Fun fact. Cops on average have lower IQ and often fail literacy tests. Furthermore it appears that critical thinking is discouraged in the job, with candidates being selected who lack critical thinking abilities over those that have them.
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teft@startrek.website 10 months ago
Yeah, pigs don’t like to be corrected. Ever.
Sheeple@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Certain departments specifically have IQ tests, in order to ensure you aren’t smart enough to easily get a better job elsewhere.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 10 months ago
I think it’s more nefarious than that. Many departments want a good 'ol boys club where they’re the ultimate authority and they want their officers to fall in line rather than question department actions.
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This internet myth has got to die. ONE case in ONE department, a quarter century ago, does not mean it’s a practice.
Anders429@programming.dev 10 months ago
Anyone got a non-paywalled link?
XEAL@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It sounds like this could be applied to the military too
Sheeple@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The military doesn’t actively exclude smarter people. However they 100% prey on people who are less educated
tquid@kbin.social 10 months ago
And they absolutely hate ever doing anything about bicycle theft in particular.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I have heard that very often. I wonder if bikes are harder to track down than other property for some reason.
Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
They only care about property loss when it involves rich people.
SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Which proves that cops really DO actually do their jobs.
Because protecting the property of the rich is the exact core purpose of policing.
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Given the number of times I’ve seen cops on police forums and r/protectandserve use terms like “bikefags”, I think it’s just the typical cop disgust of anything they perceive to be weak or effeminate.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As a gay cyclist I know I’m doing something right by pissing off cops without doing anything wrong
merc@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yeah, I don’t get that. Bicycling requires strength and endurance. It exposes you to the elements. Why is sitting in a cushy car something some people think as being more macho? Is it that you’re in control of a heavier and more powerful machine?
Localhorst86@feddit.de 10 months ago
smaller, therefore easier to hide. Not registered with a central authority like, for example, cars.
Zron@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There’s plenty of cases where they don’t look for cars either.
Or the cops themselves just straight up steal the car themselves.
My wife’s car was ordered to be towed by, according to the impound lot, the police.
Neat thing was that there was no ticket with the car, no police station within 3 miles had a record of a ticket for her or the car, and the area she had parked had no signs that suggested it was illegal to park where she did, nor does the city have any ordinance about overnight parking.
Best we can figure, is a cop or the tow company that works with the city, just decided to tow a car for funsies and the 500 bucks it took to get it out of impound.
The police and every organization associated with them are corrupt to the core.
snowe@programming.dev 10 months ago
There is bike registration. bikeindex.org
It’s helped track down bike trafficking gangs sending bikes to Mexico. The police just don’t care at all
Redex68@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m pretty sure any petty theft is very hard to track down. Not just bikes, if someone broke into your house and stole some minor things it’s almost certainly not gonna get found. Bikes are the same, it’s very easy to resell them and repaint, and nobory registers bikes.
Rediphile@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Because even if they look for it and find it, whoever is riding just says it theirs and there is literally nothing the police can do unless it was caught on video or there is a meaningful identifying feature like a serial number or something else specific and unique.
Seeing a sketchy guy with a black and red bike with the same bike rack you had isn’t enough to prove anything.
If an officer approached me riding my bike around and asked me to prove it’s mine, I couldn’t either despite not being a thief.
lars@programming.dev 10 months ago
I reported my bike stolen in college and I got a call the next day that they had found it parked in front of a nearby church.
It was stolen on a Sunday. I guess someone didn’t want to be late to service.
thebuoyancyofcitrus@beehaw.org 10 months ago
What you’re entering the third act of your love story and you have to get to the church in time to break up the wedding and declare your love, what’s a little bike theft? The universe will take care of it.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Probably added the theft to the sins they were confessing that day as well.
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
God made them do it!
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 7 months ago
FTFY