If anyone has not been following this case, it is actually hilarious.
I am known as a borderline police apologist, but they started wrong, and doubled and tripled down on their idiocy.
Would you agree that when cops do screw up, at least half the time itâs because of ego? Couldnât let go of something they shouldnât have taken personally.
Oh, I would probably say that is true.
One of the reasons I get along pretty well as a ref is if I make a mistake, or if I make a judgement call, I will talk to the coach after. I had a coach ready to argue with me a couple of weeks ago (his wrestler won even though I missed a call), and I openly told him I missed it, and it defused the entire situation. That being said, that gives them trust in me when I donât back down.
Willingness to admit your mistakes gives you credibility.
I saw a story a while back about a soccer tourney where refs were not available for some reason. An 11YO had to do it. A mom argued a call and he red-carded her. She had to sit in the parking lot.
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When my son was very young he played park district soccer and the referees were usually high school kids and they didnât take much crap from parents. Some parents took park district 7-year-old soccer way too seriously.
I tell coaches that I started reffing at 51 and lowered the average age in our area (that is actually true), so leave the 17-25 year old kids alone or there wonât be any refs to replace us in the future. If they want to yell, yell at me, I lost my soul a long time ago.
I would guess this is a key factor most of the time.
Engendered in that is this fraternity-style protection of your own kind. Itâs understandable when dealing with violent criminals, but too often cops get carried away and apply that defense mode when the evidence against someone is thin at best.
At which point the ego/pride monster takes over, and no one will admit they made a mistake. Often they are afraid of being perceived as betraying their fellow officers.
This severely erodes the communityâs trust in the police. Thatâs largely the problem with black citizens vs police. There is a huge deficit of trust, and as the power wielders, the police organizations need to do a better job of handling these situations and managing their image and relationship with the citizens they are supposed to serve.
While I agree wholeheartedly with that, it is a uphill climb with a rock on their back with todayâs media portrayal.
Thatâs true of everything that gets showcased in the media.
Organizations have a lot more power to combat media bias these days with social media, YouTube, etc.
The days when CNN gets to tell the whole story with no rebuttal are over.
I wouldnât say half. Often, it is the heat of the moment. So similar but different. When people have to make quick decisions, sometimes they make the wrong decision.
Agreed and I think it is getting better, on both sides.
One, police know anything they do can end up on social media, and two, departments can use social media to correct false narratives.
One of the trends that has probably inadvertently helped police officers via social media is the âsovereign citizenâ movement. The more people see what officers have to deal with regarding just those idiots, the more sympathy they get.
Or to create them.
Ammon Bundy types?
The title is funny. Lemon pound cake and the fat cop eyeballs it.
The media already does that for the most part.
Not quite that far, I am talking mostly about the traffic stops where some moron says they were âtraveling, not drivingâ.
He made an entire album based on his home video of them.
Oh, and Iâve seen some of the memes posted with signs that they donât have to roll down the window. Citing statutes that if you look them up say the opposite of what they claim.
Or holding up their license to the window, as if the officer doesnât have the right to touch it.
Iâve heard of âpound sand,â but âpound cakeâ doesnât have the same ring to it.