George Floyd Riots

[midnight rambler]

please share when you have time what defunding the police would look like.

From this guy's perspective, someone who's been working patrol for big city PD for only two years, but he struck me as a genuine nice guy, probably mid-late 20s. His thinking is that patrol will be the last thing, if ever, to be reduced or rolled back. The reduction in force will hit the detective division hard, so instead of a detective investigating a crime against a person taking a day or two to start checking things out, defunded it could take weeks for a detective to follow up on a rape case for example. So essentially the 'criminal justice system' will ultimately crater and screw the crime victims, every last one of them (my opinion not his). He also said that pay and pensions would take a hit and that would make recruiting that much more difficult. We talked about how no one will want to be a cop in the future. He also had some very unkind words about the Chief which kinda surprised me. I sensed from that there was a similar sentiment amongst the rank and file. While we did not discuss the blue flu we did talk about the threshold for the use of deadly force when in one's automobile, "We (as in both cops and non-cops, i.e. mostly reasonable people) have seen enough of the mob pulling people out of cars and trucks and beating the shit out of them, the moment they break out a glass in one's automobile is enough for a reasonable person to be in fear for their life, so gun it and escape."

He also allowed that their bean bag rounds were out of date so the tails didn't deploy and therefore it was one solid mass when it hit at a higher velocity. That college student who got head in the back of the head was hit with an out of date bean bag round which actually embedded in the kid's scalp.