e-Hire all the Russ-Thugu-KKKant hate-monger Pigs that can pass a polygraph. I call this the 'Floyd Standard'. Really easy... Pass-Fail. 1, have you ever assaulted a suspect that was already handcuffed? 2, have you ever lied about matters of law you investigated? 3, have you ever stolen anything from a crime scene or suspect? 4, have you ever turned a blind-eye to fellow officers' criminal actions? 5, have you ever planted evidence? 6, have you ever searched someone just so you could touch them? 7, have you ever withheld evidence? 8, have you ever abused your authority as a police officer? 9, have you ever perjured yourself? 10, Have you ever caused or took place in injuring a person under your authority?
@@kevink.7597 although I would like to see that happen, if you are aware of what a polygraph looks for and can control heartbeat (I can, so I know its possible) it is really flawed. Plus being hooked up to a polygraph can cause false triggers, we need a more concrete method, more intensive training and actual repercussions for breaking the law, even detaining someone illegally which is a very very minor case for a lot of things should result in being fired on the spot and banned from being an officer in any department in the country. Cops get away with so much so they have the above the law ego we all hate with a passion
In Denmark we have an organisation called Den uafhængige politiklagemyndighed, DUP, "The independent police complaint authority". They take over ALL cases where a police officer have fired a short. Doesn't matter if anyone was hit or not. They also take over ALL cases where a citizen has died in police custody. Likewise you can make a complaint if you have a bad experiance with the police. With this system none of your colleges will be in charge of the investigation. I think this is a great system. And yes its a paine in the ass for many police officers, but as a former police officer I can tell that I have never been afraid to do my job
As a German speaking person I've just got a stroke while reading the name of your organisation. But thank you, now I'm going to check how it works here :)
When I was a kid, I said I wanted to be a police officer because then I couldn't go to jail. (Keep in mind, I was 5 at the time.) My mom replied, "That's not how it works." But it is.
Police need to be community based and shouldn't be hired from outside of said community. Police should live where they work. When a community knows the person behind the badge and vice versa it helps curtail a lot of these problems.
yeah wow its so fucking scary when you say it like that, its not too far off when even a simple security guard can easily be given a gun in this country...… these cops go to school for 2/less years and barely have to train before they are given a gun and sent out as a public servant....
This Baltimore Cop talks about his experience: ruclips.net/video/lHb23-puvLI/видео.html This man talks about the same police force ruclips.net/video/oGTQ0Wj6yIg/видео.htmlm30s This news report shows it's not just one state: ruclips.net/video/g1qdeSOVvNk/видео.html
i've watched this video before and yet the part where the kids in school are writing "please don't shoot" on a piece of paper still makes me cry every time. This is not ok.
I watched it yesterday without realising it was from 3 years ago. I found out today while searching for the video and not finding it in the recent ones.
@Koski Co to be fair the media again portrayed her as a saint, she wasnt.. they can make up any story they want and 90% of the public is gonna believe it. I wasnt there and you werent there so the outrage over what happened is manufactured.
@@notori0uszig the police literally tried to get her ex boyfriend to implicate her on a crime she didn't commit so her killing could look more justified... there's plenty to hate about that case. The cops don't deserve to walk free. Evidence was also withheld from the grand jury
Honestly the biggest difference between this episode and the one that was released today is that John has become a lot more firm in his positions. There’s no “sometimes it’s ok for the police to shoot video” instead it’s “the police need to be rebuilt from the ground up or else nothing is going to change and innocent people are going to keep dying” and I love it
The phrase, "A few bad apples" is only the beginning. It finishes, "ruins the bunch". So, when you're saying there are a few, you're actually saying that the entire company/system/department is ruined.
Im hev retarrd Haha. In this sense, I don’t think you could say that all black people are a bunch. Blacks do not have special black people responsibilities or any training on the proper way to be black people. And there certainly is no severe consequence to you for their failure to live up to these hypothetical yet nonexistent standards.
Im hev retarrd no you are not, cuz that would be like saying all cops are bad cops after encountering a few bad apples. The argument here is not that “all cops are bad cops.” The argument is that the presence of a few bad cops is a problem for the police system in general, because it causes distrust in an office that we should be able to trust to uphold the law.
@@jaromchristensen5598 Ah sorry, i misunderstood. I thought it was saying that all officers deserve to be labeled as bad just because of a few. I agree, it really does mess with the public's perception of a majority good work force.
In Austria, whenever police officers use their weapons an investigation automatically starts, by a randomly selected police department from a different state, no questions asked. Any shots fired WILL be investigated by a force not related to parties involved. Any use of force by the police, if suspected excessive, may be treated in the same way. Not to say that it fixes all problems and prevents all misconduct by the police, but at least here people aren't routinely shot dead for no reason whatsoever. Would this not be a good method, at least a start? Shots fired automatically starts investigation by a police unit from a randomly selected state, and their investigation is subject to thorough scrutiny by the court.
This where the FBI should be the ones investigating every single use of weapons by police officers. The FBI guys not related to LE agencies (at least in theory).
I still can't believe the Tamir Rice shooter, after knowing that he was a troubled officer, no one got charged. They literally drove straight up to the literal kid, and literally jumped out of the car and killed the kid before the car even came to a stop. It was a straight up drive by shooting and murder.
Apparently, the courts have chosen to send the message that nothing that cop did was actually illegal, so every citizen has a green light to behave that way.
This episode should have never been relevant, but it probably will be for many years to come. So many cops have committed heinous crimes during these protests, and a ton of them won't ever be prosecuted.
Funny that the same people that say "it's just a few bad apples" also fear the "three poisoned skittles in a bowl", so paradoxical, almost like a zen riddle ...
Very true. Lets excuse the horrendously corrupt police department due to "a few bad apples" however lets as a culture and society reject all immigrants and refugees because even a "few poisoned skittles in a bowl" is enough reason to reject the entire shipment! Oliver's observation is spot on.
Made even more so by the fact that the figure is closer to "one skittle in a swimming pool". It's a stupid analogy anyways, for a number of reasons, but that's another story.
+SilentHunterSan you do realize that the US has let in over 700,000 refugees from the Middle East, right? And that of those, less than 5 have even attempted to form a terrorist plot? These are people, not monsters. They're fleeing their country to get away from terrorism, not start it. Not to mention the multiple agencies and years of approval that's needed to even step foot on US soil.
Well.... wasn't apples cloud thing hacked recently? Hard drive is better, at least that way to hack it you would need direct access to the thing, or network access to the thing its plugged into (but they wouldn't put it on a network, that'd be stupid).
Skelebon You do realize you can put it on multiple cloud servers AND also keep it on hard drive? That's the point. Also, icloud wasn't hacked. People got their passwords leaked from other sites and they just happened to use the same password for icloud.
This video explains why people are rioting in Minneapolis this week. I imagine I’ll have to share the video 1 million times before any serious regulatory reforms take place.
Operator 801 That’s what we call a false equivalency. See, a minority doesn’t choose their ethnicity. It isn’t a brotherhood that they were welcomed into and consented to join and are paid for it. There are bad apples everywhere, in every group. It happens. But I know for a fact that I’m not in danger of being caged by minorities when I choose to use drugs. There is no such thing as a good cop. Every single cop has agreed as a matter of employment to enforce unjust laws. Every cop who has ever been part of an arrest for a nonviolent action is a piece of shit for following those orders.
@@myquest666420 Well Mike, you are simultaneously lying through your stupid face, making nonsensical standards, and refusing to take responsibility for your actions. That's NOT a false equivalency, because I never said that the police force is identical to being a minority. I simply re-used a stupid phrase in a way that points out how stupid and non-applicable it is. The fact that not everyone is perfect does not depend on volunteer status or income. The only reliable statement you made: "it happens". Congratulations on not fearing legal backlash when breaking the law. That doesn't make them "good" or even "better" people. It just makes them "not police". You wouldn't need to fear the police doing anything if you just STOPPED BREAKING THE LAW. The only "unjust law" you will ever find, are laws that change depending on the individual. Just because crack is illegal and you disagree does not make it an "unjust law". You have no constitutional right to meth or heroin, those laws are completely just, because the majority of voters have made it so. Your feelings here do not matter at all. There are a great many valid laws beyond violent offenses, and it would behoove you to learn that. Child rape, for example. Burglary and embezelement for further examples. I highly suggest you correct your infantile world view of actions and consequences if you think that you should only ever be imprisoned for violent crimes. But yeah, clearly the police are to blame.
In Canada as an officer if you even fire your gun once there is weeks of paperwork and cross examinations from inside AND outside the police department. Then the cop has to prove in court that he had absolutely no other option but to shoot his/her weapon. I've watched officers in Canada get torn apart in courtrooms and lose their jobs over less than a unjustified use of force. America is the problem, the way you train your police is the problem.
That should be how it is everywhere. These people have control over our lives. They should be under the strictest scrutiny. I only have one caveat though, I hope they're paid well in Canada.
Not paid too well in Canada but they get buy. Canada has their bad apples too but the way Police are trained and selected here they go through so many processes and testings that weed out the majority of them before they ever get a badge.
It's so bizarre to me to find out your cops only have a few weeks of training before starting for real! Here in the Netherlands the lowest level of education you can follow to become an actual cop (so not an assistant) is 2.5 years in a combined theoretical-practical program.
"We want justice for_______ now!!" I'm leaving it blank because there's so many names that could go there and so many more since this aired 3 years ago
actually orchards produce significantly more bad apples than there are bad police proportional. police shootings that result in death is something like 0.01% of the entire police population. imagine scoring a 99.99% on a test and being told you failed.
F Howl + That video of that bastard stepping out from the patrol car and shooting him without warning will never be justified, all they needed was to command over the speaker. He was only Thirteen
"Theyre out to protect you". Meanwhile in reality, the supreme court sided with the police and said the police are not obligated to protect you. So now their motto of "protect and serve" is now. "Serve out punishment".
you think the police are bad just wait till they get tired of this bullshit and all quit. people who live under the power of Drug cartels in Mexico and South America would fucking love to have our police.
@@mayainverse9429 it can be better regardless. We had one woman cop die because she DIDN'T shoot a black man stomping her to death while on pcp because of his race and we've had cops shoot people because of their race. They NEED to be at their BEST. And we're not there!
Just remember, everyone - this episode aired before Trump was elected. Trump is a symptom, and a bad one at that, but we've had these problems for a long time and it's going to take a lot of hard work to overcome them.
You are, of course, correct. However, Trump is not just a symptom, but also a driving factor. It's like the biggest, baddest apple telling all the other bad apples that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" in the middle of an arguably justified period of civic unrest. That's not just being a symptom, that's a driving problem, simply because that's the commander in chief.
@William Hutchinson Why did he get the name sleepy Joe? I've always wondered that. Edit: everyone other than the op answering as if I don't already know. Geez. Way to ruin the bait, I was trying to have some fun. Yes I realize our dictactor Donald the dump Trump gave him the name. But nobody on that side actually has any reason for calling him that other than repeating a naritive they're too stupid to question because they watch too much Fox news. Honestly the stupidity on both sides is staggering. One side wants a stupid immoral dictatorship and the other wants retarded socialism. Both are completely stupid. God help us.
@@aholder4471 Because Trump gives demeaning nicknames all those whom he considers an obstacle to him retaining the throne. In years past, this would have lost him all creditability with the electorate. Now? I guess the tactics used your average eight-year-old are are acceptable.
@@aholder4471 There's no rhyme or reason - as with anything Trump said. Trump has always made up names for his enemies because he can't attack their track record as however bad they are, his is always worse.
That is a honestly a terrible idea. One could argue THAT'S why we have a police violence problem in the first place as it sounds that everyone scared they'll treat their children that way. Just teach them to be respectful and not give them ANYTHING to use against them. Be an INNOCENT, not SKETCHED OUT or AGGRESSIVE. You lose you're ground when you behave like an ASSHOLE no matter what you're a victim of because it decreases you're perceived innocence. Educate them as well. My mom is mixed paralegal and shit scares the shit outta anybody when I call her in. She knows EXACTLY what laws they're breaking and how to get it taken care of. She also knows how to avoid self incrimination and their manipulation of public miseducation. Like how if they ask to come in you can say hell no and you DON'T have to talk to them.
Cat Elkins ...I was not writing about an idea I had... I was saying that it’s bad that we have to do that in the first place and that it’s bad that police don’t inherently have the public’s best interests in mind
@@Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty you suck. That's why we have a police problem? Nice job entirely ignoring the problem bc you read the original comment wrong
Wtf is a "dangerous loss of composure" during weapons training? That's so horrifying I can't even picture it. Crying? A temper tantrum? Shouting racial epithets at the paper targets?
Shooting the fucking sergeant in his fat fucking face 15 fucking times and experiencing a mind-shattering orgasm on the 14th shot... That's a pretty dangerous loss of composure, when you think about it.
I was forced to resign from my dream job as a jail officer for performing CPR on a dying inmate. It was really because it was an election year and word got our I was not going to vote for our current Sheriff. I have applied at 14 different agencies in 2 different states and still don’t work in law enforcement. I now have a lot of disdain and pure hatred for law enforcement officers and spend a majority of my time educating people of their rights and exposing officer misconduct at every chance. Hence my username.
Carlos Camacho thank you. I served my Sheriff with pride and loved everything about my job. Law enforcement is a very grimy business and no matter how big or small the agency, politics and the “good ole boy” system will always prevail. I will never forget the very first question of my first recorded interview for the Sheriff’s Office, they asked “Who do you know here?” I grew up in that county my whole life but didn’t personally know anyone that worked for there, so I was an oddball from the get go. When it came to them trying to fire me over the CPR incident, nobody came to back me even though I had stood up for everyone I worked with in that jail at one point or another. It has taken almost 4 years but the depression and rage are finally starting to subside and I now live across the country and make an okay living as a truck driver. But I’ll never stop telling the truth and exposing law enforcement for the frauds they are.
Gideon Bellamy I was a probationary employee (less than 12 months) and they said that since I didn’t check for a pulse before starting that I didn’t meet the requirements to work there. However, even the American Heart Association says that checking for a pulse is not a required first step. They say that pulses can be too faint to detect and vary from person to person. They say that if no breathing is detected and no response is given from the casualty, you can start performing chest compressions. But because of my status as a probationary employee, they can legally fire me for absolutely no reason and I have no rights and cannot consult with Human Resources to challenge any decision. I was broke and couldn’t afford an attorney but fortunately I was able to meet with the Sheriff and plead with him to allow me to resign.
Wonder why these guys feel "It's just a few bad apples" is a good argument to defend police... but don't use the same thought process when it comes to Immigrants or muslims or ...
Re-Hire all the Russ-Thugu-KKKant hate-monger Pigs that can pass a polygraph. I call this the 'Floyd Standard'. Really easy... Pass-Fail. 1, have you ever assaulted a suspect that was already handcuffed? 2, have you ever lied about matters of law you investigated? 3, have you ever stolen anything from a crime scene or suspect? 4, have you ever turned a blind-eye to fellow officers' criminal actions? 5, have you ever planted evidence? 6, have you ever searched someone just so you could touch them? 7, have you ever withheld evidence? 8, have you ever abused your authority as a police officer? 9, have you ever perjured yourself? 10, Have you ever caused or took place in injuring a person under your authority?
@@kevink.7597 Polygraphs are actually really easy to cheat, so you could get a lot of people who have prepared getting through when they're monsters. At this point I just want to fire everyone. Even if they didn't do bad things, you know they knew about it, so that's accessory in about every other circumstance. Also, if you're nervous taking a polygraph, the results can be wildly inaccurate. Sadly, this has been used against innocent people in the past. Even the creator of the polygraph was upset when he saw what his invention was being used for.
"How is that possible?" For the same reason I gave my commanding officer when he asked why I didn't go to him with the sexual harassment and general harassment claims from my fellow soldiers before bringing a congressional and tribunal down on the company: "I knew it would have been swept under the rug" (nevermind the fact that I knew I would have been persecuted) The bad commanders are the reason the good cops can't fight the bad cops. The lives and safety of the good soldiers, good cops, good people, become in contention due to the bad actors.
Yeah and the same goes for society, If people would do what they are supposed to in life and live a life under some kind of honor there wouldn't be a need for an officer to have to treat everyone as a criminal. The only difference is their aren't riots claiming society currently sucks, instead you get people like the Slackers that can help kill 250k worth of people on American soil and he can BUY destruction of evidence of his guilt and legally buy off justice in other states. How do you uphold anything when people running the system are the root of the problem because as a whole no one abides by it?
@@nocturnal101ravenous6 I like how you said "Live by honor". I agree. People definitely live less and less by a social code that is acceptable for everyone.
@@없어수지 Lets be honest, people these days are a bunch of sociopaths, they really only care what they can get and are obsessed with doing as little as possible for the most they can get. If people actually cared situations like this would never occur, but the high road isn't worth taking when you can watch it happen and then seek brownie points later in protest. The policeman should never have been that violent, The Criminal should never have been High on drugs, drunk, and breaking the law. 2 Wrongs don't make a right, but you are either protesting African Americans being suppressed or you are protesting police brutality, pick 1 or the other because the first is complete racist BS spread by the media and ill-educated people with the wrong facts, Does it happen? yes, is it the majority of the situations happening...no it doesn't in fact more white people die per year in the US due to police, does it matter they are white, not really except to prove these people are selfish racist pigs. People are so full of their own BS to the point they lost all honor and they have no moral or ethical compass, they claim to, but the reality is always quite the opposite.
8:51 So if cops' records should be destroyed after they were disciplined, then why do civilians' criminal records stay forever, even if they served their time? There shouldn't be a double standard! If you purge cop's disciplinary record, do the same to civilians who've served their time and paid their dues!
I haven't given this exact topic a whole lot of thought but wouldn't it be nice to have some law that after a certain amount of time (Like a prison sentence) and possibly depending on the severity or nature of the crime, people couldn't be compelled to disclose past criminal history on job applications? Treat it kinda the same as medical records?
@@WeaponizedStrumpet I agree. Once a punishment has been served, the tab has been cleared. It's a clean slate thereafter. Records should only be kept for the courts to know if someone is a repeat offender, or for security clearances. For the everyday job, revealing criminal history should not be compulsory. Repeat offenders should lose that privilege though.
@Lesbian Amazon Sister I said that records should be kept for court use to check for repeat offenders. That means if you're applying for a job, then a typical background check wouldn't show the felony. That way the past crime doesn't follow you around forever. This follows a "second chance" mentality. If the person is convicted of another crime, the judicial dept would still know. The record is only cleared from any publically accessible records, not destroyed completely. As for the crime you mentioned as being too severe to allow a second chance, then sure. Maybe. Depends what the crime is. But if the perosn was shoplifting or doing drugs or whatever, that charge shouldnt haunt them for the rest of their lives if they turn their lives around and start fresh.
Police: oh come one it’s just some bad apples People: Well if you don’t wanna throw out the whole barrel, could we at least implement some kind of system to detect and remove those bad apples? Police: what? No
When John Oliver said “that’s probably the only class where nobody will raise their hand and say “when are we ever going to use this?” “ it made me disappointed of the world. I swear that when the time is right I will do everything in my power to make the world a better place, even if it’s just to improve one person’s life a little bit. I have to do this, I just have to.
I'm so blessed I live in Canada, I talked to an officer once, and he told me the that in the twenty seven years he's been in the force, he's never had to use his gun.
Your point is? The vast majority of American officers don't use their gun either. My Uncle, who was an officer for nearly forty years, once told me that of the 100+ officers he worked with as a police officer, less than ten had ever fired their gun.
We are blessed, but let us not rest on our laurels! There is a growing corruption here too. Make no mistake. It has old roots and is spreading. We have been better at hiding it as all of Canada has: repressed the Native American issues, has myopic and often unwarranted 'Canadian pride complex', fails to bother with investigations often and has a media that, for so many years, has been in favor of the law enforcement industry-- cloaking the truth of misconduct and bad apples. There is so much waste in the legal system, it has to be a a mess of corruption! We also, like other countries, automatically give a hero status to those in uniform. The social psychology is akin to us Canadians thinking there is nothing wrong with our collapsing healthcare. Or how 6-7 years ago there growing indicators of a housing crisis but we just ignored the signs as citizens and declared it all to be regular economy cycles, because that is what we were fed. Exposure of abuse of power by the 'justice system' and law enforcement is only just now starting to boil over and where a meager amount of the population is becoming aware of the stories. Mostly, for whatever reason, some of the media outlets have changed the tune and are covering corruption and allegations more so. It is not just a media sensationalism attention grab, there is truth of corruption that has long been shadowed by a choice of ignorance. I think Canada is awesome and I respect law enforcement (there are loads of good men and women who hold the right ethics); however, I caution any fellow Canadian to not let his/her guard down for the sake of Canadian pride.
Karobi Right now they say we should blame the democrats, the media, even the minority communities. I wonder who we were blaming years ago and if the solution going forward will just be to blame?
John Oliver and Last Week Tonight’s 3yr old video is still relevant today. Nothing has changed in 3yrs. Hopefully things will have changed 3yrs from now.
Chris Rock put it best, ...there are some careers that you just cant afford to have "bad apples" in... what if some pilots were bad apples?... what if an airline promised you that only 80% of their landings were successful? using "bad apples" as an excuse, especially for a job like the police where professional integrity should be a core belief is just wrong on so many levels
@Ruth Collins cant argue with you on that, but the consequences for their actions have always resulted in either death or losing their license and not being permitted to operate as a commercial pilot after the fact, whereas police have had the proverbial get out of jail card in the event of their infractions
Shray: Since there is a way to uncover a "Bad Apple" mechanic before having a fatal car crash; and a "Bad Apple" surgeon before the patient's funeral, there is a way to discover "Bad Apple" cops before another George Floyd is pinned down to the pavement with a cop's knee on his neck for nearly 9 minutes: It's called Psychological Testing to establish mental, psychological, and sociological fitness for the job BEFORE every cop is HIRED. Bad apples belong on the ground, under the apple tree, if you please.
Re-Hire all the Russ-Thugu-KKKant hate-monger Pigs that can pass a polygraph. I call this the 'Floyd Standard'. Really easy... Pass-Fail. 1, have you ever assaulted a suspect that was already handcuffed? 2, have you ever lied about matters of law you investigated? 3, have you ever stolen anything from a crime scene or suspect? 4, have you ever turned a blind-eye to fellow officers' criminal actions? 5, have you ever planted evidence? 6, have you ever searched someone just so you could touch them? 7, have you ever withheld evidence? 8, have you ever abused your authority as a police officer? 9, have you ever perjured yourself? 10, Have you ever caused or took place in injuring a person under your authority?
@@kevink.7597 I agree, but unfortunately polygraph tests are notoriously unreliable, which John covered in the Forensic Evidence episode. And the system can't be self-reporting because nothing change. But I like the idea/sentiment.
@Grailsarvas Where's your proof? You're one of those ignorant ideologist trying to pass off opinions/rumors as facts? It's hilarious that you just posted this considering current events. Do the world a favor and don't procreate :)
I get scared, but only because I’m worried that their might be a crime being committed nearby because my local police department has a really good relationship with the community, but I know that that is not the case in many cities around me
Watching this as of May 27th, 2020. After Ahmed Aubrey, Breonna Taylor, and now George Floyd... truly haunting. *P.S. I’m aware that Aubrey’s death was not police-related, simply a case of sensationalized vigilantism. Fact is, this has to stop.
Aubrey was murdered by white vigilantes empowered by the white supremacist ideology that has been a basis of European colonization everywhere, not excepting North America. Right now Trump’s open and violent racism has made guys like that feel they can get away with this.
"Ten people hanging out on a corner is not a crime" **cries in coronavirus** Edit: There was a bit of confusion around this comment so I would like to clarify that I do not believe that quarintine is opression and that I do believe that you should remain at home to keep yourself and others safe.
Seeing the proliferation of comments to the effect of, "I couldn't tell this vid is _ years old..." is incredibly sad. Yet I am enormously greatful this is here and available to all of us!
More than three years later, this is still relavant and accurate. Yet no one is surprised, it doesn't take an oracle to predict this happening again, and again, and again...
Yikai Yang The situation continues to get worse the longer Trump is in office. Not only does Trump himself frequently encourage violence, but it seems like his bad behavior has given people permission to behave their worst including some members of the police force.
TheUltimateBeing01 Z la do your research. How many LEOs being arrested for sex crimes with children in a single month would it take to get your attention?
"Yeah, but here's the thing about that. The phrase isn't 'it's just a few bad apples, don't worry about it.' The phrase is 'a few bad apples spoil the barrel.' And we currently have a system which is set up to ignore bad apples, destroy bad apples' records, persecute good apples for speaking up... You cannot look at our current situation and claim that anybody likes them apples." Best takeaway from this. RIP George Floyd.
"There are bad apples in every job." True, but it's very unlikely that your car mechanic is going to shoot you during an oil change. Or that you'd lose your job because you spent 4 days in jail because a store cashier "didn't like your tone." These are people that can easily ruin and/or end people's lives. They should be held to (at least) a bit of a higher standard. Especially since we're paying for them.
I like that like 3 seconds after it got uploaded, there's already a dislike.... Like I just imagine somebody sitting there waiting every Sunday night ready to dislike the new video from this channel
Idk why people are acting like 4 years is an eon or something. Things have barely changed in terms of policing & accountability since the riots in the _late 60s_ or the brutalizing of Rodney King & murder of Latasha Harlins that set off the 1992 LA. riots - the majority of Americans have just never cared enough about democratic accountability in law enforcement (or about the people who are disproportionately affected/murdered by this lack of accountability, although especially with the increasing militarization of the police, it has serious implications for us all) until now, when they're being forced to pay attention, against their inclination.
I mean, weren’t police ‘created’ as (my English is not so good) but slave catchers? And then it morphed into a whole host of reasons to lynch people th aks to the state?
Through the internet more and more young people are informed on current events, which is a good thing. With that comes the fact that for some of the younger ones, 4 years is a third or a fourth of their life, which is quite long. For 24 year old people, 6 years is 1/4 of their life, which is still not that much.
Jup, I'm not even American and I'm white and even I know this shit has been going through this same patterns for decades if not centuries. Although I do feel like with the rise of smartphones and cameras, social media and the ability for organizing that those bring to marginalized communities, plus the fact that through the internet way more people are aware of this - up until this point - futile cycle and thus may have the ability to actually break that cycle. As a European watching you guys, I feel like it's make or break time for you right now. You know, no. Scrap that. It's make time, because I cannot believe that you'd let yourself be waved off with fruitless promises again after all that's happened the past... half year, 4 years, 20 years.
Bad idea - if such a device ever were invented, it would likely start off being advertised as a non-lethal alternative to use of lethal force, but eventually just become a pain compliance tool which is rarely used as a force alternative. OH WAIT
e-Hire all the Russ-Thugu-KKKant hate-monger Pigs that can pass a polygraph. I call this the 'Floyd Standard'. Really easy... Pass-Fail. 1, have you ever assaulted a suspect that was already handcuffed? 2, have you ever lied about matters of law you investigated? 3, have you ever stolen anything from a crime scene or suspect? 4, have you ever turned a blind-eye to fellow officers' criminal actions? 5, have you ever planted evidence? 6, have you ever searched someone just so you could touch them? 7, have you ever withheld evidence? 8, have you ever abused your authority as a police officer? 9, have you ever perjured yourself? 10, Have you ever caused or took place in injuring a person under your authority?
Grey Hood I don’t know about the exact number but there is a statistic that a bit less than half of police officers are domestically abusive (to their wives or children).
(pepper sprays protesters) "protecting" (handcuffs six year old girl) "citizens" (plants drugs on suspect) "from criminals" (takes bribes from drug gangs).
I was on a long-term Grand Jury once. It was a six month stint, every other Friday. The first four months were rote cases that weirdly tended to end with "the suspect claimed these were not his pants", and our juicy cases like the officer-involved shooting ones were left until the last couple months. You better believe it was so we could build up a relationship with the cops who were presenting the standard "not my pants" cases! They didn't do quite a good enough job. Most of the officer-involved shootings were suicides, one could've been Oscar bait since it involved a sniper duel between people who served in the same war and a suicide-by cop while wearing military medals. It was legitimately tragic, and I'm sure it haunts a few of us. One involved an officer who shot an unarmed man in the face. We were a contrary bunch by Grand Jury standards, I guess, because once we realized they were trying to pressure us into not indicting him we got all puffed up and were as a group like "the hell we will!" Because he shot an unarmed man in the face, see, and that kind of thing should be properly investigated. Not swept under the rug because the unarmed man had a history of non-violent offenses. Oh no, he's a messy human being! Doesn't mean he should get shot in the face. The police didn't take it well. They acted like total brats over it. We got glared at and given the cold shoulder, and while none of us thought they'd do anything to us, none of us really wanted to go to our cars alone. It was super intimidating. And all because we wanted them to INVESTIGATE wether proper procedure had been followed when an unarmed man was shot in the face. I don't think anything ever came of it... which is a shame. I bet that man could've used some compensation to help dig out from the medical bills from being shot in the face. While unarmed.
@@Mistachill Yup! He's missing about half his tongue, quite a lot of teeth, and his jaw was a trainwreck that he was trying to grow a beard over so he didn't have to look at the scarring, but he made it. He was so relieved that his case wasn't being ignored. I've never been able to find out how it went for him in the end, but I'm glad we at least gave him a chance.
@@HNBur it's very likely charges were dropped by the DA bit the record of charges could remain unless the state it happened in con seals and destroys cases that were dropped. Prosecutors are not dumb and they have been rigging the system and making the rules to the game unimpeded for decades. Making the rules so easy for them not to have to be accountable. Prosecutors are basically immune to the law.
Every time I hear someone mention "a few bad apples" relating to any group of people... it strongly appears that they're completely unaware of the end of that phrase.... " A few bad apples... spoil the bunch." Corruption, even in tiny amounts, WILL spread if left unchecked. EDIT:: And this is a lesson in why we wait until the end of a video to make comment..... ah well, at least John Oliver brought it up for those who don't read to comments.
I agree with Mr. Oliver's point as well but using an adage to make a point creates a simplistic view of the world. But what do I know? I'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut.
what I find the most ironic part of the "it's just a few bad apples" mentality is that often the ones who say that regarding cops will see an extreme act of violence or terrorism with a Muslim suspect and then they'll cry "this is why we need a Muslim ban!" of course this also means the left is hypocritical when they say don't judge all Muslims by the extreme examples but then think this is how all cops act. Hypocrisy comes from both sides in this regard
@@florianadolf2256 hmmm...America has just entered its downfall, just like how Britain lost power in the 60's after the Suez Crisis ...Minneapolis looks like a European city after ww2
I did it's time to fix this B.S. once and for all but it will have to happen on a feral level. If the police are not made accountable there will be no peace . all of this was preventable if only the government gave a dame about fixing a problemm rather the pretending there is sent one.
He really is, in fact you can go right back to 2007 when he used to co-host The Bugle podcast, he had his finger on the pulse and listening to them now he's often been incredibly prophetic.
Two things: - Becoming a professional pastry chef or baker takes more training than police. - A few "bad apples" who occasionally killed people on the job while working for an airline would not be tolerated.
Airline is a totally different breed of work. Policing usually deals with people who would ambush and kill them if they sit in one spot. And in policing you are eventually going to shoot someone if they shoot you.
As somebody who has been to prison *just for smoking weed,* the systemic lack of accountability for police makes me believe that "the law" is nothing more than a weapon to use against poor people.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard American Police training is just a few months at the most? Now, I'm going to suggest something that would probably require raising taxes or shuffling over some money from other areas, but there are several other countries where police education takes several *years* and includes extensive hand-to-hand combat training, psychology and an array of other tools that would leave the police feeling safer in the streets than if they just have their guns to rely on in a dangerous situation. And, you know, it gives their instructors more time to see if the police aspirants really have enough nerve to don't freak out and shoot unarmed people on the street. I mean fuck, what can you possibly hope to cover in just a few months of police training? "Here's how to frisk someone, here's how to fire the gun, now go out there and remember that everyone hates you guts and want you dead"? No fucking wonder the US police is dangerous as fuck, that's like handing a scalpel to someone halfway through the nurse program and telling them they're ready to perform brain surgery.
Also keep in mind, these people get leftover toys from the military thanks to the military industrial complex. I went to high school with people that are entering the police force now (and barely graduated). None of those people should ever have access to a *fucking tank* or an armory full of armor piercing fully-automatic rifles.
While the idea is certainly not a bad one, I don't feel it's practical. I would be interested to know which countries train their Officers for years, without them working on the streets. Training can only teach you so much before you have to do it for real, with real stress and real resistance that could cost you your life. How long is enough before you have to get the true outcome? More time could be focused on mental health for instance, working with people that really need it. But again how much is enough before they have to go and do it? I have talked to people about the idea of having "mentors", where following training and someone is on their own they still ride with a second person that acts as a mentor. But that isn't practical if your department is understaffed. Also no US departments have a fucking tank, that ridiculous. Tracked, or armored vehicles maybe, but no tanks. Nor do any have an armory full of "armor piercing fully-automatic rifles". Even if you have a bunch, you still have to have shotguns and smoke grenades, so it wouldn't be full.
I beg to differ about the tanks. I drive by one on the way to work, Google sheriff joes tank. Maricopa county has 64 apc's 17 helicopters ans a 50 caliber machine gun yipee ky-yei yai!
Wow... that last line was such a great statement! 19:15 "The phrase isn't 'its just a few bad apples, dont worry about it', the phrase is: 'a few bad apples spoil the barrel.' And we currently have a system which is set up to ignore bad apples, destroy bad apples' records, persecute good apples for speaking up, and shuffle dangerous emotionally unstable apples around to the point where children have to attend fucking apple classes!" Especially the part about persecuting the good apples. Thats a main part, so many good police are afraid to speak out and do the right thing. Thats what happened many years ago when there were so many corrupt NY cops that were taking bribes left and right. Ever see Serpico? that shit happened!
Gun advocates seem to be the loudest supporters of the police. So the "few bad apples" is rhetoric that they too use when it comes to justifying the idiots that misuse guns. It's the same unaccountable mentality. At some point, the bad apples will ruin it for all of you, and rightfully so.
Man this video aged like it never aged. Watching it again almost 4 years later and it feels like it's commentary on something that's happened yesterday next year.
They do suck! They suck, Feminism sucks....Anyone claiming they fight for "equality" but spreads racism, violence, propaganda, plays the victim card, and so on and so forth sucks! It's funny seeing a white man defend them when all I hear from these people is straight up racism and sexism and soooo many threats towards white people (especially white men) coming from Blm and feminists. O but we're just so ignorant and delusional right? It's the truth!!! Stop enabling and pandering to pieces of shit and call them out on their shit!
+Jesse Bochek. I agree. Just look at the string of comments in response to my post above, lol. I didn't mention BLM, yet it was immediately brought up by people who are in denial.
Let's all wave at the 2023 viewers who'll be reading this in another 3 yrs just like us. *waves* Hope everyone survived the pandemic and that 5G is blowing your minds
@@Ralph85Williams85 True that. I really hope that if it comes true that it's not because we slacked off again but because we are still on it. We've been here so many times, enough is enough doesn't even cover it anymore, but fucking hell, Enough. Is. Enough! 5G for EVERYONE. Freedom for EVERYONE. Safety for EVERYONE. I want to see interracial intersex, trans, gay couples streaming their wedding with 50+ friends and family members, over 5G, recorded by their (perhaps adopted) children! It's the 21st century; let's act like it is!
Societal and cultural (and economic) change are multi-generational things. And there is probably always room for improvement. In 100 years the mainstream will probably think some things we think are fine are wrong. The world will never be perfect, but we can always strive toward that ideal, partially for ourselves, but especially for future generations
i don't agree because most of the time police can't be perfect. There are in life threatening situation and it's always hard to assess a situation in a second, or even videos are manipukated so that only to see the police bahaviour. I think the main pb is that u have weapon in ut country legalized. That put everybody fucking nervous.
@@thedoude9418 Being a cop is like the 14th most dangerous job in america, garbage men, pilots, fisherman, and general agricultural workers all have statistically more dangerous and difficult jobs
@@Wildmilly i will be curious to see the study. I am pretty sure it is by number of accidents, which are technical in most of the jobs u quoted. I think the level of stress is not the same when ur danger is coming from other human, which is much more sneaky.
i swear man, sometimes you make me laugh so hard that i have decided to remind myself not to ever get high before i watch you again, you are a real card. thanks for the laughs from one of your fans.
Stephen Butterfield not entirely accurate. we do still have an abuse of power. black people, autistic people and others have died whilst in police custody and prosecutions are, again, rare.
Drastic headcase,yes in UK that does happen,like the police van your in weaves back and forth,side to side so your thrown around inside,but when UK cops are armed it's in response to an armed situation,my sister is one of those officers,but police on the beat don't have firearms on them as they do in USA,that's why it's scary af to me and yes I have lived in USA too
Officers that speak out against bad apples can be punished in humiliating ways by calling them rats, harassing them, and in some cases can even ignore them in dire situations. The higher-ups that condone the horrendous acts are definitely to blame, but fellow officers speaking out can be punished for being a decent human being
The effect of those "bad apples" destroy the trust that civilians have. People become paranoid, distrusting, or even vengeful. These bad cops are more dangerous than the guns they carry, because of the damage they cause to the reputation of all officers.
Indeed. Enough "bad apples" accumulate, people will think that the entire barrel full is rotten, and we will soon have an entire barrel full of rotten apples that will merely reinforce what people initially thought.
Indeed; the example where a man who should not, *ever,* have been allowed on a police force nor to own or carry a firearm, ended up shooting a twelve-year-old because people simply did not read the huge warning sign in his file (or care), is especially poignant in illustrating this fact. Really, it should be a no-brainer; what's the point of a cop so psychotic he, say, kills three vaguely dangerous criminals and thus fosters resentment in twelve more, making each more dangerous to anyone they come across, while making another five turn to crime out of sheer disgust, who would otherwise not have? We need less hate, less violence, less shooting, less cover-ups of corruption and unjust conduct, and less murder. Shouldn't be rocket science, one would think.^^; In the end, criminals are just people... people who are either too poor to eat (and aren't given any job opportunities), or too hurt and angry to just slot into lawful society, or too spoiled to care about the people they hurt. The latter's a tricky one to fix, but the other two just demand empathy and an attitude of "Let's get these people into situations where they feel good about doing good" rather than "Let's make sure these scum know they're not wanted"...
What everyone seems to forget about the "a few bad apples" metaphor is that *"a few bad apples **_SPOILS THE BUNCH"_* ... e.g bad apples create more bad apples.
As if these idiots who say it would open a bin of fresh apples and upon seeing that there are 3 rotten ones go: "Oh it's just a few bad apples!" And close the lid. Yeah right!
Please remember! When referring to a police officer please don’t say policeman or policewoman, use gender neutral terms like tool of the bourgeoisie and enemy of the people
@@cerebralcaustic about 750 AD, I think. That's the point at which "-man" *was* the gender-neutral suffix, something English speakers forgot over the last millennium (the word for adult male and female at the time being werman* and wifman** respectively, and words like fisherman having no gender connotations...) Pointless fact, but there you go. * as in 'werewolf' (wolf-man) ** as - pretty obviously - in 'wife'
One reason why so many people are so hateful of the police might have something to do with the fact that every time they shoot someone, no one wants to release the body cam footage. Just show it to the people and we'll leave you alone... Unless you're hiding something that makes you guilty...
It could also be that police have a belt of tools specifically for apprehending suspects the most non lethal way possible and every time it's straight to a gun.
Like that video where they shoot a homeless white dude for picking up a knife in a non violent way. I mean, I understand the alarm, but he was far away and they decided to shoot him *and then* hit him with the non lethal stuff once he was dying on the ground *and then* send their dog to chew on him.
***** Not a racial thing, but I'd suggest looking up the Paradise CA shooting as another example, they have video of a cop trying to find the discharged shells and he got off scot free.
***** In regards to the difference between Rodney King and the guy I mentioned? The guy I mentioned wasn't black that time, it was just another example of cameras not doing jackshit.
In California recently an off duty cop was speeding and slammed his Camero into the back of a family killing them. You guessed it, the cop was let out of jail due to "needing more time for an investigation." They said they were going to charge him with reckless driving, drunk driving, and manslaughter, but they ended up releasing him....smfh
We have been talking about this injustice for three years in our society and it is getting worst. Finally society has to fix the issue of what is reasonable in our justice system today.
Strawman! Nobody is saying pigs can't use "necessary force". It is excessive force, and straight out lawlessness that are the problems. The corrupt system that rewards pigs with paid vacations, i.e. "administrative leave", whenever they are caught breaking the law they are supposed to uphold.
About two years ago, I lost two very good friends and the girl‘s boyfriend because a stupid cop decided he wanted to speed around a bend where there was a stop light and hit them head-on and killed all three of them. The policeman got off, not even a tarnish On his reputation and he returned to work. This past Christmas, my sister and brother-in-law we’re headed home from my house. A cop decided he wanted to run the red light so he turned on his lights right before the light as my sister and brother-in-law were in the middle of the intersection. Luckily, Neither were injured, but she has severe PTSD and the cop got off. Cops can get away with anything.
It sucks. What a tragedy. Hope u r doing well. The sad part is that most of the time they turn the sirens on is to get to Dunkin Donuts. I c that everyday. They just wanna get their coffee and hit on the women that make them. 60 minutes a few year back did a report on this. DD is their favorite spot when they r not harassing ppl
Here's a nice cop story where justice was served (and perhaps a bit comically at that) My friend was about 6 and he was telling us about his Dad driving home quickly because his Mum said something about the baby - he saw his speedometer and thought that it'd be okay just that once. When he got home and realised that she said it kicked, not that she was in any danger, he felt so guilty for breaking the law that he wrote himself a speeding ticket and paid the fine.
@James Walker so you expect him to have done nothing at all seems rather foolish cop accountability is bad enough as is at least hes willing to take some responsibility.
Not surprised in the slightest that John Oliver has already covered this issue.
e-Hire all the Russ-Thugu-KKKant hate-monger Pigs that can pass a polygraph.
I call this the 'Floyd Standard'.
Really easy... Pass-Fail.
1, have you ever assaulted a suspect that was already handcuffed?
2, have you ever lied about matters of law you investigated?
3, have you ever stolen anything from a crime scene or suspect?
4, have you ever turned a blind-eye to fellow officers' criminal actions?
5, have you ever planted evidence?
6, have you ever searched someone just so you could touch them?
7, have you ever withheld evidence?
8, have you ever abused your authority as a police officer?
9, have you ever perjured yourself?
10, Have you ever caused or took place in injuring a person under your authority?
🎤👇🙌
@@kevink.7597 although I would like to see that happen, if you are aware of what a polygraph looks for and can control heartbeat (I can, so I know its possible) it is really flawed. Plus being hooked up to a polygraph can cause false triggers, we need a more concrete method, more intensive training and actual repercussions for breaking the law, even detaining someone illegally which is a very very minor case for a lot of things should result in being fired on the spot and banned from being an officer in any department in the country. Cops get away with so much so they have the above the law ego we all hate with a passion
I can do you have a
I listened to rappers in the late eighties that covered this issue. He’s very late still.
The only problem with this video is that it's ALWAYS relevant.
Sadly that's the only problem with almost (if not all) the videos on this channel.
true
It's not just that it's still relevant. It's even more relevant now, and it becomes more and more relevant every day.
your last name is Hegedus, you don't know
@@Justin-tp1mx i'm sorry....what?
In Denmark we have an organisation called Den uafhængige politiklagemyndighed, DUP, "The independent police complaint authority". They take over ALL cases where a police officer have fired a short. Doesn't matter if anyone was hit or not. They also take over ALL cases where a citizen has died in police custody.
Likewise you can make a complaint if you have a bad experiance with the police. With this system none of your colleges will be in charge of the investigation.
I think this is a great system. And yes its a paine in the ass for many police officers, but as a former police officer I can tell that I have never been afraid to do my job
As a German speaking person I've just got a stroke while reading the name of your organisation. But thank you, now I'm going to check how it works here :)
In Russia we have same service. It's far from perfect, there is a lot of corruption BUT it works.
That sounds like a good idea, which is why we will never have it here in the US
@@winniethepootietang6152 Good one, and I just adore your name😁💚
Sounds similar to the Norwegian system as well!
When I was a kid, I said I wanted to be a police officer because then I couldn't go to jail. (Keep in mind, I was 5 at the time.)
My mom replied, "That's not how it works."
But it is.
It is if you don't piss off other corrupt cops then you get offered up to internal affairs
At least you can finally become street thug and never have to face any punishment
Can we re-air this episode? I feel like we REEAAALLLLYYYYY need it...
Cole Shepherd Yeah.
Or you know do a follow up story in relation to what's happening in Minnesota.
We need a part two, at least.
How unbelievably disgusting is it that this was 3 years ago and you can't even tell.
Police need to be community based and shouldn't be hired from outside of said community. Police should live where they work. When a community knows the person behind the badge and vice versa it helps curtail a lot of these problems.
A classroom full of 1st graders has a combined experience of 30 years of school. That does not make each of them all as smart as a PhD.
ADMA sixty. Thirty students times two years. They’d be the best in their field!
we.. all kinda understood even b4 any explanation that ^^that statement is obvi bs
No but it does make them as smart as any police department.
yeah wow its so fucking scary when you say it like that, its not too far off when even a simple security guard can easily be given a gun in this country...… these cops go to school for 2/less years and barely have to train before they are given a gun and sent out as a public servant....
@@mikeferster7966 school for 2 years??😳🤣🤣 not in MY town!
Couldn’t have gotten this video in my recommended at a better time
Replies for the algorithm. More need to see this. Keep going America, we love you. X🖤
This Baltimore Cop talks about his experience:
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This man talks about the same police force ruclips.net/video/oGTQ0Wj6yIg/видео.htmlm30s
This news report shows it's not just one state:
ruclips.net/video/g1qdeSOVvNk/видео.html
The RUclips algorithm is doing its thing... Finally for good
@@ianbartram2118 now if only it would recommend my channel lol
i've watched this video before and yet the part where the kids in school are writing "please don't shoot" on a piece of paper still makes me cry every time. This is not ok.
Jesus if you didn’t tell me it was 3 years old I’d think it was this weeks episode
You can tell, because he isn't sitting in his white void
turns out it is
I watched it yesterday without realising it was from 3 years ago. I found out today while searching for the video and not finding it in the recent ones.
This week is even better
I swear, I thought it was for this week until I saw your comment....
It's ironic that the phrase "Snitches get stitches" is associated with gangsters but the police have a very similar policy.
Police Unions are the new modern mafias.
a rat is a rat.
+Anton Ionov And a cat is a cat. What's your point?
Just another foreign Clinton Foundation donor- pay for play.
Hermaeus Mora Point is, it doesn't matter who says it, the police or the criminals, the saying applies either way.
I can't believe I watched this for 16 minutes before I realized this was FOUR YEARS OLD. Holy shit nothings changed.
@Koski Co to be fair the media again portrayed her as a saint, she wasnt.. they can make up any story they want and 90% of the public is gonna believe it. I wasnt there and you werent there so the outrage over what happened is manufactured.
@@notori0uszig the police literally tried to get her ex boyfriend to implicate her on a crime she didn't commit so her killing could look more justified... there's plenty to hate about that case. The cops don't deserve to walk free. Evidence was also withheld from the grand jury
What do you mean? Did the live audience not give it away?
Except hillery clinton.
Could be sixty years old. Take money out of politics.
Honestly the biggest difference between this episode and the one that was released today is that John has become a lot more firm in his positions. There’s no “sometimes it’s ok for the police to shoot video” instead it’s “the police need to be rebuilt from the ground up or else nothing is going to change and innocent people are going to keep dying” and I love it
Johns a moron the cops are fine other people need to stop breaking the damn law
The phrase, "A few bad apples" is only the beginning. It finishes, "ruins the bunch". So, when you're saying there are a few, you're actually saying that the entire company/system/department is ruined.
Im hev retarrd Haha. In this sense, I don’t think you could say that all black people are a bunch. Blacks do not have special black people responsibilities or any training on the proper way to be black people. And there certainly is no severe consequence to you for their failure to live up to these hypothetical yet nonexistent standards.
Im hev retarrd no you are not, cuz that would be like saying all cops are bad cops after encountering a few bad apples. The argument here is not that “all cops are bad cops.” The argument is that the presence of a few bad cops is a problem for the police system in general, because it causes distrust in an office that we should be able to trust to uphold the law.
@@jaromchristensen5598 Ah sorry, i misunderstood. I thought it was saying that all officers deserve to be labeled as bad just because of a few. I agree, it really does mess with the public's perception of a majority good work force.
P>p
It really comes down to #PersonalChoice. We can choose to do the right thing - even if no one is watching. Or...
#EndPoliceBrutality
#BLM
In Austria, whenever police officers use their weapons an investigation automatically starts, by a randomly selected police department from a different state, no questions asked. Any shots fired WILL be investigated by a force not related to parties involved. Any use of force by the police, if suspected excessive, may be treated in the same way. Not to say that it fixes all problems and prevents all misconduct by the police, but at least here people aren't routinely shot dead for no reason whatsoever. Would this not be a good method, at least a start? Shots fired automatically starts investigation by a police unit from a randomly selected state, and their investigation is subject to thorough scrutiny by the court.
This where the FBI should be the ones investigating every single use of weapons by police officers. The FBI guys not related to LE agencies (at least in theory).
how the heck do I delete this comment ?
That doesn't matter when officers are not being held accountable.
horrovac I think you have a great idea down under!
Crikey, thanks mate!
This video shouldn’t be still relevant today... but here we are.
This video shouldn't have been relevant when it was made. It was already long overdue when it was made.
That says a lot abut this corporate schlub making money off of it.
it's too relevant, heck the whole ignoring 10 people in the corner statement didn't age, it got younger.
All of LWT videos are about time bombs ticking or poisons slowly being ingested...relevant beyond time.
You can likely find video clips covering this same exact subject from every single decade since video was invented.
I still can't believe the Tamir Rice shooter, after knowing that he was a troubled officer, no one got charged. They literally drove straight up to the literal kid, and literally jumped out of the car and killed the kid before the car even came to a stop. It was a straight up drive by shooting and murder.
Apparently, the courts have chosen to send the message that nothing that cop did was actually illegal, so every citizen has a green light to behave that way.
This episode SHOULD NOT be relevant almost 4 years later. But it is.
It's been relevant since the Civil War.
it was relevant 4 years before it aired and 4 years before that and before that and. . . . .
This episode should have never been relevant, but it probably will be for many years to come. So many cops have committed heinous crimes during these protests, and a ton of them won't ever be prosecuted.
It shouldn't be more relevant.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
In light of everything thats going on, I'd love to see an update to this.
We probably will this weekend
This is it...
This was the updated version.
0:00 update starts here.
It'll be out Sunday at like 3am. I'm like 99% sure.
Funny that the same people that say "it's just a few bad apples" also fear the "three poisoned skittles in a bowl", so paradoxical, almost like a zen riddle ...
Very true. Lets excuse the horrendously corrupt police department due to "a few bad apples" however lets as a culture and society reject all immigrants and refugees because even a "few poisoned skittles in a bowl" is enough reason to reject the entire shipment! Oliver's observation is spot on.
Made even more so by the fact that the figure is closer to "one skittle in a swimming pool". It's a stupid analogy anyways, for a number of reasons, but that's another story.
You mean the 60% bad skilltes in a bowl (terrorist+rapist+murderes+sharia fans)
But the police in the USA has more problems than a few bad apples so you are right on that one
+SilentHunterSan you do realize that the US has let in over 700,000 refugees from the Middle East, right? And that of those, less than 5 have even attempted to form a terrorist plot?
These are people, not monsters. They're fleeing their country to get away from terrorism, not start it. Not to mention the multiple agencies and years of approval that's needed to even step foot on US soil.
“people instinctually trust the cops” *minority groups have left the chat*
@@kamrynturner5232 unironically you are such a chad if you were a country you would share a border with cameroon
🇹🇩 chad gang 🇹🇩
@@hughjanos3992 Nigeria for life 🇳🇬🇳🇬
I know white people with clean records who don't trust the police 😂
I was thinking the exact same sentence
@@IronLion219 I really hope you are joking.
Boy, what a time for this to turn up in my feed.
The body cams are an excellent idea. Also make those camera recordings save on a hard drive so they can't be deleted.
load it to the cloud
Cloud, is this suppose to be a joke?
dropbox that shit.
Well....
wasn't apples cloud thing hacked recently?
Hard drive is better, at least that way to hack it you would need direct access to the thing, or network access to the thing its plugged into (but they wouldn't put it on a network, that'd be stupid).
Skelebon You do realize you can put it on multiple cloud servers AND also keep it on hard drive? That's the point. Also, icloud wasn't hacked. People got their passwords leaked from other sites and they just happened to use the same password for icloud.
This video explains why people are rioting in Minneapolis this week. I imagine I’ll have to share the video 1 million times before any serious regulatory reforms take place.
Please everybody share at least 1 m times.
Knowledge doesn't hurt (although some people are astonishingly resilient against it...).
Are you serious? 1 million? Try again.
@@Krystalmyth Here's a group actually making changes - www.nlg-npap.org/about-npap-justice/
We can only hope people will learn if we say it loud and frequent enough.
It's unfortunate that people are using the tragedy to loot businesses though. There's multiple sides
Here 2020. John Oliver is truly a man ahead of the times. Wow, just WOW.
Everyone who repeats the "A few bad apples" seems to forget the rest of the saying is " will spoil the whole barrel".
EXACTLY
This is accurate both metaphorically and literally
Wow, mother of all double-edged sword.
There's "a few bad apples" in the minority communities too.
Operator 801 That’s what we call a false equivalency. See, a minority doesn’t choose their ethnicity. It isn’t a brotherhood that they were welcomed into and consented to join and are paid for it.
There are bad apples everywhere, in every group. It happens.
But I know for a fact that I’m not in danger of being caged by minorities when I choose to use drugs.
There is no such thing as a good cop. Every single cop has agreed as a matter of employment to enforce unjust laws. Every cop who has ever been part of an arrest for a nonviolent action is a piece of shit for following those orders.
@@myquest666420 Well Mike, you are simultaneously lying through your stupid face, making nonsensical standards, and refusing to take responsibility for your actions.
That's NOT a false equivalency, because I never said that the police force is identical to being a minority. I simply re-used a stupid phrase in a way that points out how stupid and non-applicable it is. The fact that not everyone is perfect does not depend on volunteer status or income. The only reliable statement you made: "it happens".
Congratulations on not fearing legal backlash when breaking the law. That doesn't make them "good" or even "better" people. It just makes them "not police". You wouldn't need to fear the police doing anything if you just STOPPED BREAKING THE LAW.
The only "unjust law" you will ever find, are laws that change depending on the individual. Just because crack is illegal and you disagree does not make it an "unjust law". You have no constitutional right to meth or heroin, those laws are completely just, because the majority of voters have made it so. Your feelings here do not matter at all. There are a great many valid laws beyond violent offenses, and it would behoove you to learn that.
Child rape, for example. Burglary and embezelement for further examples. I highly suggest you correct your infantile world view of actions and consequences if you think that you should only ever be imprisoned for violent crimes.
But yeah, clearly the police are to blame.
In Canada as an officer if you even fire your gun once there is weeks of paperwork and cross examinations from inside AND outside the police department.
Then the cop has to prove in court that he had absolutely no other option but to shoot his/her weapon.
I've watched officers in Canada get torn apart in courtrooms and lose their jobs over less than a unjustified use of force.
America is the problem, the way you train your police is the problem.
That should be how it is everywhere. These people have control over our lives. They should be under the strictest scrutiny. I only have one caveat though, I hope they're paid well in Canada.
this is why I want to live in Canada
Not paid too well in Canada but they get buy. Canada has their bad apples too but the way Police are trained and selected here they go through so many processes and testings that weed out the majority of them before they ever get a badge.
tyfenrir your police don't go to dangerous areas where murders happen in the dozens each week.
It's funny how people are still defending that argument. Also, that has nothing to do with what he stated.
The fact that a hairdresser’s training is longer than police’s...
A LOT of training and licensing is much longer than training someone to carry a gun, pepper spray, tear gas, batons, etc... than cops training.
Bad apples cut some ears off
It's so bizarre to me to find out your cops only have a few weeks of training before starting for real! Here in the Netherlands the lowest level of education you can follow to become an actual cop (so not an assistant) is 2.5 years in a combined theoretical-practical program.
@@AliceDiableaux In Finland it is three year degree, with some practical training, but I don't know details on that.
AliceDiableaux yeah we suck lol
"We want justice for_______ now!!"
I'm leaving it blank because there's so many names that could go there and so many more since this aired 3 years ago
When there are this many "bad apples", there's something wrong with the orchard.
Blokka Nokka That’s “one bad banana will spoil the bunch”, I think.
A bad apple is rotten and needs throwing out. We shouldn't keep shoving them down people's throats - that's poison and has led to many deaths.
actually orchards produce significantly more bad apples than there are bad police proportional.
police shootings that result in death is something like 0.01% of the entire police population.
imagine scoring a 99.99% on a test and being told you failed.
Amen!!
@@mayainverse9429 oky, you are obviously one of the morons who lives in this town...
I still can't believe no charges were brought to the murders who shot Rice.
F Howl +
That video of that bastard stepping out from the patrol car and shooting him without warning will never be justified, all they needed was to command over the speaker.
He was only Thirteen
and those who killed eric garner.
and the cop that killed Tony Timpa as you can see in the footage of police body cams ruclips.net/video/_c-E_i8Q5G0/видео.html
daang lotsof comments are sooo new now
It was a black kid. Are u really surprised.
"Theyre out to protect you". Meanwhile in reality, the supreme court sided with the police and said the police are not obligated to protect you. So now their motto of "protect and serve" is now. "Serve out punishment".
you think the police are bad just wait till they get tired of this bullshit and all quit. people who live under the power of Drug cartels in Mexico and South America would fucking love to have our police.
Definitely contradictory, no matter the position.
@@mayainverse9429 it can be better regardless. We had one woman cop die because she DIDN'T shoot a black man stomping her to death while on pcp because of his race and we've had cops shoot people because of their race. They NEED to be at their BEST. And we're not there!
@@mayainverse9429 I would love it if our police quit. Let's see a cartel run a country with 80 million guns.
I just watched an Adam Ruins Everything on cops, & I was pretty shocked to find that out, too.
I love the amount of excellent research that goes into the show, as well as the fact that he makes me laugh out loud.
Just remember, everyone - this episode aired before Trump was elected. Trump is a symptom, and a bad one at that, but we've had these problems for a long time and it's going to take a lot of hard work to overcome them.
You are, of course, correct.
However, Trump is not just a symptom, but also a driving factor.
It's like the biggest, baddest apple telling all the other bad apples that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" in the middle of an arguably justified period of civic unrest.
That's not just being a symptom, that's a driving problem, simply because that's the commander in chief.
@William Hutchinson Why did he get the name sleepy Joe? I've always wondered that.
Edit: everyone other than the op answering as if I don't already know. Geez. Way to ruin the bait, I was trying to have some fun. Yes I realize our dictactor Donald the dump Trump gave him the name. But nobody on that side actually has any reason for calling him that other than repeating a naritive they're too stupid to question because they watch too much Fox news. Honestly the stupidity on both sides is staggering. One side wants a stupid immoral dictatorship and the other wants retarded socialism. Both are completely stupid. God help us.
@@aholder4471 Because Trump gives demeaning nicknames all those whom he considers an obstacle to him retaining the throne. In years past, this would have lost him all creditability with the electorate. Now? I guess the tactics used your average eight-year-old are are acceptable.
@@aholder4471 There's no rhyme or reason - as with anything Trump said. Trump has always made up names for his enemies because he can't attack their track record as however bad they are, his is always worse.
Barry Geistwhite he’s still a racist asshole that’s stirring the pot in our country and making things worse.
We shouldn’t have to teach kids how to interact with police like we teach kids how to act around wild animals
That is a honestly a terrible idea. One could argue THAT'S why we have a police violence problem in the first place as it sounds that everyone scared they'll treat their children that way.
Just teach them to be respectful and not give them ANYTHING to use against them. Be an INNOCENT, not SKETCHED OUT or AGGRESSIVE. You lose you're ground when you behave like an ASSHOLE no matter what you're a victim of because it decreases you're perceived innocence.
Educate them as well. My mom is mixed paralegal and shit scares the shit outta anybody when I call her in. She knows EXACTLY what laws they're breaking and how to get it taken care of. She also knows how to avoid self incrimination and their manipulation of public miseducation. Like how if they ask to come in you can say hell no and you DON'T have to talk to them.
Cat Elkins ...I was not writing about an idea I had... I was saying that it’s bad that we have to do that in the first place and that it’s bad that police don’t inherently have the public’s best interests in mind
Oh *no.* *That's* what was familiar about that clip. "It's more scared of you than you are of it" would not have been out-of-place.
@@Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty you suck. That's why we have a police problem? Nice job entirely ignoring the problem bc you read the original comment wrong
@@Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty Oh, Cat.
Wtf is a "dangerous loss of composure" during weapons training? That's so horrifying I can't even picture it. Crying? A temper tantrum? Shouting racial epithets at the paper targets?
I was wondering the same.
yes. all of the above..
Shooting the fucking sergeant in his fat fucking face 15 fucking times and experiencing a mind-shattering orgasm on the 14th shot...
That's a pretty dangerous loss of composure, when you think about it.
I was imagining he was acting out movie scenes, but yeah, it could have been much worse then that.
@@ahbbuddha 😂😂😂😂😂
local prosecutors working with cops, and then they are supposed to prosecute them? this is a massive issue that needs to change
I was forced to resign from my dream job as a jail officer for performing CPR on a dying inmate. It was really because it was an election year and word got our I was not going to vote for our current Sheriff. I have applied at 14 different agencies in 2 different states and still don’t work in law enforcement. I now have a lot of disdain and pure hatred for law enforcement officers and spend a majority of my time educating people of their rights and exposing officer misconduct at every chance. Hence my username.
Keep it up
I’m so sorry, you sound like a great person, I’m sorry law enforcement failed you
Carlos Camacho thank you. I served my Sheriff with pride and loved everything about my job. Law enforcement is a very grimy business and no matter how big or small the agency, politics and the “good ole boy” system will always prevail. I will never forget the very first question of my first recorded interview for the Sheriff’s Office, they asked “Who do you know here?” I grew up in that county my whole life but didn’t personally know anyone that worked for there, so I was an oddball from the get go. When it came to them trying to fire me over the CPR incident, nobody came to back me even though I had stood up for everyone I worked with in that jail at one point or another. It has taken almost 4 years but the depression and rage are finally starting to subside and I now live across the country and make an okay living as a truck driver. But I’ll never stop telling the truth and exposing law enforcement for the frauds they are.
What was the reason stated?
Gideon Bellamy I was a probationary employee (less than 12 months) and they said that since I didn’t check for a pulse before starting that I didn’t meet the requirements to work there. However, even the American Heart Association says that checking for a pulse is not a required first step. They say that pulses can be too faint to detect and vary from person to person. They say that if no breathing is detected and no response is given from the casualty, you can start performing chest compressions. But because of my status as a probationary employee, they can legally fire me for absolutely no reason and I have no rights and cannot consult with Human Resources to challenge any decision. I was broke and couldn’t afford an attorney but fortunately I was able to meet with the Sheriff and plead with him to allow me to resign.
Wonder why these guys feel "It's just a few bad apples" is a good argument to defend police... but don't use the same thought process when it comes to Immigrants or muslims or ...
This... this right here.
They just apply the second half of that phrase to any minorities that don't fall in line
Re-Hire all the Russ-Thugu-KKKant hate-monger Pigs that can pass a polygraph.
I call this the 'Floyd Standard'.
Really easy... Pass-Fail.
1, have you ever assaulted a suspect that was already handcuffed?
2, have you ever lied about matters of law you investigated?
3, have you ever stolen anything from a crime scene or suspect?
4, have you ever turned a blind-eye to fellow officers' criminal actions?
5, have you ever planted evidence?
6, have you ever searched someone just so you could touch them?
7, have you ever withheld evidence?
8, have you ever abused your authority as a police officer?
9, have you ever perjured yourself?
10, Have you ever caused or took place in injuring a person under your authority?
@@kevink.7597 Polygraphs are actually really easy to cheat, so you could get a lot of people who have prepared getting through when they're monsters. At this point I just want to fire everyone. Even if they didn't do bad things, you know they knew about it, so that's accessory in about every other circumstance.
Also, if you're nervous taking a polygraph, the results can be wildly inaccurate. Sadly, this has been used against innocent people in the past. Even the creator of the polygraph was upset when he saw what his invention was being used for.
A few bad apples is no excuse its just a reason without reason.
"This is the only class students won't wonder, 'When are we going to use this?'"
Stuck with me
McMatthew99 it’s heartbreaking
Even if they use it the police will still kill them.
same....and Ive had to use it more times than I can count
7:47 This is why people say most cops are corrupt - the good ones either get shunned, forced out, or quit
"How is that possible?"
For the same reason I gave my commanding officer when he asked why I didn't go to him with the sexual harassment and general harassment claims from my fellow soldiers before bringing a congressional and tribunal down on the company:
"I knew it would have been swept under the rug" (nevermind the fact that I knew I would have been persecuted)
The bad commanders are the reason the good cops can't fight the bad cops.
The lives and safety of the good soldiers, good cops, good people, become in contention due to the bad actors.
Yeah and the same goes for society, If people would do what they are supposed to in life and live a life under some kind of honor there wouldn't be a need for an officer to have to treat everyone as a criminal. The only difference is their aren't riots claiming society currently sucks, instead you get people like the Slackers that can help kill 250k worth of people on American soil and he can BUY destruction of evidence of his guilt and legally buy off justice in other states.
How do you uphold anything when people running the system are the root of the problem because as a whole no one abides by it?
@@nocturnal101ravenous6 I like how you said "Live by honor". I agree. People definitely live less and less by a social code that is acceptable for everyone.
@@없어수지 Lets be honest, people these days are a bunch of sociopaths, they really only care what they can get and are obsessed with doing as little as possible for the most they can get. If people actually cared situations like this would never occur, but the high road isn't worth taking when you can watch it happen and then seek brownie points later in protest.
The policeman should never have been that violent, The Criminal should never have been High on drugs, drunk, and breaking the law. 2 Wrongs don't make a right, but you are either protesting African Americans being suppressed or you are protesting police brutality, pick 1 or the other because the first is complete racist BS spread by the media and ill-educated people with the wrong facts, Does it happen? yes, is it the majority of the situations happening...no it doesn't in fact more white people die per year in the US due to police, does it matter they are white, not really except to prove these people are selfish racist pigs. People are so full of their own BS to the point they lost all honor and they have no moral or ethical compass, they claim to, but the reality is always quite the opposite.
8:51 So if cops' records should be destroyed after they were disciplined, then why do civilians' criminal records stay forever, even if they served their time? There shouldn't be a double standard! If you purge cop's disciplinary record, do the same to civilians who've served their time and paid their dues!
or make cops records permanent, and accountable to their future plans...
I haven't given this exact topic a whole lot of thought but wouldn't it be nice to have some law that after a certain amount of time (Like a prison sentence) and possibly depending on the severity or nature of the crime, people couldn't be compelled to disclose past criminal history on job applications? Treat it kinda the same as medical records?
@@WeaponizedStrumpet I agree. Once a punishment has been served, the tab has been cleared. It's a clean slate thereafter. Records should only be kept for the courts to know if someone is a repeat offender, or for security clearances. For the everyday job, revealing criminal history should not be compulsory. Repeat offenders should lose that privilege though.
@Lesbian Amazon Sister I said that records should be kept for court use to check for repeat offenders. That means if you're applying for a job, then a typical background check wouldn't show the felony. That way the past crime doesn't follow you around forever. This follows a "second chance" mentality.
If the person is convicted of another crime, the judicial dept would still know. The record is only cleared from any publically accessible records, not destroyed completely.
As for the crime you mentioned as being too severe to allow a second chance, then sure. Maybe. Depends what the crime is. But if the perosn was shoplifting or doing drugs or whatever, that charge shouldnt haunt them for the rest of their lives if they turn their lives around and start fresh.
Police: oh come one it’s just some bad apples
People: Well if you don’t wanna throw out the whole barrel, could we at least implement some kind of system to detect and remove those bad apples?
Police: what? No
@JosukeHasCoolHair i lost brain cells reading this
When John Oliver said “that’s probably the only class where nobody will raise their hand and say “when are we ever going to use this?” “ it made me disappointed of the world. I swear that when the time is right I will do everything in my power to make the world a better place, even if it’s just to improve one person’s life a little bit. I have to do this, I just have to.
I'm so blessed I live in Canada, I talked to an officer once, and he told me the that in the twenty seven years he's been in the force, he's never had to use his gun.
Is Canada taking American refugees?
let's hope so...
Kandhu you understand that's the majority of American Police officers as well.
Your point is? The vast majority of American officers don't use their gun either. My Uncle, who was an officer for nearly forty years, once told me that of the 100+ officers he worked with as a police officer, less than ten had ever fired their gun.
We are blessed, but let us not rest on our laurels!
There is a growing corruption here too. Make no mistake. It has old roots and is spreading. We have been better at hiding it as all of Canada has: repressed the Native American issues, has myopic and often unwarranted 'Canadian pride complex', fails to bother with investigations often and has a media that, for so many years, has been in favor of the law enforcement industry-- cloaking the truth of misconduct and bad apples. There is so much waste in the legal system, it has to be a a mess of corruption!
We also, like other countries, automatically give a hero status to those in uniform. The social psychology is akin to us Canadians thinking there is nothing wrong with our collapsing healthcare. Or how 6-7 years ago there growing indicators of a housing crisis but we just ignored the signs as citizens and declared it all to be regular economy cycles, because that is what we were fed.
Exposure of abuse of power by the 'justice system' and law enforcement is only just now starting to boil over and where a meager amount of the population is becoming aware of the stories. Mostly, for whatever reason, some of the media outlets have changed the tune and are covering corruption and allegations more so. It is not just a media sensationalism attention grab, there is truth of corruption that has long been shadowed by a choice of ignorance.
I think Canada is awesome and I respect law enforcement (there are loads of good men and women who hold the right ethics); however, I caution any fellow Canadian to not let his/her guard down for the sake of Canadian pride.
...and this is why he got an Emmy!
and it was well deserved
Because he is white? :D
I ment it as an joke 18:13 , but unfortunately you are propably right...
white privilege but he's still awesome as fuck
Excuse me while I go fetch my God Killer.
The actual protests and riots show that none of the problems he talked about was solved during the last years.
Exactly it’s a shame the ruling class cares so little about his fellow man
The elites are sociopaths.
Karobi Right now they say we should blame the democrats, the media, even the minority communities. I wonder who we were blaming years ago and if the solution going forward will just be to blame?
People voted for a guy who promised them to encourage their racism and xenophobia. What did you expect.
Well, trulo and shit, how a change is possible...
John Oliver and Last Week Tonight’s 3yr old video is still relevant today. Nothing has changed in 3yrs. Hopefully things will have changed 3yrs from now.
Chris Rock put it best, ...there are some careers that you just cant afford to have "bad apples" in... what if some pilots were bad apples?... what if an airline promised you that only 80% of their landings were successful? using "bad apples" as an excuse, especially for a job like the police where professional integrity should be a core belief is just wrong on so many levels
@Ruth Collins cant argue with you on that, but the consequences for their actions have always resulted in either death or losing their license and not being permitted to operate as a commercial pilot after the fact, whereas police have had the proverbial get out of jail card in the event of their infractions
Shray: Since there is a way to uncover a "Bad Apple" mechanic before having a fatal car crash; and a "Bad Apple" surgeon before the patient's funeral, there is a way to discover "Bad Apple" cops before another George Floyd is pinned down to the pavement with a cop's knee on his neck for nearly 9 minutes: It's called Psychological Testing to establish mental, psychological, and sociological fitness for the job BEFORE every cop is HIRED. Bad apples belong on the ground, under the apple tree, if you please.
Nobody finishes the idiom.
A few bad apples spoils the whole bunch.
The bunch is spoiled. Remember that whenever anybody uses the idiom.
No, thier completely different things.
@Ruth Collins
How exactly was George Floyd a bad apple? I really hope I'm misunderstanding you on this, because what you just wrote seems horrific.
Mr. Oliver I think it's time for "Police Accountability 2: Racist Police State Boogaloo"
Re-Hire all the Russ-Thugu-KKKant hate-monger Pigs that can pass a polygraph.
I call this the 'Floyd Standard'.
Really easy... Pass-Fail.
1, have you ever assaulted a suspect that was already handcuffed?
2, have you ever lied about matters of law you investigated?
3, have you ever stolen anything from a crime scene or suspect?
4, have you ever turned a blind-eye to fellow officers' criminal actions?
5, have you ever planted evidence?
6, have you ever searched someone just so you could touch them?
7, have you ever withheld evidence?
8, have you ever abused your authority as a police officer?
9, have you ever perjured yourself?
10, Have you ever caused or took place in injuring a person under your authority?
@@kevink.7597 I agree, but unfortunately polygraph tests are notoriously unreliable, which John covered in the Forensic Evidence episode. And the system can't be self-reporting because nothing change. But I like the idea/sentiment.
been pretty pumped to see this wks episode. pumped in all the wrong ways but.
Just make sure the table he sits at is nailed down to the floor in case he gets angry during the episode and tries to flip it over
@Grailsarvas Where's your proof? You're one of those ignorant ideologist trying to pass off opinions/rumors as facts? It's hilarious that you just posted this considering current events. Do the world a favor and don't procreate :)
You know there's a problem when upon seeing a police officer, you get scared/worried/anxious, instead of feeling safe/protected.
Great point
Sure it's called racism.
You'll only feel scared if you're doing something wrong.
The Wolfrumble Tamir Rice must have been shaking in his boots?
I get scared, but only because I’m worried that their might be a crime being committed nearby because my local police department has a really good relationship with the community, but I know that that is not the case in many cities around me
“Just a few bad apples.” Damn, they were saying the exact same shit three years ago. They gotta change that playbook.
Watching this as of May 27th, 2020. After Ahmed Aubrey, Breonna Taylor, and now George Floyd... truly haunting.
*P.S. I’m aware that Aubrey’s death was not police-related, simply a case of sensationalized vigilantism. Fact is, this has to stop.
algamboa1987 this was over 3 years ago, I really have no hope anymore
Aubrey was murdered by white vigilantes empowered by the white supremacist ideology that has been a basis of European colonization everywhere, not excepting North America. Right now Trump’s open and violent racism has made guys like that feel they can get away with this.
But the father and son were retired law enforcement
Aubury's hunters and killers were formerly police, and that is why nobody was arrested for a month after his murder.
sad that this video was coincidentally made before the last election...
"Some jobs can't have bad apples" Chris Rock
What do you even mean by that?
Some jobs, everybody gotta be good. Like, pilots!
like a doctor or a surgeon. or cops.
@CrystalCat Go re-watch the show!
"There can't be good cops as long as there are bad cops."
"Ten people hanging out on a corner is not a crime"
**cries in coronavirus**
Edit: There was a bit of confusion around this comment so I would like to clarify that I do not believe that quarintine is opression and that I do believe that you should remain at home to keep yourself and others safe.
This comment was two weeks ago? Coronavirus was so old news
@@joshurlay What do you mean?
Joshua Gourlay I sincerely hope this is a joke
@@shot-gi6mr riots
@@dr.ambiguous4913 Well you're right.
Seeing the proliferation of comments to the effect of, "I couldn't tell this vid is _ years old..." is incredibly sad. Yet I am enormously greatful this is here and available to all of us!
More than three years later, this is still relavant and accurate. Yet no one is surprised, it doesn't take an oracle to predict this happening again, and again, and again...
Yikai Yang The situation continues to get worse the longer Trump is in office. Not only does Trump himself frequently encourage violence, but it seems like his bad behavior has given people permission to behave their worst including some members of the police force.
This is depressing.
They didn't even talk about the police who violently rape children and do not become registered sex offenders
Reaching.....^^^^
Very.
TheUltimateBeing01 Z la do your research. How many LEOs being arrested for sex crimes with children in a single month would it take to get your attention?
and this is just in America
it's much worse in other countries
"Yeah, but here's the thing about that. The phrase isn't 'it's just a few bad apples, don't worry about it.' The phrase is 'a few bad apples spoil the barrel.' And we currently have a system which is set up to ignore bad apples, destroy bad apples' records, persecute good apples for speaking up... You cannot look at our current situation and claim that anybody likes them apples."
Best takeaway from this. RIP George Floyd.
Incredibly well said!
Couldn't put it better myself!
"There are bad apples in every job." True, but it's very unlikely that your car mechanic is going to shoot you during an oil change. Or that you'd lose your job because you spent 4 days in jail because a store cashier "didn't like your tone." These are people that can easily ruin and/or end people's lives. They should be held to (at least) a bit of a higher standard. Especially since we're paying for them.
I like that like 3 seconds after it got uploaded, there's already a dislike.... Like I just imagine somebody sitting there waiting every Sunday night ready to dislike the new video from this channel
Of course not. Just some guy named John Miller.
Freida Wang it's the bad apples 🍎
Feel your pain
Mardan Plays his fingers are too short, he can't reach the button fast enough
Hahaha... Right.
Well is 2020 and 3 years later this did not age at all... it may even have gotten younger somehow
It somehow benjamin buttoned itself
@@sv32099 They just use lots of Botox
Idk why people are acting like 4 years is an eon or something. Things have barely changed in terms of policing & accountability since the riots in the _late 60s_ or the brutalizing of Rodney King & murder of Latasha Harlins that set off the 1992 LA. riots - the majority of Americans have just never cared enough about democratic accountability in law enforcement (or about the people who are disproportionately affected/murdered by this lack of accountability, although especially with the increasing militarization of the police, it has serious implications for us all) until now, when they're being forced to pay attention, against their inclination.
I mean, weren’t police ‘created’ as (my English is not so good) but slave catchers?
And then it morphed into a whole host of reasons to lynch people th aks to the state?
Through the internet more and more young people are informed on current events, which is a good thing. With that comes the fact that for some of the younger ones, 4 years is a third or a fourth of their life, which is quite long. For 24 year old people, 6 years is 1/4 of their life, which is still not that much.
Jup, I'm not even American and I'm white and even I know this shit has been going through this same patterns for decades if not centuries. Although I do feel like with the rise of smartphones and cameras, social media and the ability for organizing that those bring to marginalized communities, plus the fact that through the internet way more people are aware of this - up until this point - futile cycle and thus may have the ability to actually break that cycle. As a European watching you guys, I feel like it's make or break time for you right now. You know, no. Scrap that. It's make time, because I cannot believe that you'd let yourself be waved off with fruitless promises again after all that's happened the past... half year, 4 years, 20 years.
They are young and have little life experience.
Finally someone with some sense. RUclips thanks you for not being an ignorant moron like the rest of these fools.
This ep was so dope and real! John Oliver you are a beast and the girl at the end was so powerful and moving!!!
If only we could invent a device that uses electricity to incapacitate someone non-lethally.
Bad idea - if such a device ever were invented, it would likely start off being advertised as a non-lethal alternative to use of lethal force, but eventually just become a pain compliance tool which is rarely used as a force alternative.
OH WAIT
Fuck this is too real
It doesn't work as well as you'd think, actually...
how about tranquilizers gun ?
yeah i dont understand why they need special training for a taser and not for a gun.
Here we are again in 2020, and people wonder why rage is boiling over this time.
Burn it all to the floor and then burn the ashes to the floor.
I live near Minneapolis, fuck their 3rd precinct
e-Hire all the Russ-Thugu-KKKant hate-monger Pigs that can pass a polygraph.
I call this the 'Floyd Standard'.
Really easy... Pass-Fail.
1, have you ever assaulted a suspect that was already handcuffed?
2, have you ever lied about matters of law you investigated?
3, have you ever stolen anything from a crime scene or suspect?
4, have you ever turned a blind-eye to fellow officers' criminal actions?
5, have you ever planted evidence?
6, have you ever searched someone just so you could touch them?
7, have you ever withheld evidence?
8, have you ever abused your authority as a police officer?
9, have you ever perjured yourself?
10, Have you ever caused or took place in injuring a person under your authority?
“I just can’t understand” (shoots unarmed homeless man) “why the public” (tases pregnant woman) “hates me so much” (40% domestic abuse rate) “just for doing my” (body slams elderly woman) “job”
"40% domestic abuse rate"? What is that one about?
Grey Hood I don’t know about the exact number but there is a statistic that a bit less than half of police officers are domestically abusive (to their wives or children).
That's incorrect. They tase the elderly woman, body slam the pregnant one
Damn Shaun king has raised an even bigger army
(pepper sprays protesters) "protecting" (handcuffs six year old girl) "citizens" (plants drugs on suspect) "from criminals" (takes bribes from drug gangs).
And we still don't hold them accountable.
But we WILL.
Wow this is 3 years ago?! And absolutely nothing has changed and cops has even become less accountable? Nice to see how we are “advancing” 🙄
30 years
50 years
You had to know this was gonna happen the second they elected trump
I'm old enough to remember Rodney King and the LA riots.
evolution, but backwards
@@HollowGolem And tell the whole audience please sir, has anything changed between then and now?
I was on a long-term Grand Jury once. It was a six month stint, every other Friday. The first four months were rote cases that weirdly tended to end with "the suspect claimed these were not his pants", and our juicy cases like the officer-involved shooting ones were left until the last couple months. You better believe it was so we could build up a relationship with the cops who were presenting the standard "not my pants" cases!
They didn't do quite a good enough job.
Most of the officer-involved shootings were suicides, one could've been Oscar bait since it involved a sniper duel between people who served in the same war and a suicide-by cop while wearing military medals. It was legitimately tragic, and I'm sure it haunts a few of us.
One involved an officer who shot an unarmed man in the face. We were a contrary bunch by Grand Jury standards, I guess, because once we realized they were trying to pressure us into not indicting him we got all puffed up and were as a group like "the hell we will!" Because he shot an unarmed man in the face, see, and that kind of thing should be properly investigated. Not swept under the rug because the unarmed man had a history of non-violent offenses. Oh no, he's a messy human being! Doesn't mean he should get shot in the face.
The police didn't take it well. They acted like total brats over it. We got glared at and given the cold shoulder, and while none of us thought they'd do anything to us, none of us really wanted to go to our cars alone. It was super intimidating. And all because we wanted them to INVESTIGATE wether proper procedure had been followed when an unarmed man was shot in the face. I don't think anything ever came of it... which is a shame. I bet that man could've used some compensation to help dig out from the medical bills from being shot in the face. While unarmed.
Powerful story. Hearing your personal experience gave me chills. Thank you for sharing!
What? The dude survived???????
@@Mistachill Yup! He's missing about half his tongue, quite a lot of teeth, and his jaw was a trainwreck that he was trying to grow a beard over so he didn't have to look at the scarring, but he made it. He was so relieved that his case wasn't being ignored. I've never been able to find out how it went for him in the end, but I'm glad we at least gave him a chance.
@@HNBur it's very likely charges were dropped by the DA bit the record of charges could remain unless the state it happened in con seals and destroys cases that were dropped. Prosecutors are not dumb and they have been rigging the system and making the rules to the game unimpeded for decades. Making the rules so easy for them not to have to be accountable. Prosecutors are basically immune to the law.
Every time I hear someone mention "a few bad apples" relating to any group of people... it strongly appears that they're completely unaware of the end of that phrase....
" A few bad apples... spoil the bunch."
Corruption, even in tiny amounts, WILL spread if left unchecked.
EDIT:: And this is a lesson in why we wait until the end of a video to make comment..... ah well, at least John Oliver brought it up for those who don't read to comments.
hey yeah i agree but communism didnt spread although we thought it would in the vietnam war etc if you know what i mean... right? idk man sorry
Thank you. I get so annoyed when I hear the few bad apples line for that exact reason.
I agree with Mr. Oliver's point as well but using an adage to make a point creates a simplistic view of the world. But what do I know? I'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut.
what I find the most ironic part of the "it's just a few bad apples" mentality is that often the ones who say that regarding cops will see an extreme act of violence or terrorism with a Muslim suspect and then they'll cry "this is why we need a Muslim ban!" of course this also means the left is hypocritical when they say don't judge all Muslims by the extreme examples but then think this is how all cops act. Hypocrisy comes from both sides in this regard
I learned this one when I was young. There is an Osmond song which is about bad apples spoiling the bunch. Face it, rot spreads.
Body cameras are a no brainer. They increase accountability and provide protection form false allegations against officers.
What are you doing?
Sadly, yes. The US is obviously still hiring badly educated, trigger happy racists with a god complex to police their people, so...
@@florianadolf2256 hmmm...America has just entered its downfall, just like how Britain lost power in the 60's after the Suez Crisis ...Minneapolis looks like a European city after ww2
@@kumbaya69421 it's not incident, it was MURDER
Yeah no shit sherlockx
I did it's time to fix this B.S. once and for all but it will have to happen on a feral level. If the police are not made accountable there will be no peace . all of this was preventable if only the government gave a dame about fixing a problemm rather the pretending there is sent one.
John Oliver is always ahead of his time. When will the world end John?
He really is, in fact you can go right back to 2007 when he used to co-host The Bugle podcast, he had his finger on the pulse and listening to them now he's often been incredibly prophetic.
He's not ahead of time, America is 200 years behind everyone else.
Two things:
- Becoming a professional pastry chef or baker takes more training than police.
- A few "bad apples" who occasionally killed people on the job while working for an airline would not be tolerated.
Beauty School: 1600 hours.
The airline thing is a totally different breed of jobs it makes no sense to apply it to police.
@@bueno_oneub_0 It makes "no sense" to compare it? Please extrapolate and explain.
Airline is a totally different breed of work. Policing usually deals with people who would ambush and kill them if they sit in one spot. And in policing you are eventually going to shoot someone if they shoot you.
@@bueno_oneub_0 Im not sure what your point is then. Police should be held to a higher standard is my point. Are you saying they SHOULDN'T be?
As somebody who has been to prison *just for smoking weed,* the systemic lack of accountability for police makes me believe that "the law" is nothing more than a weapon to use against poor people.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard American Police training is just a few months at the most? Now, I'm going to suggest something that would probably require raising taxes or shuffling over some money from other areas, but there are several other countries where police education takes several *years* and includes extensive hand-to-hand combat training, psychology and an array of other tools that would leave the police feeling safer in the streets than if they just have their guns to rely on in a dangerous situation. And, you know, it gives their instructors more time to see if the police aspirants really have enough nerve to don't freak out and shoot unarmed people on the street.
I mean fuck, what can you possibly hope to cover in just a few months of police training? "Here's how to frisk someone, here's how to fire the gun, now go out there and remember that everyone hates you guts and want you dead"? No fucking wonder the US police is dangerous as fuck, that's like handing a scalpel to someone halfway through the nurse program and telling them they're ready to perform brain surgery.
Also keep in mind, these people get leftover toys from the military thanks to the military industrial complex. I went to high school with people that are entering the police force now (and barely graduated). None of those people should ever have access to a *fucking tank* or an armory full of armor piercing fully-automatic rifles.
While the idea is certainly not a bad one, I don't feel it's practical. I would be interested to know which countries train their Officers for years, without them working on the streets.
Training can only teach you so much before you have to do it for real, with real stress and real resistance that could cost you your life. How long is enough before you have to get the true outcome? More time could be focused on mental health for instance, working with people that really need it. But again how much is enough before they have to go and do it?
I have talked to people about the idea of having "mentors", where following training and someone is on their own they still ride with a second person that acts as a mentor. But that isn't practical if your department is understaffed.
Also no US departments have a fucking tank, that ridiculous. Tracked, or armored vehicles maybe, but no tanks.
Nor do any have an armory full of "armor piercing fully-automatic rifles". Even if you have a bunch, you still have to have shotguns and smoke grenades, so it wouldn't be full.
I beg to differ about the tanks. I drive by one on the way to work, Google sheriff joes tank. Maricopa county has 64 apc's 17 helicopters ans a 50 caliber machine gun yipee ky-yei yai!
Why the fuck are you posting your police force ideas in the form of a YT comment? There's this thing called Reddit you know.
Generalee72 : France !
Wow... that last line was such a great statement! 19:15 "The phrase isn't 'its just a few bad apples, dont worry about it', the phrase is: 'a few bad apples spoil the barrel.' And we currently have a system which is set up to ignore bad apples, destroy bad apples' records, persecute good apples for speaking up, and shuffle dangerous emotionally unstable apples around to the point where children have to attend fucking apple classes!"
Especially the part about persecuting the good apples. Thats a main part, so many good police are afraid to speak out and do the right thing. Thats what happened many years ago when there were so many corrupt NY cops that were taking bribes left and right. Ever see Serpico? that shit happened!
True
When I first heard that, I just turned it on the TV. I thought he was talking about priests until I saw it here.
Gun advocates seem to be the loudest supporters of the police. So the "few bad apples" is rhetoric that they too use when it comes to justifying the idiots that misuse guns. It's the same unaccountable mentality. At some point, the bad apples will ruin it for all of you, and rightfully so.
RyoHazuki224 - and many more true stories of gangster mentality.
Personally witnessed many abuses in North America and abroad...
That shows you how messed up it all is.
Man this video aged like it never aged.
Watching it again almost 4 years later and it feels like it's commentary on something that's happened yesterday next year.
“Some bad apples” now let’s all finish it together, “ruins the bunch.”
love how people immediately jump to "BLM sucks" when the show didn't even mention them.
you're acknowledging your own prejudice.
0:52
iKordz exactly, it's like no one even listens to these videos they just come here to rally.
They do suck! They suck, Feminism sucks....Anyone claiming they fight for "equality" but spreads racism, violence, propaganda, plays the victim card, and so on and so forth sucks! It's funny seeing a white man defend them when all I hear from these people is straight up racism and sexism and soooo many threats towards white people (especially white men) coming from Blm and feminists. O but we're just so ignorant and delusional right? It's the truth!!! Stop enabling and pandering to pieces of shit and call them out on their shit!
You're a fucking idiot. How and why would someone choose to be so ignorant of everything?
+Jesse Bochek. I agree. Just look at the string of comments in response to my post above, lol. I didn't mention BLM, yet it was immediately brought up by people who are in denial.
Let's all wave at the 2023 viewers who'll be reading this in another 3 yrs just like us.
*waves*
Hope everyone survived the pandemic and that 5G is blowing your minds
Ikr
How terrifying is that, Chrissy? It's just insane
@@Ralph85Williams85 True that. I really hope that if it comes true that it's not because we slacked off again but because we are still on it. We've been here so many times, enough is enough doesn't even cover it anymore, but fucking hell, Enough. Is. Enough! 5G for EVERYONE. Freedom for EVERYONE. Safety for EVERYONE. I want to see interracial intersex, trans, gay couples streaming their wedding with 50+ friends and family members, over 5G, recorded by their (perhaps adopted) children! It's the 21st century; let's act like it is!
Societal and cultural (and economic) change are multi-generational things. And there is probably always room for improvement. In 100 years the mainstream will probably think some things we think are fine are wrong. The world will never be perfect, but we can always strive toward that ideal, partially for ourselves, but especially for future generations
If America still exists lol
it only takes one bad apple to kill an innocent, harmless person
same for non police people
Joe Lafritte yes, and we hold those people accountable. But not the police, and that’s an issue.
i don't agree because most of the time police can't be perfect. There are in life threatening situation and it's always hard to assess a situation in a second, or even videos are manipukated so that only to see the police bahaviour. I think the main pb is that u have weapon in ut country legalized. That put everybody fucking nervous.
@@thedoude9418 Being a cop is like the 14th most dangerous job in america, garbage men, pilots, fisherman, and general agricultural workers all have statistically more dangerous and difficult jobs
@@Wildmilly i will be curious to see the study. I am pretty sure it is by number of accidents, which are technical in most of the jobs u quoted. I think the level of stress is not the same when ur danger is coming from other human, which is much more sneaky.
i swear man, sometimes you make me laugh so hard that i have decided to remind myself not to ever get high before i watch you again, you are a real card. thanks for the laughs from one of your fans.
The bad apple comparison makes me laugh. We tend to THROW OUT bad apples.
Or in the case of Bulmers, make cider out of them.
This is truly scary AF we dont have this problem in the UK as police are not armed on the street
If you have a few bad apples, chances are the others have become tainted as well. Best to toss out the whole fucking thing.
Stephen Butterfield not entirely accurate. we do still have an abuse of power. black people, autistic people and others have died whilst in police custody and prosecutions are, again, rare.
Drastic headcase,yes in UK that does happen,like the police van your in weaves back and forth,side to side so your thrown around inside,but when UK cops are armed it's in response to an armed situation,my sister is one of those officers,but police on the beat don't have firearms on them as they do in USA,that's why it's scary af to me and yes I have lived in USA too
it's not the few bad apples i'm worried about, it's the vast majority of apples that will look the other way when they see police misconduct
Officers that speak out against bad apples can be punished in humiliating ways by calling them rats, harassing them, and in some cases can even ignore them in dire situations. The higher-ups that condone the horrendous acts are definitely to blame, but fellow officers speaking out can be punished for being a decent human being
Yes! Don't tell me your a good cop if you stand by and do nothing. That makes you a bad cop. Period.
It's easy to ask others to take risks and make sacrifices.
We didn't put ourselves in those positions though.
Well today this might be the most relevant video ever
Nope, it's the whole orchard.
As a manager, I work side by side with my employees every day; when one of them breaks the rules I write them up! If they attack someone I fire them!
The effect of those "bad apples" destroy the trust that civilians have. People become paranoid, distrusting, or even vengeful. These bad cops are more dangerous than the guns they carry, because of the damage they cause to the reputation of all officers.
Indeed. Enough "bad apples" accumulate, people will think that the entire barrel full is rotten, and we will soon have an entire barrel full of rotten apples that will merely reinforce what people initially thought.
Well said.
Indeed; the example where a man who should not, *ever,* have been allowed on a police force nor to own or carry a firearm, ended up shooting a twelve-year-old because people simply did not read the huge warning sign in his file (or care), is especially poignant in illustrating this fact. Really, it should be a no-brainer; what's the point of a cop so psychotic he, say, kills three vaguely dangerous criminals and thus fosters resentment in twelve more, making each more dangerous to anyone they come across, while making another five turn to crime out of sheer disgust, who would otherwise not have? We need less hate, less violence, less shooting, less cover-ups of corruption and unjust conduct, and less murder. Shouldn't be rocket science, one would think.^^;
In the end, criminals are just people... people who are either too poor to eat (and aren't given any job opportunities), or too hurt and angry to just slot into lawful society, or too spoiled to care about the people they hurt. The latter's a tricky one to fix, but the other two just demand empathy and an attitude of "Let's get these people into situations where they feel good about doing good" rather than "Let's make sure these scum know they're not wanted"...
Raven Witch these are supposed to be protectors of the people, not the hooded figures in the dog park
Yes also, welcome to nightvale
What everyone seems to forget about the "a few bad apples" metaphor is that *"a few bad apples **_SPOILS THE BUNCH"_* ... e.g bad apples create more bad apples.
As if these idiots who say it would open a bin of fresh apples and upon seeing that there are 3 rotten ones go:
"Oh it's just a few bad apples!" And close the lid. Yeah right!
Nerobyrne They do exactly that every time they give a murderer paid vacation and no jail time.
just like when you lay down with dogs you get fleas
***** True, but even a bad apple can kill you if it contains patulin ;)
not all bad apples create bad apples
I Love the ending of that episode. Beautyful metaphores that realy sell the point.
Please remember! When referring to a police officer please don’t say policeman or policewoman, use gender neutral terms like tool of the bourgeoisie and enemy of the people
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
bruh imma steal that one! fucking legend
Lmaii
tool of the bourgeoisie? did I just enter a time machine to 1850?
@@cerebralcaustic about 750 AD, I think. That's the point at which "-man" *was* the gender-neutral suffix, something English speakers forgot over the last millennium (the word for adult male and female at the time being werman* and wifman** respectively, and words like fisherman having no gender connotations...)
Pointless fact, but there you go.
* as in 'werewolf' (wolf-man)
** as - pretty obviously - in 'wife'
One reason why so many people are so hateful of the police might have something to do with the fact that every time they shoot someone, no one wants to release the body cam footage. Just show it to the people and we'll leave you alone... Unless you're hiding something that makes you guilty...
It could also be that police have a belt of tools specifically for apprehending suspects the most non lethal way possible and every time it's straight to a gun.
Like that video where they shoot a homeless white dude for picking up a knife in a non violent way. I mean, I understand the alarm, but he was far away and they decided to shoot him *and then* hit him with the non lethal stuff once he was dying on the ground *and then* send their dog to chew on him.
***** Not a racial thing, but I'd suggest looking up the Paradise CA shooting as another example, they have video of a cop trying to find the discharged shells and he got off scot free.
***** In regards to the difference between Rodney King and the guy I mentioned? The guy I mentioned wasn't black that time, it was just another example of cameras not doing jackshit.
Most times there isn't body cam footage.
In California recently an off duty cop was speeding and slammed his Camero into the back of a family killing them. You guessed it, the cop was let out of jail due to "needing more time for an investigation." They said they were going to charge him with reckless driving, drunk driving, and manslaughter, but they ended up releasing him....smfh
Adam Oliva thats a damn shame. Smfh.
link please?
Drunk driving?
Wow by sheer coincidence a family member of those killed is in these very set of comments.
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vote for crazy socialism and see what is police is about.
The biggest problem that has to be done away with is 'self investigation.' Police policing themselves is just a batshit crazy practice.
It’s weird seeing James Comey in a non Trump-related story
We have been talking about this injustice for three years in our society and it is getting worst. Finally society has to fix the issue of what is reasonable in our justice system today.
Funny how he thinks we can count flu cases, jokes on him we can't do it real time.
@@marcdulberger4207 we've been talking about this injustice for a LOT longer than that since there were slaves in the country
Enter pro police union bloggers ranting in 3.....2....1......
enter thugs supporting blm bs in 3...2...1...
enter racists using the word thug to replace the N word as if we don't know wtf they're trying to say in 3.... 2... 1...
enter people counting down until someone else enters in 3....2......1......
Strawman! Nobody is saying pigs can't use "necessary force". It is excessive force, and straight out lawlessness that are the problems. The corrupt system that rewards pigs with paid vacations, i.e. "administrative leave", whenever they are caught breaking the law they are supposed to uphold.
Enter assholes from every side of the argument looking to do nothing more than antagonize eachother in 3... 2... 1...
About two years ago, I lost two very good friends and the girl‘s boyfriend because a stupid cop decided he wanted to speed around a bend where there was a stop light and hit them head-on and killed all three of them. The policeman got off, not even a tarnish On his reputation and he returned to work. This past Christmas, my sister and brother-in-law we’re headed home from my house. A cop decided he wanted to run the red light so he turned on his lights right before the light as my sister and brother-in-law were in the middle of the intersection. Luckily, Neither were injured, but she has severe PTSD and the cop got off. Cops can get away with anything.
ForeverMe543 im so sorry to hear that :(
It sucks. What a tragedy. Hope u r doing well.
The sad part is that most of the time they turn the sirens on is to get to Dunkin Donuts. I c that everyday. They just wanna get their coffee and hit on the women that make them. 60 minutes a few year back did a report on this. DD is their favorite spot when they r not harassing ppl
Here's a nice cop story where justice was served (and perhaps a bit comically at that)
My friend was about 6 and he was telling us about his Dad driving home quickly because his Mum said something about the baby - he saw his speedometer and thought that it'd be okay just that once. When he got home and realised that she said it kicked, not that she was in any danger, he felt so guilty for breaking the law that he wrote himself a speeding ticket and paid the fine.
James Walker You must be real fun at parties
@James Walker so you expect him to have done nothing at all seems rather foolish cop accountability is bad enough as is at least hes willing to take some responsibility.
Why does Last Week Tonight have the power of clairvoyance? This is such a systemic issue that the episode aged incredibly well.