People want the cops there when they are in trouble and to leave them alone when they are not…and good on them.

Like people are supposed to feel bad about not wanting to be abused by police. Like we are supposed to take it all back. No no you can beat us. We’re sorry for speaking out?

Colin Kapernick is going back to the NFL. This needs to be resolved by all parties coming to the table and acting like adults.

Link, please re: " nation-wide police strike on crime-fighting"

Bari Weiss confirms the LAPD stand down, with direct quotes. They are doing this on purpose and trying to show BLM a lesson.

She has direct quotes from the force. The official basically said enjoy policing your own crime because we aren’t going to do police work to prove a point. Seems illegal to me.

I realize that the cops feeling were hurt but they need to get back to work. It’s like a free for out there while they are on strike.

Why do you think there is so much crime? Because the police are intentionally fanning the flames.

OP=R1=R2

I hate the way the media treated that poor police woman who accidentally shot that thug trying to run away from the cops in his car. I don’t blame cops for saying fuck you.

Look at r6 doing more detective work in the last 5 min than the LAPD has done in the last year.

The point is it’s ok to want both of those things stated in the headline.

It’s ok to want the cops when you need them and not want them to harm innocent people. That is just fine. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

R7 so they should collect a paycheck for not working? Or do you mean you’re ok with them resigning?

I’m sure you don’t mean that shine should be burglarized or murdered because someone hurt their feelings?

*shine = someone

It’s not ok for cops to say that to their respective constituents. They have to protect and serve or else what are they being paid for? I’m confused as to why someone would encourage a police force to stand down and not do it’s job bu procuring the public. They are paid with taxes. So you think we should pay taxes to people who refuse to do police work?

No wonder crime seems to be on the increase.

R4, that's a link to a Bill Maher thread and I'm not dredging through the whole thing to find a quote.

One other source besides Bari Weiss, please. From a newspaper or magazine or something along those lines.

*protecting

R13 they are not exactly running to the press with this. But she confirmed on live television that the LAPD is standing down and intentionally not policing crime. It’s there on the record for the world to see it. You can pretend it doesn’t exist but it does. There is no ambiguity about it. Take a look around in every major city they are doing this.

[quote] Bari Weiss confirms the LAPD stand down, with direct quotes. They are doing this on purpose and trying to show BLM a lesson.

Bari Weiss is also the moron who screams free speech after she demanded a professor be fired for saying something negative about Israel. She’s a religious lunatic.

OP Copsucker

When I think of corrupt and crooked cops, LAPD is the first that comes to mind.

"Defund the police" has caused a lot of problems.

That phrase was wrong.

[quote] That phrase was wrong.

Why? They literally want it defunded and done away with. It is what it is.

Even if the cops do their jobs and arrest people, it's for nothing if the crimes aren't prosecuted.

I come from a family of cops and I really fear and feel for them. It's a terrible time to be a cop in America.

Let them live without the cops for awhile. Let the social workers and "community policing" (It's called "the mafia") commence.

Tired of the anti cop rhetoric.

Cops are fucking scum.

When I think of corrupt and crooked cops, I think "corrupt and crooked" are redundant since we're talking about cops.

This is why they had to send in the national guard to Montgomery.

A daughter of a cop once said never to speak to cops because her dad one out of ten was bad. If you talk, you have a ten percent chance of getting screwed.

Cops have chosen to side with their own, including the dirty ones. They could have united in a condemnation and reform movement after Rodney King, George Floyd, etc. But they didn’t.

R17 are you saying that the op headline is unfairly in favor of police? Huh?

Do you struggle with reading comprehension?

R7, cat got your tounge?

Anyone who uses "woke" as a descriptor without a sense of irony is a leading sign of vaginal odor and retardation. OP, you might want to get yourself checked out.

Corrected:

[quote] Using "woke" as a descriptor without a sense of irony is a leading sign of vaginal odor and retardation. OP, you might want to get yourself checked out.

This is a silent strike. They want to keep their paychecks.

R29 didn’t even read the post.

It seems like all the police have just vanished.

[quote] People want the cops there when they are in trouble and to leave them alone when they are not…and good on them.

The problem with that is that most of the time when you are in trouble and want the cops, the other person wants to be left alone. Take George Floyd example, and what was done to him was wrong. I'm sure George Floyd wanted to be left alone, but the shop keeper he had just allegedly passed counterfeit money to was in trouble and wanted cops involved. It is a balancing act of rights and responsibilities. And, I think it is clear we haven't trained officers how to correctly balance the scales.

I wonder if the nationwide law-enforcement strikes included the precinct that “responded” to the Texas shooting.

Or the PA shooting for that matter.

Where are all the police these days? Every single department must be in strike, not just the majority of them.

This is dangerous. Police need to get back to work.

Why was George Floyd still in the parking lot tripping balls when the police arrived? It all could have been avoided if he had just left instead of staying the parking lot with his tweaking ass!

R35 The department in Texas were just piss poor excuses for law enforcement. I mean being afraid of getting shot, so instead you allow a gunman to just kill children? I'm sorry I don't want cops to die, but if you are a cop, sadly it can be a requirement. A firefighter wouldn't be any good if he was afraid of getting burned. Cops are supposed to run towards danger not hunker down and hide.

The only words we should be posting are “gun control now”. No more, no less. YES, they are on silent strike, duh. But they want us to start trying to unravel that ball of yarn instead of the real prize which is called *gun control* mother fuckers. No more bullshit. We want fucking gun control and we will shut this whole mother fucker down until we get it. I don’t give a fuck anymore.

Do you people believe the claims now?

Clearly there is a nationwide police strike going on. They’re just being coy about it.

Is there anybody left that needs more evidence? Look around you. Open your eyes.

Police have never been about fighting crime. Only the protection of personal property.

Hollywood is responsible for the mess we are in, for decades of painting cops as respectable instead of the glorified bounty hunters and standover men that they are.

R38 If the police aren't willing to do the job they have now, what makes you think they will enforce new gun laws?

If you don’t see the police strike you’re blind. Sorry. Wake up and see with your eyes.

The police quote from the LAPD chief says it all. They are “withdrawing”.

That is the same thing as a strike.

Notice the speeding deaths are up.

Car wrecks are up. M

Those two alone prove the strike but there is also the increase in all crime.

When the cat is a way, the mice will play.

This is an order from on high as payback for BLM.

Cameras for everyone. Transparency. Protects the police as much as the perps. I wouldn't want to be an officer of the law because it's very dangerous. Physically dangerous and psychologically scarring. They continually see the worst in humanity, on the daily. Our lives would be so much worse without them. People talk a stream of bullshit, cameras don't lie.

It’s a police officer job. They are dangerous by nature.

If you want safety go be a librarian.

R4, if they're not going to do their jobs, clean house or at least slash their bloated wages and take away their pensions and benefits.

I'm confused, gun control for law enforement? Or right winger, police not wanting to give up their personal collections of semi automatic weapons. Police, in the line of duty, should be armed to the max, with tazers being the used before guns.

R45 exactly what are they being paid for?

Will we get detailed accounting of county, city and state law enforcement agencies that for loads of Covid cash and no oversight during the last two years?

That would be interesting to see.

Where is all that money going?

You need to ask these questions of your local and regional law enforcement agencies.

Follow the money.

Police departments were usually penalized for rising crime rates. What ever happened to that?

These speeding rates/deaths are off the charts.

And yet the media is mum as usual.

These police departments are taking this money, giving themselves huge raises and then “withdrawing” as per the LAPD chief.

That is the model.

We need to get it the bottom of where these funds are going since there is no police work going on anymore. These departments are pitiful. It’a racketeering. Big time stuff.

[quote] Where is all that money going?

They spend tens of millions in high-tactical militarized equipment and gear. A fat lot of good that did at Uvalde...

[quote] These police departments are taking this money, giving themselves huge raises and then “withdrawing” as per the LAPD chief.

And yet a lot of people think the police are underfunded, and the solution to all of life's problems is to throw more and more tens of millions of dollars at them.

[quote] This is all coming from the top. Don’t blame the individual officers.

. . . but . . . but . . . we were only following orders.

It’s very simple. Let me sum it up for you.

Assault = CRIME

Smoking weed = ARREST NOT NECESSARY

Rape = CRIME

Gay sex in a bathhouse = ARREST NOT NECESSARY

Shoplifting = CRIME

Jerking off in a video booth = ARREST NOT NECESSARY

Maybe cops would be appreciated more if they could get the above through their skulls. Quit targeting people who aren’t bothering anyone and ruining their lives.

I think cops have good intentions initially. But constant exposure to danger and scumbags takes it toll. I work in an office environment and want to beat someone's ass daily. I can only imagine what emotions a cop goes through.

*some* cops have good intentions initially, but they don’t get very far. Bad apples spoil the barrel.

I can’t wait for the rank and file cops who start to blow the whistle on this crap. They didn’t sing up for this strike. They didn’t sign up to sit by and watch crime fester to prove a point.

They have to live in these communities and work in them and they are dangerous because of the police strike.

Well look at portland. I wouldnt move there if you paid me.

Portland is a good example of the police strike on steroids. they don’t do police work anymore.

They now only target citizens who want one kind of change or another. No more neighborhood police work which lowers crime. The police departments stopped doing that and have completely “withdraw” while still taking loads of federal cash and dividing it amongst themselves.

Has anyone noticed the uptick in crazy, unchecked drivers?

How about every other car having no license plate?

This is a result of the nationwide police strike.

The cops are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. It is a thankless job and the public behave like ungrateful children. Most of the people in law enforcement are not out to get you, despite what opportunists like BLM want is to believe.

Where I live cops commit felonies by frequently manufacturing evidence and openly sell schedule 1 drugs in gym locker rooms with impunity. Monkey see, monkey do, folks. And I’m a conservative, btw.

How do they get huge amounts of government money and then refuse to do any of the work paid for?

Isn’t that illegal?

Don’t they have to sign a contract or something for the money? To provide services?

We need to reform police funding and tie it to performance. What’s wrong with that?

Conservatives love to give public services private sector characteristics so we must insist that police departments are funded based on performance.

Isn’t that a perfect solution?

They lost also pay back they money that they didn’t use to fight crime in 2021/2022. They do not get paid for the ongoing strike period.

*must

R61, what I have seen over the years is two things. Back in the 70's 80's and 90's significant reforms were put in place. They were hard won and the police unions fought them every step of the way. Among these reforms we re hiring practices. Too often we had "legacy" hires where the whole family was in law enforcement, so you get out of high school and you join the force. These practices made it difficult to make local police departments reflect the communities they served. The cops used to function as, and were perceived as an occupying army.

With reforms we were able to integrate the local police departments and begin hiring more men and women. But even more important was that education and training was emphasized. Promotions were no longer just based on seniority but also on abilities. So we had a better educated, better trained police department. We had community policing too. We were getting there. But somehow in the Bush43 years a lot of that fell by the wayside. Now we once again have cops who shoot first. We have cops who are not well educated, and we have a lot of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan who suffer from PTSD.

There is not nearly enough training or support for cops. Their classes on de escalation, for example, or on diversity training are laughable. Cops who police in neighborhoods with large Muslim, Middle Eastern populations, or large Latino populations are often at a loss to understand what's going on, and looking at a Black neighborhood as a monolith, and going in there with a bunch of assumptions makes cops ineffective. In my city we have a large number of Black people who are from the Carribbean. We have Africans. The youth are having trouble assimilating so they join gangs. And then there's meth, and other drugs.

So when people first spoke about "defunding police" it is not literally defunding. It was reallocation of resources. That phrase has been taken and redefined by Republicans to use as a scare tactic. What it originally meant was that we now require men and women who are not equipped, or trained or educated to do it, to function in ways that are way above their pay grade. We need to look at all the aspects of policing and see how we can improve and get better and maybe use some resources to hire different kinds of community supports in situations instead of requiring men and women who are only focused on use of force to maintain order.

We have a dangerous number of cops on steroids and even meth. They are dangerous and mentally unstable and violent.

We have a dangerous number of cops on steroids and even meth. They are dangerous and mentally unstable and violent.

We have a dangerous number of cops on steroids and even meth. They are dangerous and mentally unstable and violent.

We have a dangerous number of cops on steroids and even meth. They are dangerous and mentally unstable and violent.

We have a dangerous number of cops on steroids and even meth. They are dangerous and mentally unstable and violent.

We have a dangerous number of cops on steroids and even meth. They are dangerous and mentally unstable and violent.

We have a dangerous number of cops on steroids and even meth. They are dangerous and mentally unstable and violent.

Well I don't know how that happened. My apologies.

Can somebody tweet this guy and tell him that the LAPD has gone on record saying that they will be “withdrawing” from Police work to punish the BLM protestors?

Why isn’t this bigger news. This guy doesn’t even know that.

I don't disagree that cops are laying back a bit, as a way of protest....but R21 is right. How many times are arrests made, only for the criminals to be released back onto the street by idiot judges? Also, DAs are soft on crime, so not to offend certain demographics. It's a shit show all around that needs to be stopped.

R76 a lot of what cops used to do was police work. It’s about deterrence as much as anything. It’s a system.

The cops walked away and the DAs have NO EVIDENCE to prosecute. Cops are supposed to give them the evidence.

How can you prosecute a crime with no evidence?

Stop repeating deplorable talking points on here. The DAs have to run again. The cops don’t. They do what they want.

R76 has no idea how the justice system works. Typical low info type that reads something on Facebook and they just repeats it with no original thoughts of their own.

The cops are on strike.

Please remind Republican scumbags of this while they try to blame democrats.

I need to hear more of this.

“cops are laying back a bit”

Isn’t this illegal? Don’t they have some duty when they take local, state and federal cash?

If no police work, how do they justify the free money?

Imagine going to work and instead of doing your JOB, you walk around slapping people and generally just act like a dic. When your boss calls you on it, you whine that you're being unfairly picked on and can't work under these conditions, so you're just going to sit at your desk and collect your paycheck.

That's what the police are doing right now. And we're letting them because the press and politicians have spent decades conditioning us that they are above reproach.

Oh, and the reason we can't "force" the police to do their jobs is because SCOTUS said we have no right to that.

Why isn’t this a top 3 campaign issue for democrats?

Republicans are getting away with blaming crime on democrats.

How is this happening? Dems need to hot them hard in the police strike. Many Americans sense the strike, as do most all recent victims of crime. They can tell you the cops are on strike.

Why can’t the dems be clear about this? The cops are on record. They are on strike and have said as much.

The DA thing is a ruse.

I’m not hearing enough opposition to this fake narrative that cops are working hard while the DAs just toss out their cases.

DAs have gone on record saying that they are not getting any evidence from cops. This is because they basically are setting the DAs up to fail on purpose.

They want crime to be high.

The media is useless on this issue. They have printed countless stories about rising crime and not a peep about the police strike.

Even when you have the LAPD chief on record saying they are “withdrawing”.

They certainly didn’t withdrawal their huge, inflated budgets. What are they doing with all that money?