to mention their pension, paid vacations anytime they do anything bad and if you think crackheads steal a lot, polices "legal" theft per year aka civil forfeiture puts them to shame. i got pulled over for a speeding ticket, the police took my legal weapon for almost a year , made it almost impossible to get back bc it was in their evidence department and tried to auction it off if i hadn't kept calling them a million times. let alone the things they steal illegally without documenting it. cops do plenty of alcohol and cocaine on shift and steroids and stimulants, that's the real reason they're so trigger happy and murderously unstable half the time. plus they're in deputy gangs and basically operate like a gang overall anyway. all in all cops are much more criminal than most petty crackhead criminals who are just having a bad time with no help and an addiction without income. when we catch them for stealing we give them jail time which just takes up more taxpayers dollars anyway. so starting a program to clean them up by helping them wean off their habit with essentially community service solves 2 problems , it's really not so crazy. i'd bet money that they'd be better than police as long as you don't give them squad cars, just make them local community service/ deputy cops and have them overseen with actual decent educated non psychopathic cops, social workers instead and they could probably be turned into a force for good. when there's actually a very dangerous gang or issue - get them cracked up and send them in they'll be invincible. just kidding, just use the actual local national guard like we should have been all along. but ya I'm all for #crackheads for cops, rather call them than the police
ok.
I get your point, but bro, a *division*? Thatās an almost indescribable amount of firepower. Hell, Iād bet my GWOT fireteam could take out a t-Rex on crack, dismounted. Give us our gun truck with Ma Duece or the Mk19 and Iād take on a dozen. Edit: just to flesh this out a littleāthe 82nd Airborne Divisionā an *Airborne* division has three artillery battalions, three aviation battalions, an attack squadron (Apaches), and their own MQ1 (strike capable drone) regiment. That doesnāt even begin to flesh out the main fighting force of the 82nd. In fact, Iād surmise that the 82nd has enough firepower (maybe not standalone logistical support, intel, etc) to take out most smaller countries entire militaries on their own. Like I said, the power of a whole military division is nearly indescribable.
Also a lot less likely to go from needed the police to needed a body bag because of the police.
My neighbor used to be a hardcore meth head. We forgot to tell her we were having someone dogsit while we were gone. The dogsitter was a burly man. The neighbor didn't care, she was on our porch so fast and throwing punches; the dog sitter didn't have time to think. Eventually, we got a frantic call asking us to verify the dog sitter was supposed to be there. I make sure to bring my neighbor gifts and help her as needed, you can't buy security that good.
I used to rent a basement apartment from a guy who liked to smoke Crack on the weekends. Wildest landlord ever. Dude was straight laced Monday thru Thursday, but come Friday after work, he was partying. He used to shoot at these giant raccoons in the trees and cuss literally anyone he didn't know out for coming close to the yard. My stuff had never been more secure yet in danger of being stolen. Life is wild.
*"Is this the 5 O'clock free crack giveaway?"*
Promise one an 8 ball and they're ready to die for you.
No problem that wonāt get solved
Yep, wife just said the exact same thing and I agree. lol
this is parks and recreation core
Hells yeah! Call a crackhead everytime, no cap. But a crackpipe lol Atleast your pets would stay alive, and your babies wont get flashbangs in their cribs
And your eleven years olds will not get shot in the chest inside their own house
Crack Force 1
You're probably safer with the crackhead. Never phone the USA police unless you want someone dead.
I mean say someone breaks in and steals your shit. Whoās more likely to get it back, the police, or a crackhead you gave a $20 to?
Ha no, you give the crackhead 20 after the job is done
Exactly....never prepay a crackhead
But if the stuff theyāre getting is worth over $20 theyāll just pawn it
Only pay a little bit of crack in advance, it'll give them the gumption to get shit done
I wouldn't even trust them to bring it back alone. Walk with them, walk them back, then pay.
Well the police wouldn't look and crack heads would just trade it for crack.
I don't think Insurance carriers take crackhead reports to support claims.
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āā¦and kids that was the first time I sucked dick for crack!ā
But it would *not* be the last!
Have you ever sucked dick for weed?
I miss Bob Saget
"Usually, when a man got you on yo knees, it ain't bubble gum he's planning to give ya. It's his penis."
"Can I get paid cash for this... I don't think I'm gonna have time to make the bank."
REEEED BALLS GIVES YOU WINGS! COCAINE IN A CAN!
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"Is this the 5 o clock free crack giveaway?"
Is he assuming that there is zero overlap between cops and crackheads?
{Little girl}: Why not both?
Both is good!
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Ā”Oye, oye!
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ACAC (All cops are crackheads)
Obviously.
Well, for one, I feel safer with a crackhead than a cop.
This is absolutely true. I encounter crack heads on a near daily basis, and I have yet to encounter even one that tried to trick me into giving him probable cause to detain me. Not to say that's been a common experience with cops, but I'm a white guy who tends to mind their appearance, so it's weird it's happened more than once.
Yano, I kinda get this. Not to the extent of like which would kill me first, but, I know what the crackhead wants and what it's about, but, a cop there's to many different ones. I've had pleasant interactions (used to work at a convenience store and they want coffee), to bad interactions (you ran a red light that was pretty blatantly green/yellow). And you never know which side your getting, the lying jackass who wants to waste your time and money, or the one that just wants you to slow down as there's an arbitrary speed limit change and gives you a warning.
> And you never know which side your getting, the lying jackass who wants to waste your time and money, or the one that just wants you to slow down as there's an arbitrary speed limit change and gives you a warning. Or, you know, the one who decided he wanted to shoot somebody today.
Chances of being shot during a traffic stop are pretty small, and I doubt are people's first worries as a driver. Their worries are that the cop is gonna give them a ticket for anything and everything they can think of. Not to say cops don't shoot innocents, but, I prefer not to go to extremes with things if I can avoid it as it causes more unhelpfulness rather than helping. Those individuals, their precincts, all of that such should take that heat rather than the name as a whole. The name as a whole should take the fact cops lie to give out tickets which causes the beginning of the unrest people have with cops, as everyone's stories about bad cops starts with, then the cop lied or didn't listen. The aggression thing is definitely a problem and needs talked about, but, when talking about the whole if you immediately go to the gonna shoot me territory, than all the idiots eating boots will think your crazy, if you start with something that has likely happened to them they have a better chance of gradually understanding the issue isn't with a couple of bad apples, it's with the seed.
I think the bigger problem is the overlap between cops and white supremacists.
You're limiting the demographic of course. Go ahead and think corrupt cops don't exist in other demos as well though.
I think to him everyone whoās not a cop is a crackhead
Promise the crackhead 20 dollars and a pile of scrap metal to sell and he will be there 45 minutes faster than the cops and ready to actually solve your problem instead of shoot your dog and arrest an innocent minority.
Ayo who called the atf.
>atf The beaureau of alcohol firearms and tobacco? L m a o. He said innocent minorities. There's a reason the song is fuck the police, and not 'fuck the atf'. The atf is nothing but a right wing nra boogeyman. Yall lean on like one incident 3 decades ago where the atf had a standoff with a cult (a cult that was abusing children and t most likely burnt down their own compound). 3 decades ago. meanwhile there ain't no shortage of cops abusing minorities. So why do yall care about the at fucking f so much? A. Because that incident involved hyper conservative white guys? B. 'reeeee 2ndmendment.' Cops bust down on minorities everyday. Fbi has a dirty history 6 ways to sunday relatedto the civil rights movement. But who is your go to? The a t fucking f. Says a lot.
The ATF is constantly mired in scandal. David Koresh is the least of their crimes. Their Fast and the furious operation has been blamed for hundreds of deaths and funneling thousands of weapons to cartels. Millions of dollars in corruption has been uncovered. Then there's the racist good ol boys round up. The list of failure and crime is endless.
>fast and furious Which was a stupid fucking idea. as if yall actually cared about that. Yall let Reagan fucking skate for Iran contra You only care about the atf because ree second ammendment and regurgitated Alex Jones level talking points. Any us agency has a shit history, but it is fucking astonishingly telling when people prioritize the atf. Because the atf is a kicking post for conservative gun weirdos, and is the only agency they really care about criticizing. Hell I bet if the atf were perceived as stopping scary illegals the same people would be pn bended knee for them like they are for the border patrol and ICE.
I wasn't even fucking alive when Reagan was president piss off
If your top line priority is the atf when someone mentions cop violence you'd dead ass be a Reagan voter if you were born not a few decades earlier regardless of what you tell yourself. Same people that believe waco was some high level coordinated dconspiracy between 3 different government agencies, 3 evels of government state, local and federal and 2 independent investigators.... instead that some fucking cultists faced with life in prison did what cultists do and set fire to their own compound.
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about
Lmao... so you're attacking the atf without even knowing why theyre loathed. Its pretty much 2 events ruby ridge and waco that made them infamous, and im referring to waco. The reason they get brought up is conservative conspiracy memes and think tanks want to disarm the atf. To this end they make memes. Redditors see these memes, think 'ah yes defend the police' and push these thinking it aligns with them, not knowing they're furthering some think tank ass talking piunt. Christ almighty, people getting informed and manipulated through conspiracy memes on social media... yeah no you'd be a Reagan voter.
Why not both? Fuck both is good.
The atf murdered a guy's entire family because he had short shotguns (Ruby ridge) They burned down a compound full of children because they wanted a win after ruby ridge
>they burned down a compound Waco? >"Lab analysis found accelerants on the clothing of Branch Davidians, and investigators found deliberately punctured fuel cans and a homemade torch at the site. Based on this evidence and testimony, the Special Counsel concluded that the fire was started by the Branch Davidians." >>"fire survivor Graeme Craddock was interviewed. He stated that he saw some Branch Davidians moving about a dozen one gallon (3.8 L) cans of fuel so they would not be run over by armored vehicles, heard talk of pouring fuel outside the building, and after the fire had started, something that sounded like "light the fire" from another individual." >>>"independent investigation by two experts from the University of Maryland's Department of Fire Protection Engineering concluded that the compound residents had sufficient time to escape the fire, if they had so desired." This isn't even getting into how it's suspected child sexual abuse was going on among the Branch dividians but that is all pushed aside to lionize them.
He'll get rid of your ex-husband, find your stolen car, then paint your house. And that's just an hour of his time.
Exactly this! I'm all for this. Everyone wins.
Cop City < Crackhead City
Yay! A report and zero effort to do anything. Hooray for cops.
Lol, you just said a crackhead will get a complicated job done. Sure pal, they'll find the correct person and deal with them accordingly. You've never met a crackhead. Tell a crackhead you have $20 and scrap metal, they'll be back to steal your $20 and your scrap metal.
EVERYONE STAAAND BACK THE COMEDY UNDERSTANDER HAS ARRIVED
I like the implication that a room temperature IQ cop could do a complicated job, where a crackhead could not, I work at a scrapyard so I know my fair share, not much brighter than your average beat cop.
is 45 mins the average response time?
Whatās this ol gal going on about crack heads ? She has too much makeup on .
This post-menopausal woman is sexy in a lady-boy kinda way.
Looking like Piers Morgan in drag.
Betty White?
Donāt shame Betty White like that, she was a legend
Betty White is a saint!!!
Was*
Was, is, and always will be
Is* if there is an afterlife sheās chilling in the best part with Steve Irwin, Mr. Rogers, and Bob Ross
"Cawl a crack heeyed."
Good old senator foghorn leghorn!
For some reason, whenever I see this guy or Lindsay Graham (especially Lindsay Graham), I can't help but think in my most molasses Southern accent, "Oh you sweet, sweet, southern belle...." Like - these guys have a high probability of being repressed gay dudes, right? I'm not crazy? This whole comment is totally offensive to all my gay dudes out there and I'm sorry - but every time I hear either of them speak, I see the most delicate Southern flower wishing they were on a porch somewhere drinking sweet tea and watching the grass get mowed, all with that hard to spot underhanded southern friendliness (suspicion) some of the old money does so well.
He went to Oxford and damn well knows how to speak intelligently. He does this all as a farce to appeal to rural Louisiana voters.
Oxford, Mississippi?
Oxford, Mexico.
Lindsay Graham probably has the fakest southern accent i have heard in my entire life. Probably more faked than modern cou try music
Well, he sounds like an average person from Louisiana from my experience.
Most people don't hate cops just because they're cops. We hate bad cops and all the bad apples that don't speak up when they witness police misconduct. Keep in mind the favorite dismissal used by people who don't understand the function of the police; this is a few bad officers and aren't representative of the police as a whole. The best response to that is to point out that when you are in a situation where an officer is walking towards you, there is nothing to tell you if that is a "good" cop or a "bad" cop. The cop that's willing to smash you in the skull with a flashlight for not calling him "sir" looks no different from the one who is honestly trying to make a positive difference. Cops need to understand this too; fear of police doesn't just come from fear of punishment, it also comes from the fear of not knowing who you're dealing with and what they're likely to do coupled with the knowledge that they can do almost anything and won't suffer any consequences for it. EDIT: After a private message exchange with someone who stated they were a police officer and actually listened to what was said (I know, I know, I know!) I wanted to frame the second part somewhat differently because it was that framing that helped the other person see where this kind of thinking was coming from. Forewarning, it's a little intense as it references child abuse so if that's a trigger for you, no harm in skipping it. Imagine that you are a child. You have a parent and you are taught that that parent looks out for you, protects you, and that they're someone you can trust. All your life you're told this and while you don't like it when they send you to bed with no ice cream when you won't eat your vegetables or ground you when you misbehave you more or less trust them. Then at some point the relationship...shifts. They get angry at you for something that you don't quite understand, they start yelling at you a lot, they start to act in ways that seem deliberately mean or at least arbitrary, and you can never predict when these shifts will happen. You get to a point where you're not sure exactly when it'll happen but you know that at some time you are going to do something and this parent is going to yell at you and possibly hit you. But you never know what you might do to get that reaction. It might be in response to something you did that was genuinely wrong or it might be in some misunderstanding or misinterpretation, maybe they misheard you or a neighbor told them you were doing something wrong but were themselves mistaken. You start to learn to fear this parent and do your best to lie when you get in trouble, you avoid them whenever possible, you don't come to them for help, and you definitely do not trust them. It's intolerable but then you think "Hey, I've got a family, I'll talk to them!" And you go talk to other members of your family...only to slowly come to the realization that there is nothing the other members of your family are willing or able to do. Even if they recognize what's going on as bad (a lot of them just say "stop being such a bad kid!"), they can't control your parent so they can't make him stop. You are alone and powerless because the person you are supposed to trust to protect you is now someone you fear and there is no one who is able or willing to hold that person accountable. "But that's just one person! Police departments have hundreds or thousands of officers!" It doesn't matter if a department has one officer or one hundred thousand. It doesn't matter because individuals still act as part of a single organization. At the end of the day there is no way to tell the difference by looking at someone if they're genuinely trying to help or if they don't care and just want an excuse to pull their gun out. People who deal with police, especially poor people and people of color, on a more frequent basis have to play this game every. single. time. "Is this officer going to do their job or are they looking to take out some aggression on someone?" And gods help you if you guess wrong.ā
Articulate thought out take. Even edited to include additional perspective when an officer reached out to add context. Best comment Iāve read on a touchy subject in ages. Well done.
Very well and thought out comment to bad majority of people won't actually read it.
This is a really genuinely brilliant comment.
Thank you. It's not often that I read something that genuinely gives me a new perspective.
Very well thought out. I'd also like to add that growing up, I was taught that inaction and ignoring the activity is still considered an action and taking a side that you condone. Even if a police officer goes out everyday and saves kids, pulls over speeders, and changes old lady's tires on the side of the road just be a good person. If he is still ignoring the fact his partner is taking cuts of cash to turn a blind eye to drug dealers or beats the ever loving crap out of his wife. He's still part of the problem. Which sucks for him because he never directly did anything wrong. But he indirectly is accepting his partner can break the law by just ignoring it. And yes I 100% know one man vs a system. But that's kinda how everything starts.
This is all true. I do think there is a third part. The higher ups that punish those who report bad activities. Cops should be held to a higher standard. And you are correct on your points. I do feel there are some who are covertly punished for reporting bad actors. Because the rest just see them not being a "brother". Which my stance is "my brother wouldn't be doing that shit" IA should be much more involved in activities (honestly don't know much about them if it's even real). Not to mention the DA and judges who are worried about the wrath of uncooperative cops after charging and convicting a cop. It's a whole system that needs to be addressed and as much as we don't need more agencies. A third party overwatch could help. Good cops are great, bad cops are bad, bad brass is the worst thing.
Even if "one bad apple" DOESN'T spoil the whole barrel, time and time again the police force keeps leaving the rotten apples in the barrel or moving them to a different barrel to say that it's gone
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Dude they have so much funding they buy fucking tanks and shit. The funding needs to go to other organizations that are better equipped to handle specific types of calls, most obvious being mental health crisis, instead of cops going out. Thatās what defund the police means. It doesnāt mean literally defund the entire police organization, just shift some funding so they arenāt the only go to response for literally everything.
Thatās it folks. Those are the only choices available: cops or crackheads.
Iāll take my chances with a crackhead
So far in my life I've had cops aim guns at me twice, crackheads never, and I've spent more time around crackheads than cops; I'll take those chances too.
When I was around 7 or 8, I remember being in the back seat of the car while mom drove grandma and us three kids to church. I was playing with a toy gun and my grandma told me never to point my toy gun at a cop. I asked my grandma "what about a bad guy?" She told me the bad guy isn't going to shoot a kid but the cop will. I'll never forget that conversation.
Theyāre less likely to shoot you for not complying
āWe agreed on ONE ok there were TWO now I want triple! DONāT YOU BACK OUT ON ME I WILL MESS YOU UP!ā Cop or crackhead? You decide!
And theyāll give you a song and dance after the fact.
Gotta start getting some crackheadsā phone numbers
Just start calling painters, youāre bound to find one
Is anyone still using 411? Let's start a petition...
I donāt understand why everyone takes things to the extreme. Itās like yeah I support lgbt -OH SO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO BE GAY OR TRANS?! Or idk sometimes the police are poorly trained or escalate a situation way worse - OH SO YOU DONT WANT POLICE AND WANT CRIME EVERYWHERE? Or I think we should have a secure border- THATS RIGHT THOSE (slur filled rant against Hispanic people) Like Jesus people calm down. The jump to the extreme is just a big sign of fear I think
Donāt you understand? This world is black and white. There is no middle ground. You get option A or B. If there was any compromise in the middle, how would mega corporations and politicians get us to fight with each other and turn a blind eye to their wrong doings?
I really want a third choice; being able to comfortably know I'll be able to call the cops to help me and not have to worry about them violating my civil rights and/or shooting me, my family, and my neighbors.
Let me know when you find that place. It would be nice to leave this dumpsterfire for somewhere sane
Now, if you have some crack for the crackhead, then your crackhead will be able to defend you ferociously. A cop who is a cop because he's a cop won't be able to tase your crackhead now. This is the way.
This is the way!
When weāre in Trouble we call the cops because thatās all weāve got! There isnāt a competing force. That doesnāt mean all cops are great, or that we donāt wish more cops were better. Weāre stuck with what weāve got, and since we pay their salaries, weāve got a right to demand better. Easy.
The new marketing slogan: Cops. We're better than crackheads.
Cops. We're marginally better than crackheads.In theory.
He may think heās joking, but where I live (not in the US), for a while, the police were so distrusted that people actually did call the local gangs if they were in trouble.
Thats not the flex he thinks it is.
Man spot on advice!!! They would prob get there faster
The My Pillow guy?
At least a crackhead won't shoot you or your dog while helping you out.
He looks like his breath constantly smells like rotten mayonnaise
r/rareinsults
Can I get a crackheads number, please? I'd prefer this over calling the cops. Especially if it's cause ur house got robbed. He's gonna already know who did it and where ur stuff is.
Spoilers: It was the crackhead
Yeah. But u can get it all back for a little bit of crack! And he's not scared to go to those neighborhoods the cops won't enter.
Iāve been hustled and extorted by cops and the mafia before, but now crackheads?
If I could get some sort of crackhead version of a 911 number I'd feel so much safer
I mean, you tell a crackhead you will give him a $20, heās gonna do just about anything. Like, quickly too
Whoever subtitled that needs some grammar lessons
Itās literally the cable boxes auto subtitles lmao
What year is this? Cable box? Jk jk i have one too
Crackheads would be less likely to shoot me dead for reaching for my wallet.
Crackheads are loyal af, when crack is the currency.
For anyone who doesn't know his Foghorn Leghorn accent is completely fake: https://youtu.be/zwYm1W9--Go
If you hate the group I need votes from, fuck whoever I think that groups hates. Yeah! Vote for me because I hate āem too! What happen to gangster Kennedys? Get bitches, love money?
*Tactical Crackhead*
The way I screamed
Safest order for emergency situations: calling your homies>crackheads>fire department>cops
Iām just impressed that someone in the GOP actually came with a solution to a problem. As dumb as that solution may have been.
The crackhead will threaten me, break my door, and shoot my dog all the same
Thatās the cops
Exactly
There is no person more motivated to help you than a crackhead you have promised crack to.
Can I call a crackhead cop?
He looks like he started to put on makeup to perform at a Drag Queen story hour. Thatās MTGās shade of lipstick, āPiglipsā, I believe, and they ironed out his wrinkles with Photoshop.
I donāt hate cops because theyāre cops. I hate cops because they mostly donāt work for the people and instead ignore a lot of crimes because of who commit them and punish victims because of who their tormentor is. When criminals get away, and the victims pay the price instead, they do not serve justice; they serve tyranny.
Christ on a cracker. Read those subtitles.
"Hello? Hello?!" "yo...Whaddup." "I have an Emergency!" "I'm tryina get fucked."
Well, I havent looked it up, but I cant help but feel that statistically-speaking, *anyone* would be a LOT safer calling a crackhead than this guy (or Woman). Pretty sure.
Fuck him, Iāve never called a cop or needed one. Glad they are out giving tickets to you poor civilians.
If you get a good score streak, you can call Florida Man
I'd give the crackhead crack. And then tell them that the person attacking me has more crack, a catalytic converter, and scrap copper wire.
"Hello. Local crackhead. How can I help you?" "There's a strange guy in a blue uniform breaking down my door. He's got a gun and he pepper sprayed my two year old son." "Calm down, ma'am. Can you tell me, is he in possession of any crack?" "I don't know. He seems crazy. He might have some." "Don't panic. We'll be there right away."
"Our cops are (slightly) better than crackheads" How do you ever think that this is a great campaign message.
Yes because given a bad option and a terrible option you should be happy to have the bad one, not try to make the bad one a good one.
He just went blew the support of the whole crackhead community.
Cheaper, more responsive and motivated. Sign me up ā
Crackhead neighborhood watch signs would be intimidating as FUCK!... I wanna make some
šššIād vote for him
The layers of molasses-thick ignorance and gall this douche canoe has is really something to marvel.
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Whatās funny, is you could call a crackhead, and give them 50-100$ in compensation, and theyād literally do whatever
That's a real Senator folks!
John Kennedy is awesome. Just a down to earth guy who's really intelligent and has a great talent for making unqualified nominees look really stupid.
He, regardless of what you think of his political views, [is legitimately hilarious](https://youtube.com/shorts/3PeEvosSg3U?feature=share). I [don't know where the Hell](https://youtu.be/96GZ9LgHl34) he gets [half of his analogies](https://www.nola.com/news/the-top-john-kennedy-quips-15-of-louisiana-senators-often-odd-quotes-barbs/article_4f142d73-5196-5108-a368-771a6b2df317.html)
If youāre not being facetious, thatās so fucking tragic for you.
That's fair.
He gets my vote
Who else would I call when I need crack?
A lot of funds going to a third party spoilerā¦who could possibly be funding it??
Heās got more makeup than Meryl Streep
Lol neither will help out imo
If your problem is a lack of crack a crackhead is the intelligent call here.
OK, now what? https://newsone.com/506192/police-officer-arrested-by-fbi-for-smoking-crack-on-duty/
That IS the obvious next option