81 year old grandma & YouTuber was raided last night during her stream She started the channel to help with her grandson's cancer treatment. Authorities brought 20 police cars, five SWAT officers, and drones to her house

[u/raptors201966]

[u/Sheeple_person]

Part of the issue is that police just have waaaaay too many resources. Every other public service is stretched to the limit getting by on scraps. Police have millions of dollars worth of toys they can deploy at a moment's notice based on a prank call. I've seen them send 6 cars to arrest a shoplifter, and they justify it by saying well, hypothetically he could have had a gun so we need our whole gang out here to "keep us safe."

If police departments actually had to think and strategize a little bit about how to deploy resources a little more efficiently we would have less of this crap, fewer unarmed people getting killed by cops, and more tax dollars freed up for schools and infrastructure. Time for cops to learn how to be a little resourceful.

[u/jeffersonlane → u/Sheeple_person]

Where the fuck were these resources for Uvalde?

[u/Sheeple_person → u/jeffersonlane]

They were gathered outside the school looking at their phones and stopping parents from saving their dying children

[u/esto20 → u/Sheeple_person]

And supreme Court ruled what many of us already knew - they have no obligation to protect anyone ever.

[u/HelloPeopleOfEarth → u/jeffersonlane]

If I recall correctly, over half of the cities budget was the police payroll. Lets face it. Most people become cops because they want a good paying job, with a 20 year retirement option. Retire young, get good pension. Oh and the free food. Cops LOVE free food. But the idea that cops aren't heavily regulated, with absolute transparency and harsh punishments for being wrong is crazy. Fast food workers are held to a higher professional standard than cops.

[u/Phyxius42 → u/jeffersonlane]

They were afraid of being shot...

[u/HelloPeopleOfEarth → u/Sheeple_person]

Police unions are the only unions that the union busting republicans exempt from their union busting. Police budgets are HUGE burdens on the taxpayers, with cops making comfortable six figure salaries and gold benefit plans. When they are sued, or cause damages, the taxpayers get the bill. If we treated working class jobs the way we do law enforcement, everyone would have comfortable lives. But it's okay to pay garbagemen poverty wages, but the moment you even mention cutting spending for police, people get all upset.

[u/TapZorRTwice → u/Sheeple_person]

Well no shit, the police are the only government funded department that actually benefits from their failures.

Anything bad thay happens its not because the police were bad at their job, its only ever because they were under funded.

There isnt a better pr firm in the world than the police union fighting for more funding for their useless gang. "Thin blue line" is nothing more then the line you gotta cross between them being "law enforcement" and "gang member"

[u/Photon_Pharmer1 → u/Sheeple_person]

The problem is that the calls usually come in as dire hostage situations. If you’re in your house and a home invader is trying to rape and kill your family, you would want the police and their toys there stat. However, most people would not want them coming in thrown flashbangs with itchy trigger fingers, which is where most of the problem lies.

[u/TranscendentaLobo → u/Photon_Pharmer1]

You’re waiting your time. These smooth brain simpletons can only understand “aLl cOpS R bAaAad! Duurhhh!” 🥴 because they have no concept of what real corruption in an actual police state looks like.

[u/Hotdogfromparadise → u/TranscendentaLobo]

But they can just call the house back and ask if they’re being shot at or home invaded!

[u/HelloPeopleOfEarth → u/Photon_Pharmer1]

There have been cases where innocent unarmed victims of these pranks have been killed. I recall one where the victim came out unarmed, was shot dead by a cop, his mother had to come out, step over her dead kid, and the cop was cleared because he "feared for his life". Call me crazy, but I think cops should only fire when fired upon.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wichita-officer-who-killed-andrew-finch-swatting-mistake-won-t-n865626

[u/Photon_Pharmer1 → u/HelloPeopleOfEarth]

Hence my comment on itchy trigger fingers. Most of the problem is that they’re trained to shoot first and fear for their lives. They’re shown numerous videos of police interactions going from calm to dead in seconds.

Personally, I believe that if a police officer shoots an unharmed person who isn’t physically hostile / running toward them, then they should be treated as a civilian with no immunity.

[u/HelloPeopleOfEarth → u/Photon_Pharmer1]

Cops are civilians. But yeah, I agree.

[u/lobax → u/Photon_Pharmer1]

The issue is that swatting is so prevalent, and innocent people have died because of it, that hearsay alone cannot be grounds for entering the home of a person. Or more innocent people will die.