Police retention and recruiting taking a hit
If you do not break the law, you should not have problems with the police. They are busy doing things like going after people who are actually breaking the law. Many of the videos involving suspects dying in conjunction with detention attempts provide examples of people doing things they shouldn’t be doing during an arrest.
However, many on the left want to overlook the poor decision-making process displayed by the suspects. Instead of focusing on the whole picture including cause-and-effect, they accuse the arresting officers of race motivated murder. Biased reporting, by the media against the police, has contributed to the negative impacts on both police retention and on police recruitment.
From Blaze Media:
Colligan said that recent notorious police-involved deaths of citizens such as George Floyd, Tamir Rice, and Breonna Taylor have impacted recruiting efforts.
“Every action has a reaction. When you vilify every police officer for every bad police officer’s decision, [people] don’t want to take this job anymore,” Colligan, head of New Jersey’s largest police union, said. “It’s been a very trying and difficult time to put on the badge every day.”
Colligan also said the “quality has really diminished in the last few years,” which could mean more tragic police confrontations in the future.
Col. Patrick Callahan, the acting superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, said the state’s largest police agency received a “historically low” number of applications this year. In some years, the New Jersey State Police would usually receive between 15,000 to 20,000 applications — this year they only received 2,023 qualified applicants as of Thursday, according to NJ.com.
“The atmosphere with police work right now is people just don’t want to apply,” Robert Fox, president of the New Jersey State Fraternal Order of Police, said.
The Blaze has the rest of the article here.
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Of course:
Decades ago when I was taking all of my TCLEOSE classes and training, our instructor told us “You can beat the rap but you won’t beat the ride. The cop can call friends to help beat your ass. One way or another you’re taking a ride in a government vehicle. Cop car or coroner wagon, your call.”
When I was Reserve Officer years ago I would tell suspects pretty much that. You can stop and we’ll talk and you might go to jail. You run and make me chase you, you are going to jail but not in the same shape.
You’re going to jail, whether you take a trip through the hospital first is up to you.
“Everybody know, if the police have to come get you they’re bringing an ass-whuppin’ with them.” –Chris Rock
I support our law enforcement, period. Every group, civilian, military, police, and medical to name a few have bad apples. There is no way in human endeavors to have perfect people. We just do not exist. Most of the confrontations I have seen were warranted when the officer used his weapon to protect himself or others. But no matter how he does it, like the recent incident when the officer killed the 16-year-old, who in front of him, rushed towards another girl with a raised knife and he shot her. The first comments heard from the crowd at the home who had called the police because of this 16 ear old were, “why’d you shoot her?”.
Really? He saved the other girl’s life. He told her several times to stop but no. She was intent on murder and his bodycam shows it clearly. He made a split-second decision in a crowd of talking, shouting people, and saved a life. Now he’s a racist. What if the officer had been black? It would have been the same thing.
People who want to defund the police call them for help. They get the help and then do not like it.
The people who want to defund the Police can just call on a street corner drug dealer, gangbanger or crackhead for help if they think they need it!
This is driving my property values up.
As police force reduction occurs, crime spikes as we have all witnessed.
This creates flight.
Flight creates a a shift in supply / demand ratio,
Property values increase.
Not right or wrong. Just fact.
In my area to Green Thumb. My only problem is they leave the crap they didn’t like, move here and then start the same liberal crap the left.
Good point.
Which IMHO confirms my hypothesis that liberals and liberalism are not unlike a parasitic infection. They infest and area, render it unlivable and then infest other areas to do the same just like liberal Cafifornites have done with Washington State, Oregon and Colorado!
Not if you live in a city where crime goes up.
Maybe this is being done so no ones wants to be an LEO, and if their are no LEO’s, they can bring in troops who would be under their power hence the plan to get rid/confiscate all Sturmgewehr’s and handguns and then again, the majority of cities don’t have the problem. Depends on the race demographics.
Obama could have prevented this back when he chose to criticize the cops rather than the perps- “if I had a son..”, “the cops acted stupidly..” He could have said, “argue in court, not on the street”. But he did not. Not until BLM followers killed five cops in Dallas and others in Baton Rouge, did he say a word of criticism, and then not much. And nothing since. Makes me think he wants this.
Where the fuck is Rachel Dolezal when you need her!
Workin’ on her tan?
Because of his comments, Obama polarized race relations in this country. Because of his comments, this is how all this nonsense started.
The media keeps that narrative going.
We don’t hear about organizations like “ACORN” anymore because they’ve been replaced by BLM and Antifa.
98% of arrests are peaceful. The ones that aren’t always involve drugs/ alcohol consumption and some poor decision making on the part of the person being arrested. So far everyone who has ever told me “You can’t arrest me!” has been completely wrong about that.
I’ve always thought SROs should teach a class or 2 in high school (in one of the life skills classes) explaining interactions with police. Relevant case law, what to expect, etc.. It wouldn’t stop the shit heads from being shit heads but it would help the vast majors of kids avoid making stupid decisions when they do interact with law enforcement.
That would be an outstanding idea Penguinman000! I remember growing up and each year we would be visited by Officer Safety (in elementary school). He would likely be the first time any of us had ever seen a Police Officer. By meeting one, not under bad circumstances, and understanding that they are not out to get you (like a boogeyman) a child learns that they are there to help us, and to remind us to not do things that are bad (just like a teacher).
By adding something like this back in to Highschool, the Officer can explain how to make a traffic stop go well! How not to make it worse. Since many teens speed (help them to understand exactly how much time they are saving when they speed). They can explain what will happen when they knock on the door to a teen party with the music too loud (hide the alcohol), be polite and they will just tell you to turn down the music.
Great idea!
“If you do not break the law, you should not have problems with the police”
True, but unfortunately not in the real world.
The problem is that liberals & leftists think that law enforcement misconduct is SOP and conservatives & the police deny that misconduct exists at all, and refuse to punish those guilty of it.
He said “should” not “won’t” I’d say approximately .5% of the people I arrest have not broken any law related to the arrest. Given the number of people arrested every year that is a lot of people.
How does this happen? Sometimes people give false witness to the police, DA, Prosecutor, whoever and the person gets accused of wrong doing that they didn’t do and gets arrested. Those people get a day in court.
Every once in a great while someone, somewhere along the line makes a mistake and the wrong person is identified in a warrant as a case of mistaken identity. I’ve only had that happen a couple of times over the years but it is usually so obvious when this happens that it is addressed immediately. IF the person is actually arrested, in my state that is a near automatic $50K payday for false arrest if the person files a lawsuit. $50K is the limit of liability the state allows here ebut no agency will try to defend an at-fault suit for such a relatively small amount.
“How does this happen?”
And sometimes through laziness, incompetence, or corruption on the part of the police. And sometimes it results in the death of an innocent civilian.
I realize this doesn’t happen often, but it does happen. And in too many cases the person(s) responsible are not held accountable, which makes things worse. Then there is the thievery called “Civil Asset Forfeiture”.
Wow, can’t understand why the application rate is so low to become an LEO. I mean, after all, they make top pay, get free clothing, got a company car to ride in, easy peasy work schedule, weekends and holidays off. Tote a nice firearm, cool hats, accessories, immunity from speeding tickets or prosecution. All of that, and a good working environment with the total respect and cooperation of the public.
Y’all don’t slip on that dripping sarcasm that’s puddling up here.
My local LEOs know that they can call on me for backup, anytime.
As I said in the other thread, as long as being a cop is a better-than-average paying government job with benefits, you will get applicants.
The QUALITY of those applicants, though, is likely to vary widely between those departments in areas where cops are respected and those where they are vilified.
And poor quality cops is a guaranteed way of making the whole policing-in-black-communities problem worse, not better.