How is someone that gets out of breath eating a donut going to protect and serve anyone?
Never met anyone who was too fat to shoot minorities. 🤷🏻♂️
Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese?
Submitted 10 months ago by snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
BossDj@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Cities in pretty much the entire country are running with an understaffed police force. They’ll take what they can get. I’m 100% pro Union, but another problem is that police unions help protect unfit (literally and figuratively) police from being forced to try harder by abusing protected status health claims. I’ve seen in both police and military, they are handed paperwork if they are not meeting fitness expectations, but nothing ever comes of it.
sprite0@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
understaffed my asshole
Sprinks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I…i didnt realize this needed staffing…
Zenith@lemm.ee 10 months ago
France doesn’t let the police unionize, it’s the only group in the country try explicitly and expressly forbade from unionizing. Police should never be to unionize
kaki@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The only group that can’t unionize is the military, there’s plenty of police unions in France.
octobob@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I live in Pittsburgh and there are literally no cops on duty from like 3-5 AM or something. We haven’t had a police chief in years, and I never see cops unless there’s a violent crime or a car accident or overdose. You can kinda do whatever you want in terms of traffic laws. I’ve never even heard of someone getting a traffic ticket in the city, and most times if you’re actually goin the speed limit you’re a hazard that isn’t following the flow of traffic. Completely different story in the suburbs outside the city.
It kinda rules not gonna lie.
grue@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cities in pretty much the entire country are running with an understaffed police force.
Counterpoint: Americans are already overpoliced and the “understaffing” is only relative to the authoritarians’ desire to make us even more so.
BossDj@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Makes sense. Maybe they wouldn’t be understaffed if they were utilized in places that actually mattered to people
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Additionally, cities that want physically fit officers have unions that demand that they are paid to work out. Cities don’t want to pay for that.
So, usually the fitness requirements are only used when applying but aren’t used when you are in the force.
Damage@feddit.it 10 months ago
cities that want physically fit officers have unions that demand that they are paid to work out
Seems fairly reasonable to me
derry@midwest.social 10 months ago
“They’ll take what they can get.” Except for the smart ones. abcnews.go.com/US/…/story?id=95836
BossDj@lemm.ee 10 months ago
…well shit. Too smart to be an officer is a thing.
verdigris@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Police unions are the only bad union.
grue@lemmy.world 10 months ago
All labor unions are good. Police unions are not.
This is because police unions are not labor unions, since police are not labor but rather the enforcers for the owner class.
floo@retrolemmy.com 10 months ago
They’re illegal in many other countries
kobra@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
So bad in fact, they’ve often made me wonder if any union is worth it if that’s the risk of what they could become.
Bgugi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Neither protecting or serving are actual job requirements.
LemmyIsReddit2Point0@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think NPR or PBS can’t lie on the news or over the air public local news. The over the air news usually will have a PSA opinion piece and it’s usually by the owners and mostly sways right. Cable news is free for all and one sided.
sramder@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is a common misconception in the U.S., it’s not even the car’s job… that crappy sticker has the shittiest union.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 10 months ago
That sticker was exclusive to the LAPD, but it kept turning up in films made in Hollywood set elsewhere, so other regions adopted it eventually too.
over_clox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cops with guns don’t have to run… 🤷♂️
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 10 months ago
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run outrun my gunjagged_circle@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Why are people upvoting you for supporting school shooters?
SassyRamen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t live there, but I think something to do with Dunkin Donuts
Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I believe that they are not allowed. Some of them just are.
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 10 months ago
Cops don’t exist to protect you and they don’t have to be physically fit to serve their purpose: using the threat of violence and the prison industrial complex to protect the interests of capital.