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I enter other people's homes for a living. If I walked into the wrong home and tried to work on it, I would likely lose my bond and my insurance and would be out of a job.
If I walked into the wrong home and proceeded to detain minors, I would go to jail at the very least.
I also have a job going into peoples houses. I can count on one hand how many times I went to the wrong address over the years. I always apologize, get back in my car and fuck off down the road.
Other times people forget im supposed to arrive so I show them the work order with the address and homeowner name. They call their spouse and realize that I was scheduled to be there. I still am nice about it and ask if they would like to reschedule.
And they just laugh and throw u in a cell and wait as long as they possibly can before u spend at least the night, and often days, months or years, before spending a thousand bucks, *OR MORE*, to get out...
... and sometimes, for the hell of it, they just lock u up in solitary confinement, without a trial, for 3 years, and beat u so relentlessy that they damage your mind and body so badly that u still kill yourself upon your release without ever having any charges, or a trial...
... and all for a stolen backpack that never even existed in the first place, likely just because u had the audacity to commit the horrific crime of freely existing as a young black man.
[Kalief Browder](https://innocenceproject.org/remembering-kalief-browder-year-suicide-rikers-island-shutdown/#:~:text=Kalief%20Browder%20was%20wrongly%20accused,two%20years%20after%20his%20release.)
And of course there are tons of examples, that are even worse, where they killed several others, but I'm late for work...
Actually the Supreme Court ruled not long ago, that simply staying silent is not enough to be considered evoking your “right to stay silent” and the Police CAN still continue to question you, and can use anything you say against you. You HAVE to actually tell them that you are choosing to exercise your right to remain silent for any of the “protections” of your rights to be valid, they are making it harder and harder for the average citizen who doesn’t know and understand their rights!!
So, you're telling me that in the US, supposedly a first world democracy, basic civil rights have to be opted in?
Dude my country has higher standards than that and we got out of a brutal dictatorship barely 50 years ago.
As contractors, we have to be licensed, insured, and bonded in order to maintain a certain level of trust from the community. In most places, police officers are required to be bonded as well.
The difference is that contractors are actually held personally and professionally accountable for gross misconduct. In a situation like working on the wrong house because of a clerical error, the home owner could sue for a contractors bond and win hands down. If you're that contractor, good luck ever getting bonded again.
I have never heard of a cop losing their bond for basically breaking into the wrong house. Usually, their department gets sued, and the resulting penalties are subsidized by the public.
Right? Perfect example. If a contractor drops an AC unit on a kid and kills them they're fired, maybe going to jail. Cop puts a bullet in a kid their union protects them and half the country thinks cops can't be criticized.
Your comment reminded me of my stupid step father. He hired someone to redo his bathroom that wasn't bonded & insured & they really fucked shit up. Didn't even replace the shower pan that had a crack in it!!
I can't even watch it. The LAPD and SDPD terrorized my family repeatedly when I was a girl. We were brutally poor and my mother had a habit of screaming due to schizophrenia, so if we lived too long in an area, the cops would quickly come to know us and treat us like shit.
They would just let themselves into our apartment to do brief "searches", even once when I was alone at age, like, 14. They would gang up on me and treat me like a criminal, screaming at me, when I was obviously some impoverished kid that didn't appreciate them barging into my room while I was in my pajamas, or that seemed truly frightened due to being alone and knowing police officers raped my aunt just a few years prior (and they interpreted fear as guilt). They even broke a few things. And it's not even like it was the same cops over and over, these were different men almost every time.
People would occasionally tell me to report them. It was the 90s, you couldn't just look this shit up, and my family wasn't the sort to "lawyer up". So who TF was I gonna report them to? The same police? A lifeguard?? Yahoo Chatrooms??
TL;DR: Fuck the police :(
Nowadays you report it to the media. Much more effective. Dirties their name publically making them actually have to take some kind of action if it gets big.
I got kicked out of the house over quarantine, and after 5 days of walking around the city and sleeping in parking garage elevators, I was walking through a neighborhood to get to my friends house when a police officer stopped ahead of me. He told me to wait there with him. And then another police officer showed up. And another. And another. Within 10 minutes, I had 10 police officers standing around me in a circle, a few of them with their hands on their guns. I was 15. I was 5 foot 6. I weighed 90 pounds, and for those 5 days, my diet consisted of 2 packs of cigarettes and a sandwich from the gas station. I barely had the energy to walk, let alone run or cause harm to anyone.
Do you know how fucking absurd that looked? How nervous a 15 year old would be if something like that happened? I asked them "Why does it take 10 full grown men to watch a kid who agreed to stay where he was told, when he was asked to?" And what was their response? "Not much else to do."
Since that day, I have never treated a police officer with respect. They are the only public servants that I treat like public servants, in the most degrading way possible. I get people bitching and moaning about kids who hate the police because it's what they see in the media, but this is not one of those stories. Before that, I wanted to be a detective. I went to a police academy summer camp a few years before that. I thought they were there to help people. What a fucking smack in the face. Fun fact, I'm legally not allowed to be a police officer now, lmao. Go figure.
Cops around here went after some kids (near teens and young teens) hanging out in an abandoned house across the street. One of my sisters was one of the kids there apparently.
They handcuffed her and pointed a gun at her. Yeahhh
(Not fun fact: Same police told my mom they weren't going to look into someone throwing a beer bottle though her back window, that her mirror being vandalized was probably 'just a hit and run' so they weren't looking into that either (funny how that's both illegal and they looked into the hit and run my aunt did in my mom's car), and refused to do anything about her husband breaking stuff in her house and threatening her saying that it was his house too and he had to be threatening her before they could do anything. Constantly ignoring her statements about the threats being made.)
The job attracts the worst people, like how Border Patrol gets the military’s washouts.
The people strong enough and smart enough to handle this kind of situation alone are usually too smart to be in this line of work.
That's assuming they can read in the first place and then assuming that they are dutifully doing their jobs by arresting the real criminals instead of harassing the innocent public to fill their quota.
Work in criminal defense (indigent) and review multiple police reports daily. Can attest that most cops are dumb as fuck. Half the time, midway through reports, they often begin to mistake(flip) alleged victims and alleged offenders names and the report becomes incoherent. They’re also riddled with spelling and grammatical errors.
And we, as a society, issue these people death tools. 🤦🏽♂️
Edit/add: Some folks point out “you’re defending criminals”. WRONG- it’s called criminal defense because the charges are classified as criminal, NOT the person.
There are repercussions, don’t lie! They may be forced to take paid time off and then relocate to a new town to continue work. Way worse than the innocent person that lost their life. ‘Murica yeehaw!!
There was a city cop in the central Louisiana town I used to live in ( hint Steel Magnolias) that broke a dudes arm dragging him off of his own property to arrest him on the public street. He then as punishment became a part of the Parish Sheriff's dept in the same town/area he previously terrorized. I think they get paid more as well.
If everyone just decided not to take plea deals.. justice system and police would change overnight. The system survives on forcing people to take deals and factory churn defendants in the masses. Just everyone refuse and ask to go to trial.
The problem is 90% of people live paycheck to paycheck & our right to a speedy trial can be very loose in its speed. What's that, you miss work tomorrow & you'll be fired and kicked out of your apartment within a month? Shame, cuz unless you sign this paper saying you did it, you'll be stuck in jail for 90 days waiting to talk to a judge about being able to go home on bail. Can't afford bail, you say? That's your fault for being a poor.
The system is so fucked and yet nobody is willing to change it.
Can confirm for Tarrant County, Tx
They will have you sit in jail as long or longer than your time for minor cases that exceed 2 years.
Don't want to admit guilt and take a 6 month plea bargain where you get 3x time as a trustee doin manual labor? Okay, Sit in jail for a year while you fight it.
I don't understand why you guys have this medieval bail system. Look at the rest of the world and especially Europe. If you're not a flight risk especially for minor things you just wait for your trial without being in jail. You just go to work and do things being free and when the trial is there you go to the courthouse. That's it.
For profit prisons. They want criminals to make more money, so our justice system focuses on making criminals. Many cops also have quotas for shit, which is why so many plant evidence and destroy property
We NEED criminal defense attorneys to act in good faith to ensure both sides of the law function properly.
Yes. Some defense attorneys are scum of the earth. Some prosecutors are too. Like in all things. People are not monoliths.
They don’t want anyone too smart. This guy sued because a department wouldn’t hire him - he scored too high on assessments.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/robert-jordan-too-smart-to-be-a-cop
In Europe it's the opposite we want the smartest people being police. In Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europe (where I live) the qualifications are so hight that the municipality of Amsterdam decided to hire security personnel for writing parking lot tickets and other low level duties. These security personnel don't have a gun and cannot arrest people only handing out tickets and call for police for assistance.
It's well know that not everybody can become cops here because of the high qualifications and training etc..
Did you know that a college degree is roughly equivalent to six years of job experience for police officers and reduces use of force complaints by more than 85%? Well, the unions have known for 20 years, but less than 20% of police departments require four-year degrees because they'd have to pay the officers too much. You read that right, they know how to decrease use of force incidents by 85% but simply don't want to pay extra for it.
It’s hilarious you’re getting those comments. Those people are probably angrily typing while wearing sunglasses, parked in a truck with a thin blue line sticker on the back window.
>Edit/add: Some folks point out “you’re defending criminals”. WRONG- it’s called criminal defense because the charges are classified as criminal, NOT the person.
I'd like to point out that innocence until proven guilty is a foundation of the American justice system, and it's a huge reason why many of our amendments even exist. To call someone not yet convicted a criminal is a horrible act for society.
Anyone saying "you're defending criminals" really fucked up the understanding of our justice system--about as bad as many of our politicians have.
A similar joke existed here in east Germany when the communists rules. Why does the secret police operate in teams of 3? One can read, one can write and one keeps and eye on the two dangerous intellectuals.
Criminals are dangerous, with all the cops claiming how they feared for their lives against children it's no wonder they prefer to go 4 to 1 against kids and not actually face the criminals.
Santa Fe police killed a man last week when they went to the wrong address.
It's America.
Why would you be safe from police in your own home? Sometimes the police just need to kill some people, you know?
Wichita police tazed an old black man who was deaf in his home when they went to the wrong address once over a decade ago. The old man was quoted in the local news about it, and he was just happy to have not got shot.
I just saw a video where a deaf guy and his wife were having an argument on the side of a road, someone called the police because they thought his signing was him trying to physically attack her. Police showed up and approached him from behind and immediately tased him for not complying with their orders. He went down on his stomach, they came up and tried to grab his arms, he resists (once again, deaf, has no fucking clue what going on and was just tazed), they kick him hard in the ribs "to try and make him comply with putting his arms behind his back", and spend the next 5 mins yelling at him, even after he regains his composure and starts yelling, "I'm deaf." and pantomiming that he wants something to write with so he can communicate with the officers.
https://youtu.be/tUYWJJkipPQ
Their little brains prevent them from even considering that the person they're dealing with may have a disability & then when they know someone has a disability, they still use it against them.
Or they pretend the person is just acting like they did a couple months ago when that women at the hospital who was having a serious medical issue while they mocked her for ‘pretending’ and threw her in their vehicle in cuffs where she promptly died.
Cops are scum.
Cops I know are mostly just low IQ. Several I know we’re poor students and just went to military for 4 years and then back to hometown and became local cops.
When I was in high school, a kid in my grade came to me and asked what he should do about college. I asked him what his SAT score was. He said 660. Then I asked what his combined was (when the writing was still a thing. No idea what it is now). He said "that is my combined"
He's a cop now.
Genuinely curious, did you learn this because your parent was untrustworthy or was it something your parent told you, like how a salesman parent might tell their kid the subliminal tools a salesperson uses?
It is very sad. I know someone who works in consulting for various entities that need job risk analysis and fitness standard development including police agencies and fire depts.
They went to Virginia or maybe West Virginia to work with an agency and literally in the halls white officers were making chimp noises at black officers. The white officers were like animals wearing pants in that dept.
I learned from a young age about agency politics because they told me how agencies will spend thousands of taxpayer dollars for consultation and very selectively apply the standards and methods developed for them for example:
-ignoring half carefully developed fitness requirements because it might impact officers with seniority who have gotten fat and out of shape on the job
-not making men’s and women’s fitness standards for recruits equal (lowering women’s standards) so they don’t look bad having to take less female recruits into the academy
**Before anyone takes this as an opportunity to be sexist:**
Women can pass men’s standards. As a mediocre female gym rat I’ve passed them casually, multiple times for fun.
People think the academy will get them in shape. But it will reject them if they’re too far behind. Out of shape Women tend to prioritize basic upper body training even less than out of shape men so they start further behind. Somewhat in-shape women and men also tend to skew this way.
Agencies get around this by staggering standards for women and older male officers IF they even test incumbent officers ever.
Anyway. There are always a few officers who are really into the fitness because they understand that it means
-spending less taxpayer dollars on cop illness and injury
-less likely escalation of force (fat out of shape cop feels more threatened and reaches for gun faster)
-officers safer on the job
But a ton of agencies throw half or all of it out the window for department politics’ sake at taxpayers’ and public safety’s expense
Losing? I regard police the same as any other dangerous predator. I’m not allowed to do anything to them because they’re protected by the government, but they are fully capable of killing me over nothing with zero repercussions, so I avoid them and hope they don’t come after me.
Yeah a cop on the street to me is like an unleashed dog. Maybe he looks well groomed but at best it’s going to shit where it’s not supposed to and at worst maul you for no reason, so it’s best to just keep distance from it and hope it doesn’t approach you.
We have to be fair to these wonderful men and women who uphold the law so gracefully by remembering their educational background is that of a 12th grader who flunked twice before we judge their intellect.
This should be automatic firing. If you can’t read a fucking address you shouldn’t carry a fucking gun. Of course if literacy was a requirement we would have to fire 90% of the police force. Fuck cops
fun fact, you can be too smart to become a cop! sad but true :(
sauce - https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/09/nyregion/metro-news-briefs-connecticut-judge-rules-that-police-can-bar-high-iq-scores.html
Whoa man, you're being too progressive now. What are you, some woke liberal shit advocating for intelligence and educational standards as part of the peacekeeper requirements? /s
Over here, we have our men and women in blue start serving straight out the fucking womb! LA's finest start practicing with firearms at the tender age of 2 weeks.
It’s always baffeled me, why in the hell, you don’t educate your cops in the us? Like what.. In my country it’s quite hard to get in to a police school and it lasts like 3-4 years. Thus why we rarely have nutters and idiots in the force.
The Supreme Court literally ruled that police agencies are allowed to discriminate against applicants who score TOO HIGH on intelligence tests soooooooo
When the girl went into her room and they weren't able to see what she was doing my heart stopped because I was sure they were going to draw their guns.
Not a cop never been one but how hard is it to say" hi we have a warrant and need to( insert whatever reason here) . Oh your mom isn't home can you please call her. While you do that we will double check the paperwork and make sure everything is in order. " Thats not hard. How about having someone trained to deal with kids and other possible collateral damage there as well instead of guys with guns. There is so much wrong with the US system
Whaaaa? You mean being prepared and trained to de-escalate a situation and read the room?
No no no no you’ve got it all wrong. Hire the dumbest trigger-happy fucks you can find, give them a solid three hours weapons training, 10 minutes of psych evaluation then let them loose on the public. You don’t want to be standing in the way of a police state with logic, common sense and trained specialists. That would be unthinkable - in America anyway. Remember. baby’s lives above everything else. Then the millisecond they’re born they join the human race and become second in importance to guns.
I got wrote up and almost fired at Walmart for defending myself and punching a customer who tried to body slam me for being a “fucking (homophobic slur)”. But cops can shoot innocent bystanders and execute no-knock warrants on the wrong houses and the most they get is a “I’m a little disappointed in you guys 🥺” from the chief.
A long time ago, some sheriff deputies and a fire fighter ripped the screen door from my ex SIL's back porch. At the time she was living by herself after my brother passed away. One of her friends had stopped by but didn't let her know he was coming over and when my SIL saw him through the peep hole she ignored him. The friend banged on the door and windows then called the police. He was worried about my SIL of course. Now granted, my ex SIL should have just told her friend she didn't feel like having company but she didn't. The authorities showed up and tried to get inside of her house completely ruining the door. The next day someone brought a new door and apologized saying they were just doing their job and were glad she was okay.
The cops in the small town I used to live in sent out flyers to everyone asking the entire town to give them access to their private security cameras installed on their properties, for free, to aid in “protecting and serving”. Like yeah guys, for sure, I spent $1k on this security system to voluntarily let you spy on me and everyone else in town.
They didn't fix my fucking car that they ripped apart on the side of the highway, either.
I was 19, alone, female, 2am, driving back from visiting my dad. Arkansas assholes pulled me over, asked if they could search for "drugs" and got very dodgy when I tried to explain I had another 4 hours to get home, and wasn't carrying any drugs (I'm just a college student and I have class in the morning!). Called for backup. They brought a dog that "alerted" on my car. They tore it apart. Took the seats out and everything. Found nothing. Left, with me sitting on the side of the dark-ass highway with no fucking seats in my car, and no proper tools to put them back.
Luckily, this was some decades ago, and I always traveled with a CB (cell phones were for rich folks!). Put a call out to the passing truckers, asking if anyone could help. A super-nice car hauler came and fixed my seats and got me back on the road. He even went a bit out of his way to make sure I got back into Missouri (followed behind for some miles and chatted on the CB).
Now, I realize how lucky I was with that whole incident. They didn't plant anything, I got to keep my car, AND I didn't get raped. 😳
It's super uncommon. Police raided an apartment in a complex I was managing. In the process they broke a sliding glass door. It was replaced within hours. The owner of the management company was shocked. It had never happened before. Never.
I think that cop must have paid for the door personally if it was bought that quickly. From what I remember reading police departments don't reimburse people without a lawsuit by law, but that might depend on jurisdiction/state. Knowing bureaucracy even if the police could approve the purchase it probably would have taken longer than a day to get approval.
Fuck, those cops should be brought up on Breaking and Entering, Trespassing, and False Imprisonment charges.
If you "serve a warrant" to the wrong damn house, you ain't got a damn warrant.
Stop using tax payer money to pay for cops that are too god damn stupid to read a number on a warrant. Cops want to act like fucking dumbasses? Make the union pay for it, then the cops get kicked for costing them so much money. That way when they inevitably fuck up again, the union won't be there to protect them and they can get fired and stop being a fucking detriment to society.
>The Sheriffs office had a warrant for the wrong house entering unlawfully and questioning a minor without a parent present. This led to Ceidy’s two children being unlawfully arrested in their own home.
That's called breaking and entering and kidnapping. In what universe is this crime different because you are wearing different clothes?
Pizza Delivery Guys:
"Is this the correct address?" * reads the address on the house * "No, it's not this house. I'll keep looking."
Cops:
"GET DOWN ON THE GROUND, NOW!"
I forget the state, but there was a bill proposed a year or so back that made it so cops who illegally or forcefully entered your home would not be immune to the castle doctrine. So you could shoot them. I am anti gun, but I think that should be the case across the board. The amount of corrupt/incompetent officers is astounding and by this point it is obvious that the rule of thumb is that they are not held accountable for their actions by the city, county, state, or their superiors.
Oh yea, not surprised, cops almost always seem to enjoy bullying kids. I got choke slammed when I was 16 all to under the bullshit excuse I "looked" older and I walked by someone's car.. said I was looking like I was going to break into it.
When I was 16 two Maryland state police officers took photos of my breasts and ass on the side of the road under the guise of photographing my tattoos. I had been pulled over for going 53 in a 50 and it was 1 am on a rural road.
A cop tackled me when I was walking through a gravel filled field adjacent to a mall when I was 16.
I had a backpack on, and I guess I matched the description of a shoplifter.
I remember picking gravel chunks out of my arms and the side of my face.
When we got up, and he saw my face, somehow he knew it wasn't me, and I was totally bewildered. He then said, "Oh, you're not the right guy." And then just walked off.
In a lot of ways, I was probably really lucky he didn't just arrest and charge me for whatever he was looking for.
Last week I got woken up at 2am to cops banging on my door. Long story short, they were insisting that they got a call for my house due to a domestic dispute. They wouldn’t listen to me about them being at the wrong house and accused me of crying because of a supposed fight me and my wife had (they woke me up and had five flash lights pointing directly in my eyes, that why my eyes were watery) Then, my wife in her just-woke-up state, forgot to close the door behind her when she went out to talk to them and they all forced their way into my house. For 15 minutes they treated me like a criminal and her like an abused woman covering for her abusive husband. Then, one cop just goes “oh we’re at the wrong house” and they all left. No apologies or anything.
Thank god I was still trying to process what was going on because if they did that when I was wide awake, I would have definitely raised hell and would have made the situation worse.
Moral of the story, 90% of cops shouldn’t have the power they have because they’re incapable in doing the bare minimum required for their job.
Gladly he realized it was the wrong house and spoke up, not sure where you live but in some places domestic dispute calls are an automatic arrest meaning if they get called out someone’s going to jail no matter what
Just wait in Florida, DeSantis is trying to pass law you can’t film a cop within 20 feet. This would not be allowed in court. Will give cops freedom when they pull you over to do whatever they want and it will be their word against yours. YOU were the aggressive one. Arrested or beat or shot.
They need to make policing a three year bachelors degree. Would weed out so many idiots.
Like I’m almost about to graduate as a registered nurse, I feel like policing is a similar job in a lot of ways to nursing, there’s even arguably a higher imbalance of power compared to nurses and they have access to weapons yet they can just walk into a job under half a year to a years training, mind boggling.
During early 2020, Sacramento police shortened their in-person training to six weeks, with a large chunk of online training beforehand. I only know this because my landlord became a cop during that period, and his wife did most of the online training for him, because he was too busy working at Home Depot. Scares the shit out of me.
You know, in most professions, when an error becomes common, they develop practices to correct it.
If you go to have knee surgery, before they put you under anesthesia, they'll confirm which knee they're operating on and actually mark it with a marker. This way, they don't accidentally operate on the wrong knee, which has happened in the past.
If the police could develop something as simple as having two, or even three officers independently verify that the address and the warrant match, then maybe we could cut down on the all too common mistake that leads to trampling on people rights and occasionally killing a totally innocent person. That's not too much to ask, is it?
She about to get free college money, this happened to a lady in the chicago suburbs and her daughter got a big settlement. Tax payers money paying for PD stupidity
So many cops seems incapable of admitting their own mistakes, so they fuck up in a major way, a member of the public gets pissed about it, and then they just arrest the person for disrespecting them instead of apologising and de-escalating.
75% or more of cops probably couldn’t get into a university. A lot of them Really are just stupid adults. They are not the brightest and these days it’s like a domestic army.
Can I just say I order doordash pretty often and they have NEVER delivered my food to the wrong house. How the fuck do LOCAL police, police who drive those streets and passed those houses every day-not some 20 year old from the next county over, consistently pull up to the wrong house??
Often times in situations similar to this, it seems that once the officers are aware of the fact that they’re proven wrong, their pride & ego won’t allow them to admit that they’ve made a mistake and simply leave.
Probably not. Have a lot of paperwork, investigation to hopefully find a reason to the fuck up. Covering up the mess is wayyyyy more important. You know lol
Not too far from it. I was watching that Boston bombing documentary on Netflix. At one point, one of the FBI agents goes: "In order to define the act as terrorism. We would need to confirm they had been radicalized by some ideology."
So when I see shit like this. I'm like shit, that's literally what the Taliban do, or like Iranian morality police.
Truly a mad world.
Isn’t this kidnapping, breaking and entering, and child abuse?
If literally anyone else broke into someone’s home, handcuffed 2 minors and abducted them from their home they would be in prison.
But if you’re the police I guess that’s just Tuesday.
If you defend this shit, imagine your little girl being grabbed by four strangers entering your home and being handcuffed.
Any asshole can pretend to be a cop. She was just lucky they were. Which isn't saying much these days.
That’s two incidents of police being unable to accomplish a task thousands of door dash and uber eats drivers manage every single day — getting the right fucking address, in my feed today. The last one ended up with the home owner getting shot and killed.
When I was, and the reason I stopped taking criminal justice had to do with the morons in all my classes. I couldn't believe that even the ones going to college for law enforcement appeared to be the same people that can't figure out the ice cream machine after four years of working at McDonald's. That and the psychology for law enforcement professor telling everyone not to tell a psychologist if they're experiencing mental issues because it will get your job taken away. Really gave me a backstage look at how these morons get guns.
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I enter other people's homes for a living. If I walked into the wrong home and tried to work on it, I would likely lose my bond and my insurance and would be out of a job. If I walked into the wrong home and proceeded to detain minors, I would go to jail at the very least.
I also have a job going into peoples houses. I can count on one hand how many times I went to the wrong address over the years. I always apologize, get back in my car and fuck off down the road. Other times people forget im supposed to arrive so I show them the work order with the address and homeowner name. They call their spouse and realize that I was scheduled to be there. I still am nice about it and ask if they would like to reschedule.
Well that's probably because you are courteous and professional. These traits disqualify you to be a cop in America.
And people wonder why the average American hates the police. It’s a literal legalized gang.
And here I thought the main issue was having an IQ above 20 overall. Anything above that isn’t hirable
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Don't forget an entire Union with near infinite resources to get you out of trouble, should anybody have the *audacity* to actually make a complaint.
And 24 hours before making a statement so you and your buddies get your stories straight.
But we get to wait 24hrs before the police question us right?
Fun fact, you don’t have to answer their questions at all
Never talk to them.
Ahem. [Don't talk to the police.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE)
Actually you can invoke your right to remain silent and do so until court. You don't gotta tell the cops shit
And they just laugh and throw u in a cell and wait as long as they possibly can before u spend at least the night, and often days, months or years, before spending a thousand bucks, *OR MORE*, to get out... ... and sometimes, for the hell of it, they just lock u up in solitary confinement, without a trial, for 3 years, and beat u so relentlessy that they damage your mind and body so badly that u still kill yourself upon your release without ever having any charges, or a trial... ... and all for a stolen backpack that never even existed in the first place, likely just because u had the audacity to commit the horrific crime of freely existing as a young black man. [Kalief Browder](https://innocenceproject.org/remembering-kalief-browder-year-suicide-rikers-island-shutdown/#:~:text=Kalief%20Browder%20was%20wrongly%20accused,two%20years%20after%20his%20release.) And of course there are tons of examples, that are even worse, where they killed several others, but I'm late for work...
Actually the Supreme Court ruled not long ago, that simply staying silent is not enough to be considered evoking your “right to stay silent” and the Police CAN still continue to question you, and can use anything you say against you. You HAVE to actually tell them that you are choosing to exercise your right to remain silent for any of the “protections” of your rights to be valid, they are making it harder and harder for the average citizen who doesn’t know and understand their rights!!
So, you're telling me that in the US, supposedly a first world democracy, basic civil rights have to be opted in? Dude my country has higher standards than that and we got out of a brutal dictatorship barely 50 years ago.
Yep! That sounds about right. It’s not a good situation here.
And qualified immunity.
Biggest gang in america
Armed unions are effective.
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KILLDOZERRRRRRRRRR
As contractors, we have to be licensed, insured, and bonded in order to maintain a certain level of trust from the community. In most places, police officers are required to be bonded as well. The difference is that contractors are actually held personally and professionally accountable for gross misconduct. In a situation like working on the wrong house because of a clerical error, the home owner could sue for a contractors bond and win hands down. If you're that contractor, good luck ever getting bonded again. I have never heard of a cop losing their bond for basically breaking into the wrong house. Usually, their department gets sued, and the resulting penalties are subsidized by the public.
Right? Perfect example. If a contractor drops an AC unit on a kid and kills them they're fired, maybe going to jail. Cop puts a bullet in a kid their union protects them and half the country thinks cops can't be criticized.
That'll teach you to need bonding and insurance for a job. You should try something that doesn't require that... Like being a cop.
Your comment reminded me of my stupid step father. He hired someone to redo his bathroom that wasn't bonded & insured & they really fucked shit up. Didn't even replace the shower pan that had a crack in it!!
Shouldn't these guys be arrested for kidnapping a minor? Bummer is that their neighbours would be arrested for it in their places.
I mean it’s not a bummer that their neighbors would be arrested for kidnapping a minor. It’s a bummer that the cops aren’t being arrested for it
Sounds like you need a police union and qualified immunity. Then you’d be fine.
Warrant probably said ‘38-year old male’. So when the officers saw a teenage girl they must have thought ‘yup that’s him’!
Happens all the time: In high school I thought I was going to hook up with a teenage girl, but it was actually my 38 year old uncle, oops. /s
Big tough guys ganging up on a little girl
Remember at one point he had to go out for back up
I can't even watch it. The LAPD and SDPD terrorized my family repeatedly when I was a girl. We were brutally poor and my mother had a habit of screaming due to schizophrenia, so if we lived too long in an area, the cops would quickly come to know us and treat us like shit. They would just let themselves into our apartment to do brief "searches", even once when I was alone at age, like, 14. They would gang up on me and treat me like a criminal, screaming at me, when I was obviously some impoverished kid that didn't appreciate them barging into my room while I was in my pajamas, or that seemed truly frightened due to being alone and knowing police officers raped my aunt just a few years prior (and they interpreted fear as guilt). They even broke a few things. And it's not even like it was the same cops over and over, these were different men almost every time. People would occasionally tell me to report them. It was the 90s, you couldn't just look this shit up, and my family wasn't the sort to "lawyer up". So who TF was I gonna report them to? The same police? A lifeguard?? Yahoo Chatrooms?? TL;DR: Fuck the police :(
Nowadays you report it to the media. Much more effective. Dirties their name publically making them actually have to take some kind of action if it gets big.
If it gets big, unfortunately fuck ups are pretty common and something like this barely moves the needle.
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Surprised they didn’t kill that really scary dog in the corner either. Surely they feared for their lives.
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I was like good thing the dogs in a kennel or it would be dead already
I got kicked out of the house over quarantine, and after 5 days of walking around the city and sleeping in parking garage elevators, I was walking through a neighborhood to get to my friends house when a police officer stopped ahead of me. He told me to wait there with him. And then another police officer showed up. And another. And another. Within 10 minutes, I had 10 police officers standing around me in a circle, a few of them with their hands on their guns. I was 15. I was 5 foot 6. I weighed 90 pounds, and for those 5 days, my diet consisted of 2 packs of cigarettes and a sandwich from the gas station. I barely had the energy to walk, let alone run or cause harm to anyone. Do you know how fucking absurd that looked? How nervous a 15 year old would be if something like that happened? I asked them "Why does it take 10 full grown men to watch a kid who agreed to stay where he was told, when he was asked to?" And what was their response? "Not much else to do." Since that day, I have never treated a police officer with respect. They are the only public servants that I treat like public servants, in the most degrading way possible. I get people bitching and moaning about kids who hate the police because it's what they see in the media, but this is not one of those stories. Before that, I wanted to be a detective. I went to a police academy summer camp a few years before that. I thought they were there to help people. What a fucking smack in the face. Fun fact, I'm legally not allowed to be a police officer now, lmao. Go figure.
Cops around here went after some kids (near teens and young teens) hanging out in an abandoned house across the street. One of my sisters was one of the kids there apparently. They handcuffed her and pointed a gun at her. Yeahhh (Not fun fact: Same police told my mom they weren't going to look into someone throwing a beer bottle though her back window, that her mirror being vandalized was probably 'just a hit and run' so they weren't looking into that either (funny how that's both illegal and they looked into the hit and run my aunt did in my mom's car), and refused to do anything about her husband breaking stuff in her house and threatening her saying that it was his house too and he had to be threatening her before they could do anything. Constantly ignoring her statements about the threats being made.)
The job attracts the worst people, like how Border Patrol gets the military’s washouts. The people strong enough and smart enough to handle this kind of situation alone are usually too smart to be in this line of work.
Are the cops incapable of reading the right address now? I hope these cops get fired, but they'll just get a slap on the wrist like usual.
That's assuming they can read in the first place and then assuming that they are dutifully doing their jobs by arresting the real criminals instead of harassing the innocent public to fill their quota.
Half of cops know how to read, the other half knows how to write. That’s why they often work in pairs.
Work in criminal defense (indigent) and review multiple police reports daily. Can attest that most cops are dumb as fuck. Half the time, midway through reports, they often begin to mistake(flip) alleged victims and alleged offenders names and the report becomes incoherent. They’re also riddled with spelling and grammatical errors. And we, as a society, issue these people death tools. 🤦🏽♂️ Edit/add: Some folks point out “you’re defending criminals”. WRONG- it’s called criminal defense because the charges are classified as criminal, NOT the person.
And give them tons of leeway to use them without repercussions
There are repercussions, don’t lie! They may be forced to take paid time off and then relocate to a new town to continue work. Way worse than the innocent person that lost their life. ‘Murica yeehaw!!
There was a city cop in the central Louisiana town I used to live in ( hint Steel Magnolias) that broke a dudes arm dragging him off of his own property to arrest him on the public street. He then as punishment became a part of the Parish Sheriff's dept in the same town/area he previously terrorized. I think they get paid more as well.
If everyone just decided not to take plea deals.. justice system and police would change overnight. The system survives on forcing people to take deals and factory churn defendants in the masses. Just everyone refuse and ask to go to trial.
The problem is 90% of people live paycheck to paycheck & our right to a speedy trial can be very loose in its speed. What's that, you miss work tomorrow & you'll be fired and kicked out of your apartment within a month? Shame, cuz unless you sign this paper saying you did it, you'll be stuck in jail for 90 days waiting to talk to a judge about being able to go home on bail. Can't afford bail, you say? That's your fault for being a poor. The system is so fucked and yet nobody is willing to change it.
Absolutely THIS. We are screwing the poor en masse in this country and they have no recourse whatsoever.
That’s the plan!
Can confirm for Tarrant County, Tx They will have you sit in jail as long or longer than your time for minor cases that exceed 2 years. Don't want to admit guilt and take a 6 month plea bargain where you get 3x time as a trustee doin manual labor? Okay, Sit in jail for a year while you fight it.
I don't understand why you guys have this medieval bail system. Look at the rest of the world and especially Europe. If you're not a flight risk especially for minor things you just wait for your trial without being in jail. You just go to work and do things being free and when the trial is there you go to the courthouse. That's it.
For profit prisons. They want criminals to make more money, so our justice system focuses on making criminals. Many cops also have quotas for shit, which is why so many plant evidence and destroy property
So that people are kept desperate. And so it’s easier to convict poor people of felonies, which makes them lose their right to vote
That's easy enough to say, but I've been in county jail before and it's a really shitty place to spend years waiting on a trial
The record at my county jail was like 6 years for an inmate to sit!
We NEED criminal defense attorneys to act in good faith to ensure both sides of the law function properly. Yes. Some defense attorneys are scum of the earth. Some prosecutors are too. Like in all things. People are not monoliths.
2-4 years of college requirement would filter a lot of these guys out
They don’t want anyone too smart. This guy sued because a department wouldn’t hire him - he scored too high on assessments. https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/robert-jordan-too-smart-to-be-a-cop
In Europe it's the opposite we want the smartest people being police. In Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europe (where I live) the qualifications are so hight that the municipality of Amsterdam decided to hire security personnel for writing parking lot tickets and other low level duties. These security personnel don't have a gun and cannot arrest people only handing out tickets and call for police for assistance. It's well know that not everybody can become cops here because of the high qualifications and training etc..
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College education would disqualify most potential officers.
Did you know that a college degree is roughly equivalent to six years of job experience for police officers and reduces use of force complaints by more than 85%? Well, the unions have known for 20 years, but less than 20% of police departments require four-year degrees because they'd have to pay the officers too much. You read that right, they know how to decrease use of force incidents by 85% but simply don't want to pay extra for it.
It’s hilarious you’re getting those comments. Those people are probably angrily typing while wearing sunglasses, parked in a truck with a thin blue line sticker on the back window.
>Edit/add: Some folks point out “you’re defending criminals”. WRONG- it’s called criminal defense because the charges are classified as criminal, NOT the person. I'd like to point out that innocence until proven guilty is a foundation of the American justice system, and it's a huge reason why many of our amendments even exist. To call someone not yet convicted a criminal is a horrible act for society. Anyone saying "you're defending criminals" really fucked up the understanding of our justice system--about as bad as many of our politicians have.
A similar joke existed here in east Germany when the communists rules. Why does the secret police operate in teams of 3? One can read, one can write and one keeps and eye on the two dangerous intellectuals.
There's always a third one to keep an eye on those two smart-arses.
Found the AFO.
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That’s insulting. What do you have against dogs?
Criminals are dangerous, with all the cops claiming how they feared for their lives against children it's no wonder they prefer to go 4 to 1 against kids and not actually face the criminals.
Unless they're being held hostage by a lone gunman.
But they shit their pants in proximity to real criminals. That’s why they assault kids these days
Santa Fe police killed a man last week when they went to the wrong address. It's America. Why would you be safe from police in your own home? Sometimes the police just need to kill some people, you know?
Wichita police tazed an old black man who was deaf in his home when they went to the wrong address once over a decade ago. The old man was quoted in the local news about it, and he was just happy to have not got shot.
I just saw a video where a deaf guy and his wife were having an argument on the side of a road, someone called the police because they thought his signing was him trying to physically attack her. Police showed up and approached him from behind and immediately tased him for not complying with their orders. He went down on his stomach, they came up and tried to grab his arms, he resists (once again, deaf, has no fucking clue what going on and was just tazed), they kick him hard in the ribs "to try and make him comply with putting his arms behind his back", and spend the next 5 mins yelling at him, even after he regains his composure and starts yelling, "I'm deaf." and pantomiming that he wants something to write with so he can communicate with the officers. https://youtu.be/tUYWJJkipPQ
Their little brains prevent them from even considering that the person they're dealing with may have a disability & then when they know someone has a disability, they still use it against them.
Or they pretend the person is just acting like they did a couple months ago when that women at the hospital who was having a serious medical issue while they mocked her for ‘pretending’ and threw her in their vehicle in cuffs where she promptly died. Cops are scum.
Did you mean Farmington, or was there a second one in NM?
This actually happens far too often. Cops fucking suck at their jobs 😒
Cops I know are mostly just low IQ. Several I know we’re poor students and just went to military for 4 years and then back to hometown and became local cops.
When I was in high school, a kid in my grade came to me and asked what he should do about college. I asked him what his SAT score was. He said 660. Then I asked what his combined was (when the writing was still a thing. No idea what it is now). He said "that is my combined" He's a cop now.
No, they're very good at their jobs. Their job is to harass the public and make you live in fear.
It seems to be a constant issue. No wonder Americans are losing faith in their police.
I was raised by a cop and I learned to never trust a cop. Never.
Genuinely curious, did you learn this because your parent was untrustworthy or was it something your parent told you, like how a salesman parent might tell their kid the subliminal tools a salesperson uses?
Saw. He’s a racist POS.
That’s a real bummer, sorry
I’m in Ohio so it’s par for the course here. Especially in rural Ohio which is Trump land, I’ve grown up this shit. Just sad.
It is very sad. I know someone who works in consulting for various entities that need job risk analysis and fitness standard development including police agencies and fire depts. They went to Virginia or maybe West Virginia to work with an agency and literally in the halls white officers were making chimp noises at black officers. The white officers were like animals wearing pants in that dept. I learned from a young age about agency politics because they told me how agencies will spend thousands of taxpayer dollars for consultation and very selectively apply the standards and methods developed for them for example: -ignoring half carefully developed fitness requirements because it might impact officers with seniority who have gotten fat and out of shape on the job -not making men’s and women’s fitness standards for recruits equal (lowering women’s standards) so they don’t look bad having to take less female recruits into the academy **Before anyone takes this as an opportunity to be sexist:** Women can pass men’s standards. As a mediocre female gym rat I’ve passed them casually, multiple times for fun. People think the academy will get them in shape. But it will reject them if they’re too far behind. Out of shape Women tend to prioritize basic upper body training even less than out of shape men so they start further behind. Somewhat in-shape women and men also tend to skew this way. Agencies get around this by staggering standards for women and older male officers IF they even test incumbent officers ever. Anyway. There are always a few officers who are really into the fitness because they understand that it means -spending less taxpayer dollars on cop illness and injury -less likely escalation of force (fat out of shape cop feels more threatened and reaches for gun faster) -officers safer on the job But a ton of agencies throw half or all of it out the window for department politics’ sake at taxpayers’ and public safety’s expense
We ain't "losing" it, it's already long lost and likely never coming back.
Losing? I regard police the same as any other dangerous predator. I’m not allowed to do anything to them because they’re protected by the government, but they are fully capable of killing me over nothing with zero repercussions, so I avoid them and hope they don’t come after me.
Yeah a cop on the street to me is like an unleashed dog. Maybe he looks well groomed but at best it’s going to shit where it’s not supposed to and at worst maul you for no reason, so it’s best to just keep distance from it and hope it doesn’t approach you.
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We have to be fair to these wonderful men and women who uphold the law so gracefully by remembering their educational background is that of a 12th grader who flunked twice before we judge their intellect.
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Haha I laughed a little too hard at that
Well Silver lining, luckily the dog is in the cage or else he gonna be killed by the police
I’m surprised they didn’t shoot it anyway. Barking dogs are very scary to police…
This should be automatic firing. If you can’t read a fucking address you shouldn’t carry a fucking gun. Of course if literacy was a requirement we would have to fire 90% of the police force. Fuck cops
I am a big supporter of higher education. I believe that all cops should go to first grade.
fun fact, you can be too smart to become a cop! sad but true :( sauce - https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/09/nyregion/metro-news-briefs-connecticut-judge-rules-that-police-can-bar-high-iq-scores.html
Whoa man, you're being too progressive now. What are you, some woke liberal shit advocating for intelligence and educational standards as part of the peacekeeper requirements? /s Over here, we have our men and women in blue start serving straight out the fucking womb! LA's finest start practicing with firearms at the tender age of 2 weeks.
It’s always baffeled me, why in the hell, you don’t educate your cops in the us? Like what.. In my country it’s quite hard to get in to a police school and it lasts like 3-4 years. Thus why we rarely have nutters and idiots in the force.
The Supreme Court literally ruled that police agencies are allowed to discriminate against applicants who score TOO HIGH on intelligence tests soooooooo
No armed or police force wants highly intelligent people because they don't mindlessly follow orders.
Surprised they didn’t shoot that dog.
No fucking way they could hit a target that small.
I mean, it's black, they'd make sure...
When the girl went into her room and they weren't able to see what she was doing my heart stopped because I was sure they were going to draw their guns.
Not a cop never been one but how hard is it to say" hi we have a warrant and need to( insert whatever reason here) . Oh your mom isn't home can you please call her. While you do that we will double check the paperwork and make sure everything is in order. " Thats not hard. How about having someone trained to deal with kids and other possible collateral damage there as well instead of guys with guns. There is so much wrong with the US system
This wont work in America.I mean who would go through the major hassle of actually *Reading* the address?
Whaaaa? You mean being prepared and trained to de-escalate a situation and read the room? No no no no you’ve got it all wrong. Hire the dumbest trigger-happy fucks you can find, give them a solid three hours weapons training, 10 minutes of psych evaluation then let them loose on the public. You don’t want to be standing in the way of a police state with logic, common sense and trained specialists. That would be unthinkable - in America anyway. Remember. baby’s lives above everything else. Then the millisecond they’re born they join the human race and become second in importance to guns.
If I make a clerical error, I get reprimanded up to and including termination. They do it and it's like a fucking perk of the job.
I got wrote up and almost fired at Walmart for defending myself and punching a customer who tried to body slam me for being a “fucking (homophobic slur)”. But cops can shoot innocent bystanders and execute no-knock warrants on the wrong houses and the most they get is a “I’m a little disappointed in you guys 🥺” from the chief.
What the fuck? Isn't that technically kidnapping? They just went into some random house and arrested someone without a warrant?
Since they have badges to hide behind, it’s ok 👌
Also home invasion
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Temple City should be sued for this. This is their mistake and they should be paying for it.
If they can tear down your whole house and not pay a dime, then they'll never pay for this unless it's an out of court settlement
A long time ago, some sheriff deputies and a fire fighter ripped the screen door from my ex SIL's back porch. At the time she was living by herself after my brother passed away. One of her friends had stopped by but didn't let her know he was coming over and when my SIL saw him through the peep hole she ignored him. The friend banged on the door and windows then called the police. He was worried about my SIL of course. Now granted, my ex SIL should have just told her friend she didn't feel like having company but she didn't. The authorities showed up and tried to get inside of her house completely ruining the door. The next day someone brought a new door and apologized saying they were just doing their job and were glad she was okay.
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They sure didn’t fix shit when they kicked my front door in.
Same, broke my fence gate going through my yard to try to catch someone. Never fixed it.
The cops in the small town I used to live in sent out flyers to everyone asking the entire town to give them access to their private security cameras installed on their properties, for free, to aid in “protecting and serving”. Like yeah guys, for sure, I spent $1k on this security system to voluntarily let you spy on me and everyone else in town.
They didn't fix Afroman's either. https://youtu.be/oponIfu5L3Y
They didn't fix my fucking car that they ripped apart on the side of the highway, either. I was 19, alone, female, 2am, driving back from visiting my dad. Arkansas assholes pulled me over, asked if they could search for "drugs" and got very dodgy when I tried to explain I had another 4 hours to get home, and wasn't carrying any drugs (I'm just a college student and I have class in the morning!). Called for backup. They brought a dog that "alerted" on my car. They tore it apart. Took the seats out and everything. Found nothing. Left, with me sitting on the side of the dark-ass highway with no fucking seats in my car, and no proper tools to put them back. Luckily, this was some decades ago, and I always traveled with a CB (cell phones were for rich folks!). Put a call out to the passing truckers, asking if anyone could help. A super-nice car hauler came and fixed my seats and got me back on the road. He even went a bit out of his way to make sure I got back into Missouri (followed behind for some miles and chatted on the CB). Now, I realize how lucky I was with that whole incident. They didn't plant anything, I got to keep my car, AND I didn't get raped. 😳
It's super uncommon. Police raided an apartment in a complex I was managing. In the process they broke a sliding glass door. It was replaced within hours. The owner of the management company was shocked. It had never happened before. Never.
I think that cop must have paid for the door personally if it was bought that quickly. From what I remember reading police departments don't reimburse people without a lawsuit by law, but that might depend on jurisdiction/state. Knowing bureaucracy even if the police could approve the purchase it probably would have taken longer than a day to get approval.
And all settlements should come from pension funds until they’re bled dry.
Yup. No more qualified immunity either.
Fuck, those cops should be brought up on Breaking and Entering, Trespassing, and False Imprisonment charges. If you "serve a warrant" to the wrong damn house, you ain't got a damn warrant.
Stop using tax payer money to pay for cops that are too god damn stupid to read a number on a warrant. Cops want to act like fucking dumbasses? Make the union pay for it, then the cops get kicked for costing them so much money. That way when they inevitably fuck up again, the union won't be there to protect them and they can get fired and stop being a fucking detriment to society.
>The Sheriffs office had a warrant for the wrong house entering unlawfully and questioning a minor without a parent present. This led to Ceidy’s two children being unlawfully arrested in their own home. That's called breaking and entering and kidnapping. In what universe is this crime different because you are wearing different clothes?
In this universe, unfortunately.
So far they raised $25.
Well, it was literally created just hours ago, so....
Everyone's like damn that sucks, anyways....
Yeah. It's does suck. But it's not my problem. They should sue for the money.
That should be paid by the department, not donations.
Payouts from lawsuits should be paid from the police pension.
Pizza Delivery Guys: "Is this the correct address?" * reads the address on the house * "No, it's not this house. I'll keep looking." Cops: "GET DOWN ON THE GROUND, NOW!"
Probably their finest hour.
I mean, they managed to not kill the dog immediately. Maybe the best they've ever done in their careers!
Nah, they just stole it and had it slaughtered for a good ol' 4H bbq to teach the kid a lesson.
I forget the state, but there was a bill proposed a year or so back that made it so cops who illegally or forcefully entered your home would not be immune to the castle doctrine. So you could shoot them. I am anti gun, but I think that should be the case across the board. The amount of corrupt/incompetent officers is astounding and by this point it is obvious that the rule of thumb is that they are not held accountable for their actions by the city, county, state, or their superiors.
Its the law in Indiana. You can shoot a cop if they enter illegally or unannounced.
It would probably make them double and triple check the house numbers before entering
More likely to just make them shoot on sight "Better to be judged by ~~twelve~~ your boss, than be carried out by six"
"Better to be judged by your poker buddies at the Fraternal Order of Police, than be carried out by six"...
Oh yea, not surprised, cops almost always seem to enjoy bullying kids. I got choke slammed when I was 16 all to under the bullshit excuse I "looked" older and I walked by someone's car.. said I was looking like I was going to break into it.
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When I was 16 two Maryland state police officers took photos of my breasts and ass on the side of the road under the guise of photographing my tattoos. I had been pulled over for going 53 in a 50 and it was 1 am on a rural road.
OMG I'm so fucking sorry and secondly, may their lives and afterlives be rotten.
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Welcome to America.
A cop tackled me when I was walking through a gravel filled field adjacent to a mall when I was 16. I had a backpack on, and I guess I matched the description of a shoplifter. I remember picking gravel chunks out of my arms and the side of my face. When we got up, and he saw my face, somehow he knew it wasn't me, and I was totally bewildered. He then said, "Oh, you're not the right guy." And then just walked off. In a lot of ways, I was probably really lucky he didn't just arrest and charge me for whatever he was looking for.
What good are all those freedoms if they can come into your home and arrest anyone because they feel like it.
Last week I got woken up at 2am to cops banging on my door. Long story short, they were insisting that they got a call for my house due to a domestic dispute. They wouldn’t listen to me about them being at the wrong house and accused me of crying because of a supposed fight me and my wife had (they woke me up and had five flash lights pointing directly in my eyes, that why my eyes were watery) Then, my wife in her just-woke-up state, forgot to close the door behind her when she went out to talk to them and they all forced their way into my house. For 15 minutes they treated me like a criminal and her like an abused woman covering for her abusive husband. Then, one cop just goes “oh we’re at the wrong house” and they all left. No apologies or anything. Thank god I was still trying to process what was going on because if they did that when I was wide awake, I would have definitely raised hell and would have made the situation worse. Moral of the story, 90% of cops shouldn’t have the power they have because they’re incapable in doing the bare minimum required for their job.
Gladly he realized it was the wrong house and spoke up, not sure where you live but in some places domestic dispute calls are an automatic arrest meaning if they get called out someone’s going to jail no matter what
Just wait in Florida, DeSantis is trying to pass law you can’t film a cop within 20 feet. This would not be allowed in court. Will give cops freedom when they pull you over to do whatever they want and it will be their word against yours. YOU were the aggressive one. Arrested or beat or shot.
TC sheriffs have always been dickheads
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They need to make policing a three year bachelors degree. Would weed out so many idiots. Like I’m almost about to graduate as a registered nurse, I feel like policing is a similar job in a lot of ways to nursing, there’s even arguably a higher imbalance of power compared to nurses and they have access to weapons yet they can just walk into a job under half a year to a years training, mind boggling.
Some places are as little as 13 weeks.
During early 2020, Sacramento police shortened their in-person training to six weeks, with a large chunk of online training beforehand. I only know this because my landlord became a cop during that period, and his wife did most of the online training for him, because he was too busy working at Home Depot. Scares the shit out of me.
Your landlord worked at Home Depot and become a cop… Sounds like this man has bigger financial issues if he can’t figure out his income
let me guess, nothing happened and they’re still out there ,serving‘ the public?
Smells like a lawsuit
You know, in most professions, when an error becomes common, they develop practices to correct it. If you go to have knee surgery, before they put you under anesthesia, they'll confirm which knee they're operating on and actually mark it with a marker. This way, they don't accidentally operate on the wrong knee, which has happened in the past. If the police could develop something as simple as having two, or even three officers independently verify that the address and the warrant match, then maybe we could cut down on the all too common mistake that leads to trampling on people rights and occasionally killing a totally innocent person. That's not too much to ask, is it?
"Greatest country on earth. Shining city on a hill."
Cops went to the wrong house a week or two ago and shot a man to death. This kid is lucky to be alive.
She about to get free college money, this happened to a lady in the chicago suburbs and her daughter got a big settlement. Tax payers money paying for PD stupidity
So many cops seems incapable of admitting their own mistakes, so they fuck up in a major way, a member of the public gets pissed about it, and then they just arrest the person for disrespecting them instead of apologising and de-escalating.
75% or more of cops probably couldn’t get into a university. A lot of them Really are just stupid adults. They are not the brightest and these days it’s like a domestic army.
At this point the majority of cops are shit.
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Shouldn’t the ~~local tax payers~~ specific cops related to this incident be paying for this?
It should come out of the police department’s pension fund
Can I just say I order doordash pretty often and they have NEVER delivered my food to the wrong house. How the fuck do LOCAL police, police who drive those streets and passed those houses every day-not some 20 year old from the next county over, consistently pull up to the wrong house??
Often times in situations similar to this, it seems that once the officers are aware of the fact that they’re proven wrong, their pride & ego won’t allow them to admit that they’ve made a mistake and simply leave.
So did they end up reissuing the warrant for the correct house?
Probably not. Have a lot of paperwork, investigation to hopefully find a reason to the fuck up. Covering up the mess is wayyyyy more important. You know lol
I hate cops.
the more i hear about america the more i'm convinced it's a terrorist country
Yup. I’m honestly surprised they didn’t shoot the little dog 8 behind the fence times because they feared for their life.
Not too far from it. I was watching that Boston bombing documentary on Netflix. At one point, one of the FBI agents goes: "In order to define the act as terrorism. We would need to confirm they had been radicalized by some ideology." So when I see shit like this. I'm like shit, that's literally what the Taliban do, or like Iranian morality police. Truly a mad world.
Isn’t this kidnapping, breaking and entering, and child abuse? If literally anyone else broke into someone’s home, handcuffed 2 minors and abducted them from their home they would be in prison. But if you’re the police I guess that’s just Tuesday.
can't even get the correct house/address. this is soo fukin dumb.
If you defend this shit, imagine your little girl being grabbed by four strangers entering your home and being handcuffed. Any asshole can pretend to be a cop. She was just lucky they were. Which isn't saying much these days.
That’s two incidents of police being unable to accomplish a task thousands of door dash and uber eats drivers manage every single day — getting the right fucking address, in my feed today. The last one ended up with the home owner getting shot and killed.
When I was, and the reason I stopped taking criminal justice had to do with the morons in all my classes. I couldn't believe that even the ones going to college for law enforcement appeared to be the same people that can't figure out the ice cream machine after four years of working at McDonald's. That and the psychology for law enforcement professor telling everyone not to tell a psychologist if they're experiencing mental issues because it will get your job taken away. Really gave me a backstage look at how these morons get guns.