Its time to stop thinking of cops as big boys with guns and think of them more like dogs with guns that fire when they bark.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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Cops are among the easiest people to spook. They're like bunny rabbits, but with guns.
Other triggers include
- removing something from a pocket especially when asked
- being brown
- running, for any reason
- Owning a dog
- not being white
Agree on all points. LMAO! May I ask a favor? Can you tell me if you can see this comment? I have a sneaky suspicion something is wrong with my account.
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Much as we like to joke about it, to me this hints at the bad state of the mental and emotional care system.
For cops in particular in this case, but of course the population at large, too. A person who is armed - and in the US that can be everybody 2 years or older basically - should not be left without help to get into a situation where they can be this delusional and on edge while carrying a gun. People need help. Medical help.
Mental health treatment, for both cops and soldiers, should be mandatory. If we are going to give them the power of life and death over another human being, they should have as much support as possible.
Personally, I think all police should be required to attend a mental health session at least once a month (even more, if they choose to). What happens in that session is entirely down to them. Hell, set up some games consoles, a TV and a small library. If they want to turn up and just read a book for an hour, that's fine! However, they should be required to be in the room, with a trained professional.
This would go a long way towards helping them. They can vent off, get some constructive tips, chill out, or fully engage. All would help. It also helps nip things like PTSD in the bud. Shooting a teen, because they drew a gun on you, and watching them die, is still watching a teen die by your hand.
In a perfect world, it would be a good exit path for retiring officers. Train them up, and they also know what it's like to be in their shoes.
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Whats really bad for cops is if they get mental help that is used as proof they are unfit fir duty. Yes a cop getting help to better handle their job is treat like a bad cop.
Add to that most cops are trained to always be on red alert. Always be ready and willing kill anyone at anytime. Everyone not a cop is an enemy soldier.
Whats really bad for cops is if they get mental help that is used as proof they are unfit fir duty. Yes a cop getting help to better handle their job is treat like a bad cop.
This is even a far wider problem.
People readily accept someone has say, a broken leg and goes to the hospital and will be out for a few weeks.
But have a mental problem? Going to the clinic for a few weeks? People look at you really weird and start distancing. Which is ridiculous, mental issues should not be as stigmatized as they are, an illness is an illness, whether pathological or psychological.
What did he actually shoot at though? He had no verified target. Did he just empty his clip wildly into thin air? What was he pointing his gun at?
Edit: holy shit, he shot at his own cop car with a suspect in the back
He didn't shoot at the cop car, this article is VERY back the blue, bootlicking fuckery.
Him and his partner unloaded on the man they just arrested in the back of the car because they thought he shot at them. Luckily he wasn't killed.
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Clearly he was confused, and also a pokemon..
How effective was it?
Roland Pryzbylewski in the house!
Detective Gregg's?
Officer Pryzbylewski shot the wall, lieutenant.
this feels like a good time to mention that the police fought a legal battle for the right to institute a maximum IQ among recruits
Youn ment minimum iq right
Non
it's common knowledge that if you score too high on the police IQ test they won't hire you, because you're less likely to follow insane orders.
Similarly in most military systems they’ll test you and place you accordingly. If you end up on a turret. You are the dumbass. Sorry.
No. Cops are legally required to be stupid.
So, I went to the bad place at the bad place, and the cops there were totally meme-ing on the event and seemed to agree he was an idiot and shouldn't be a cop. That was a pleasant surprise, I'll admit.
I also saw a bit of defending his "perception" of what was happening though. It's weird that they forget perception is subjective when the person isn't wearing a uniform though. :shrug:
Stole a couple of the memes with absolutely no guilt about it though.
Umm the article left out if the person inside the car survived.
He did. They missed him.
They missed after unloading an entire clip into an unmoving car that had a handcuffed suspect??
I mean that's great to hear, but this entire story is so confounding.
Cops (as a near universal rule) are not good shots. Most of them get tested once/twice a year, and the chief wants to check off the ‘qualified’ box for the students, and go home. So they get a watered down test, and Johnny Law here magdumps and thankfully misses everyone despite being at close range with a red dot sight - the closest there is to cheating for pistol shooting
This same perverse incentive structure exists for most LEO training if done internally by the department. So the public gets cops like this guy
FBI and Sky Marshall’s are the only two agencies that actually make sure all of their agents know how to shoot
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Thank you. I was wondering if they were ok
Officer Chicken Little reporting for duty.
Deputy Barney Fife.
Do you know how loud a gunshot is..? And he thought the sound of an acorn hitting the car was a shot fired by the suspect inside the car he's standing next to? Either he's lying or he's remarkably stupid, either way he should not have a gun.
He's definitely PTSD and not responding rationally to the situation. This person is not competent to hold a firearm.
The suspect in the car was known to have at least one pistol with a suppressor. That being said, the guy was given a cursory pat-down and could not have had a suppressed firearm on him unless it was in him.
A properly setup suppressed pistol fired from within a vehicle would be fairly quiet, but would sound nothing like an acorn bouncing off a car and you would know if you were hit.
He has no business being a cop if he freaks out when an acorn bounces off a car and taps his vest. Luckily the suspect was not physically harmed and the cop resigned. Hopefully the suspect gets a nice payout from the city.
I think I read that the noise reduction from a suppressor is actually pretty minimal, and it's still in the same "incredibly painfully loud" ballpark as a regular gunshot
Depends. As long as the bullet doesn't break the sound barrier, a gun can be made reasonably silent with a good suppressor, to the point where the sound of the semi-automatic mechanism operating is louder than the gunshot itself. If the bullet is supersonic, then it will still be painfully loud.
They did test them on mythbusters.
For hand guns they work really well ans aren't much louder then a nail gun.
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That suspect was also handcuffed, not just hanging around.
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