Did you think cops ever actually stop a problem from happening?

[msc545]

Some very good cops in Idaho did!

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/va71g8/patriot_front_showed_up_at_pride_event_in_idaho/

[lightbulb27]

first I heard of such, interesting. Wise to act in this case.

So the issue here is they were dressed to riot. It's too bad we werent' arresting people during the girlfriend riots and mass destruction, but lessons learned I hope.

I must admit if I saw a group like this and didn't know them, I'd call them in and be concerned... call police. As well, there's a right to free speech that is on the edge, but I get why they acted.

Rioting in Idaho? What? um... one of them was from Virginia... drive up to DC. I don't understand this group...

[exitseven]

Cops do this every day. It never ends up in the newspapers so nobody knows about it

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎😎

[CrimxxDemon]

I don't. Quite personally I despise cops and everything they stand for. Sure I respect detectives, but regular street cops are a different story. They handle civil complaints and generally that's it. Sure you hear the stories about how some cop saved a kid or something else. That's 1/1000 at best. Cops think they have some kind of authority over regular people and that they are better than them. They aren't.

[msc545]

Look at the link I posted.

[Khronuskeeper]

If cops stopped something before it became a problem, do you think you'd hear about it nearly as much as when they fail to do so?

There are way too many police failures, that needs to change, but that doesn't mean we get to froget all the good that police officers do do. It's no easy job, and that's before all the pressure from other cops public failures.

[Fuentes]

I have seen police help solve issues but yes its never reported it. It just a wrapped up call nobody ever pulls

[BillyBalls]

The nutjob gunning for Brett Kavanaugh was scared off because he saw Armed Federal Marshalls out Kavanaugh's house.

[In_Trance]

No that's not their job

[goaded]

It should be. The ninth Peelian Principle, from around 1829:

"9. To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles

[In_Trance]

Yea ok