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[–] 34 points 4 weeks ago (18 children)

Yep. Cops in my town routinely make more than the mayor with overtime they stole.

https://www.divestspd.com/p/seattle-cops-caught-scamming-overtime

There's a great pic of one of them sleeping in their patrol vehicle.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Poor Piggie needs time to recuperate from a night of drunk driving and stalking women

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  • [+] -8 points 4 weeks ago* (2 children)

    I know you're trying to circlejerk so forgive me for turning the lights on, but:

    If you work 6PM-6AM+ and you have court at 8AM-12PM, then work starts again at 6PM, would you not be tired?

    What about if your shift is 6PM-6AM+ and you have training from 7AM to 4PM, then back to your 6PM-6AM+ shift?

    Both of those happened to me. No matter how much you dislike cops, they can't be immune to fatigue to make you happier.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Wow, those are some terrible management practices. Sounds like the people who run that outfit should be fired and the whole thing defunded & shut down.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 weeks ago*

    Agree with the first, but I'm not an anarchist so I can't agree with the latter two.

    But it sounds like you've conceded the point that fatigue is a very real part of the job, so even if we never hear from moldy_rice I'm glad you acknowledged it.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 weeks ago (13 children)

    Wow. You'd think of all cities, Seattle would hold their cops accountable. I guess my understanding on Seattle was wrong.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    Seattle has some of the worst cops in the country and we have for a long time. You're thinking of weird hipster art and cafe culture, which does exist in a few neighborhoods, but the primary powers are big business like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Boeing.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 weeks ago* (3 children)

    Or my pet theory which is that indiscriminate hate from the public makes an agency worse, not better.

    Why would you want to join an agency if you know the locals hate you?

    Simple: If you don't care what anyone thinks, or even enjoy the hate.

    Obviously, that's going to be a very bad egg.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Haha fuck off, they were shit and then people got rightfully mad at them. Bootlicker.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

    or pigs are shitty everwhere.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    Yeah, it's a shame you haven't reformed them.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    perhaps it's time we just retired the slavecatcher service entirely

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  • [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    The US police hasn't really been a slave-catching service since the days of chattel slavery, but it's possible you have bona fide slave-catchers in your area if you're not in the US. Why haven't you done anything about that?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    The US police hasn’t really been a slave-catching service since the days of chattel slavery

    whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    [banal response with no reasoning to match yours]

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    if you guys had any souls, you'd be intervening with ICE instead of attacking the people who pay your salaries.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Trite meme that ends your otherwise solid comment aside, I suspect I personally would get involved if I knew or suspected criminal wrongdoing from a federal agent, but most cops (like most anyone else) would much rather have a paycheck at the end of the week than feel good about their moral compass.

    But I was fired for refusing illegal orders years before ICE started blatantly breaking the law, so my "if I was in those shoes, I would totally do the dangerous but morally correct thing" is almost as worthless as if you said it.

    Much like in Eichmann in Jerusalem, even those who actively and knowingly participate in evil deeds are more concerned with getting promoted than stopping to think about the morality of it all.

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