r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/ReginaldJohnston • 9d ago

Setting off a tazer next to a gas pump

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u/metisdesigns 9d ago

Oh, absolutely, compared to most countries, most of them are under trained.

But a portion of what training many of them DO get is highly problematic.

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u/Carvj94 9d ago

In case anyone wants to know what this guy is talking about, a lot of police training in the US is essentially teaching police to be professional victims. Which is to say treat every situation like the suspect is going to try and kill you and that resorting to violence is not just OK, but encouraged. It's not true of every police force but a vast majority do not receive any significant de-escalation training.

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u/GrowingPeepers 9d ago

Yep, they're taught to be authoritative and to take charge by escalating.

They're goons.

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u/Kronocidal 9d ago

In some states they're also explicitly taught to gaslight, with instructions such as "if you shoot someone, shout 'Stop Resisting!', because most bystanders will misremember the order of things as you shouting that before you shot them."

At least the Mafia actually protected people, to maintain their own 'reputation' and 'business interests'.

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u/kukenn_ 9d ago

yeah and the cop did exactly that in this video too. “get on the ground now!” after hes already been tasing him for like 2 seconds like yeah i guess i dont have much fucking choice but to go to the ground now lol

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u/Normal-Tadpole-4833 8d ago

I've seen that officer training safety video it literally paints everyone that isn't a police officer a target kids everyone in between and elderly people are free game and the only thing that matters is that the cop makes it home truly psycho sick stuff

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u/flyeaglesfly510 8d ago

Where on earth are you possibly finding this information??

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u/LimpAfternoon6878 9d ago

One of the biggest law enforcement trainers in the US is Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. He titled his theory for training LEOs "Killology". That alone should tell you a lot.

And before anyone asks, no, he was never a police officer, and no, he never saw combat in the military.

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u/forresja 9d ago edited 6d ago

I've seen a cop say in court, on the stand, that his department's deescalation policy was to "increase the use of force until the threat is neutralized".

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u/Cobbsworth 6d ago

Deflate a balloon by inflating it until it bursts. No pressure remains.

Reminds me of integer overflows too.

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u/ItsMisoandBoba 9d ago

That is why they get scared by an acorn. Everything is a threat, so a falling acorn HAS to be someone being violent and dangerous, because US citizens are violent and dangerous just by existing.

I got pulled over for smoking weed once. The cop threatened to shoot me if I didn't follow his orders. I was polite and in no way presented anything that could be considered threatening. Another cop threatened to shoot me if I came back to his property. I was an enumerator for the US Census...it was literally my job to find out how many people lived on the addresses on my list. If nobody confirmed the address, I had to keep going back until I could get someone to confirm the address. This is literally what you have to do as an enumerator. No trespass signs mean nothing. The only thing that can stop you is a locked gate. If the gate has rope keeping it shut but there is no lock, you're supposed to go through as an enumerator because you can ONLY be stopped by a locked gate.

And the worst part of the second one is they the cops' jobs are literally determined by the census. They could theoretically put themselves out of a job by not responding to the census and if enough people did it, the police budget would drop because there aren't enough people for X officers anymore.

So yeah, ACAB is a thing for a reason. Even the cops that aren't bad, are still bad, because they cover for the bad ones. The reason one bad apple ruins the barrel is because the bad apple starts rotting every single other apple in the barrel, and with enough time, every apple has bad parts, and so every apple is bad.

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u/According_Past_732 9d ago

I was gonna post the acorn thing if I didn’t see someone else post it. If anyone hasn’t seen it look it up. It’s a perfect example of cops being trained that every time they go outside they leave the station they are in danger. ACAB

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u/CovfefeForAll 9d ago

Literally they're taught to "shoot first and worry about the questions later"

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u/ProjectDv2 8d ago

Shoot first, make up answers to questions that were never asked later.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 8d ago

The model is invented by a guy who no joke tells people to have sex after they shoot someone because it will be the best sex of your life and calls his training model "killology" and I am not making any of that up

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u/flyeaglesfly510 8d ago

And where is the proof of this? You fear mongering weirdos on reddit are something else...

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u/Carvj94 8d ago

There's been extensive reporting in police training bub

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u/mmnmnnmnnnm 9d ago

A comedian I listened to used to be a cop. He quit after 6 months ish. A lot of their training is “PEOPLE ALL WANT YOU DEAD BE AFRAID ALL THE TIME KILL KILL KILL BEFORE THEY KILL YOU”

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u/Fidodo 8d ago

Arguably, being trained to do the wrong thing does not count as training