Misconduct on “Cops” ?

Cops used to be HUGE. It was like everyone in the US watched Cops and Americas Most Wanted right after. My smart tv has Roku and old episodes are on often, so I watched a few only to horrified by almost every interaction between law enforcement and the public. By far the majority of these interactions are police harassing people they suspect to have drugs and finding something to call probable cause. I see very little, if any, empathy from any of the officers and in fact, many have stated that they enjoy their job, they find it exciting, and that they love having a whole force backing them up, always. I watched an officer tase a man in the back, the man was not resisting and had his hands in the air; another individual not resisting was tased while standing on asphalt and he his head hit that asphalt so hard he began bleeding, officer covered the gash with a ball cap before his superior told him “good job”; attack dogs have been sent after people in confined spaces, officers yelling “I won’t call him off until you come out”; and much more. Police spend most of their time worrying about drugs. Which is asinine when only 1% of rapes result in a conviction, those are just the reported ones, there’s more where these come from. Political corruption and corporate negligence are entirely without any resistance whatsoever. Not even half of murders are accurately prosecuted, I don’t even think detectives investigate literally anything else.(unless there’s a reward in it for them/department) From all of this I can derive only one conclusion; law enforcement is less about protecting and serving the people who grant them power, but using authority to make the people police do not like pay dearly for officer’s insecurities. Or, they’re just mostly psychopathic sadists who discovered how gain respect whilst tormenting anyone they feel like and getting paid well for it.

Just look them in the eyes. You’ll see what I mean.

submitted by /u/DisillusionedDame
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