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.
I totally agree with your thought here, I’ve thought the same thing many times. I’ve see many very overweight cops stopping at gas stations and whatnot.
How can these guys chase down an assailant? Cops should be required to be fit. I’d say they need to prove weekly they can run a mile in like 8mins? Faster? Then, once per month they need to prove they can do a 5 mile, like 45-50 mins? Seems fair.
I’ve definitely seen fat police officers in other countries.
NYPD is an army with offices around the world and pays as much as $600,000/year to individuals for pension.
They are not a police force; they are a Mafia.
Most small town.police forces are the same.
Their job is not to stop crime; it is to serve the wealthy and crush their opponents.
This is why every American should be armed at all times and ready to defend each other immediately.
Chicago is the same. The CPD union is basically a shadow government.
i have been to the US several times. Have you ever tried to eat healthily?
Its pretty easy. There’s fruits and vegetables all over that country lol
you have to make your own food it’s the only way
Or be wealthy
and hire someone to cook your food or what
Neither protecting or serving are actual job requirements.
This is a common misconception in the U.S., it’s not even the car’s job… that crappy sticker has the shittiest union.
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.
Man, that kind of figures… I bet it was a PR campaign that they paid for. So in a way we all got value out of that lie… nope. No satisfying conclusion to be found here 😒
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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.
Cops with guns don’t have to run… 🤷♂️
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You better run, better run outrun my gunWhy are people upvoting you for supporting school shooters?
It’s a song lyric and an indictment of America for our glorification of gun culture.
I know. Its not an indictment. Read the lyrics. And listen to the upbeat.
Ah, so you know more about the true meaning of the song than the writer himself.
From what I’ve seen, they don’t even learn about the law and often break the law by illegal detainment, searches and confiscation. Cops who served for over 20 years but don’t know people their rights. They often get minimal training while having to serve alone where everyone carries a gun. That’s asking for problems. And now cops in the US are militarized with heavy combat gear, while the majority is white and racist. So obesity is the least of the problems with US police.
Beyond what others have said, different departments have different policies. They’re usually pretty similar to each other, but a lot don’t explicitly lay out fitness requirements.
Cops serve capital, not us.
I mean, where are they? Most cops I’ve seen personally wouldn’t even qualify as regular obese, let alone morbidly.
In a small Midwest town, if the police force has more than 3 members, I bet half of them are classified as obese.
You misunderstand. Cops in the US have no legal obligation to protect OR serve anyone. Check out the NY subway guy that was attacked with a knife while cops watched from 10 feet away behind bulletproof glass. They literally hid in the conductor booth and watched this guy get stabbed in the fucking face repeatedly.
Not only did the guy survive, he actually overpowered and subdued the attacker. Guy brought a suit against the NYPD for failing to protect him when their motto at the time was literally “Protect and serve”. Long story short, the end result is that he got a real live judge to say out loud that police have no actual duty to protect you when it could endanger themselves. Coupled with your observation on the obesity of American cops, it could be argued that walking down the street to issue a ticket could be lethal for the cop in question and therefore they have no obligation to do it, they simply choose to do it out of spite.
They are not required to serve and protect. US courts say so.
to protect and serve is not their job.
“protect and serve” is copaganda, since SCOTUS ruled on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia in late 1981. “Fun” animated video to describe same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAfUI_hETy0
Lookup Philip Brailsford. History of brutality, executed a pest control worker for doing his job with his own personal AR-15 engraved with “you’re fucked” on the side, there is full video evidence of the man crying and begging for his life on his knees with his hands on his head, Brailsford was rewarded for it with a full pension and an early retirement.
And this:
https://reason.com/2014/10/22/man-gets-stabbed-on-subway-guess-how-hel/Also used successfully as a precedent when the cowards waited in the hall while a shooter was on a rampage in a school a few years ago.
I think the subway stabbing is the main focus of the Cracked video I linked. But, maybe it’s a different subway stabbing.
It is, didn’t have time for a video.
Glad so many know these days what they are and do
To protect and serve the rich
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Our law enforcement is a huge joke and the meh pay, high turnover rate, and low bar of entry attracts the type of people you wouldn’t want to be associated with to begin with.
But also, why are small framed 5’3 women allowed to be police?
Fact is, most cops can’t outrun or overpower a lot of criminals who chose to resist or flee. In actuality that’s a pretty tiny part of the job. The rest is tickets, reports, paperwork, arrests with no resistance, investigations, etc. you don’t have to be an athlete or even very physically fit to do any of that. Id rather deal with a fat cop that isn’t a dick more than a slim one who’s a dumbass.
