Rosa Brooks and Ian Bremmer join Bill Maher to discuss the systemic challenges facing American police.
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Rosa Brooks and Ian Bremmer join Bill Maher to discuss the systemic challenges facing American police.
Find Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO GO® http://itsh.bo/iioY87.
It’s HBO.
Oh great, just what I want to watch while I’m tripping balls. Thanks bill
ReplyNice
Reply2nd!
ReplyPROPAGANDA 🕎AGENT BILL THE MULTI MILLIONAIRE . . .
ReplyHis mommy was 🕎 a hebrew supremacist who spit out little billy boy . . .
Very insightful
ReplySTOP IT
ReplyShe is right…….but its an easier narrative to just jump to racism.
ReplyThey aren’t evil, just stupid, it’s a set up from the military, and you don’t need to go to college.
ReplySimulation rooms with shoot/no shoot scenarios would help cops train better, just like airline pilots train routinely in simulators.
ReplyIn Sweden, it takes at least 2 years of practice before you can own a gun legally.. And you have to be registered at a gun club. Recommended practice is at least 1 hour a week and you have to past a test to continue beeing a member and you have to partake in local competitions… So, who in Sweden has the time for ownership of a gun…? Not very many! So, 98% don’t bather…
ReplyUmmmm we didn’t ask them they vied for doing those jobs and the money that goes with it
ReplyEdward the Longshanks (The villain in Braveheart) was very clever.
He made it illegal to play any other sport but archery on Sunday to ensure that everyone was trained with a bow. Which made conscripting and training the infamous British longbowmen so much easier.
Might be able to apply something similar to our culture?
ReplyThese talking heads aren’t in the least bit snobby.
ReplyAn All White Panel pushing Copaganda!
ReplyGraduating this semester in math, but thinking about going into law enforcement myself
ReplyThat argument holds no water 21 states now have constitutional carry means civilians can carry a gun without a permit or any training if they so choose but most get training. More states will pass it soon and about 40 plus states civilians carry pretty regularly
ReplyThousands of Black People, including Children, are killed by Cops.
ReplyBut Copaganda Bill couldn’t find ONE to put this into its ACTUAL Context?
Or WHITEY DIDN’T WANT TO?!
The ones committing suicide are the ones that joined with good intentions, then found out how totally insane and non supportive the job is. The system they are hired to protect has been carefully and skillfully manipulated into a total no win scenario for all of us. Get rid of the capitalists and install honest Socialists and we will be on our way to parity.
ReplyIs cop training different state to state? And which states are high in cop crime?
ReplyIt’s like cops want the entire country to burn down.
ReplyThanks for the motivational talk, guys!! 🙈😭
ReplyAmerican training is basically quantity over quality, oh and money savings.
ReplyPanelist: “cops don’t get a lot of weapons training.”
Do we need a new police recruitment poster? “This is a taser. This is a gun. You need to know the difference to be a cop. It’s kind of important.”
ReplyPat Robertson is woke? 🤔
What did he say? “Touch your hand to the screen, and pray with me – Lord, PLEASE help me find my chosen gender neutral non binary pronoun?”
ReplyThis is no light matter people are dying, something has to be done NOW!
ReplyWhere’s your “why young black men kill each other in their thousands over quite frankly … nothing” skit Bill?
How’s their training going ?
I guess you have to tow the line like the rest of the media …..
ReplyShe’s right, even if you’re a good person the police will cause you to fuck people’s lives. Remember that one of the cops who held George Floyd was only 4 months in the job.
ReplyShe’s a real life officer Nolan … Who would of thought … for those who don’t know what im talking about u should watch the show the rookie its really good
ReplyPat Robinson trying to get into heaven now.
ReplyIf cops watch their colleagues commit murders and do not speak up, they are just as guilty – they are enablers.
ReplyNo only cop’s don’t know what they are doing with guns. Gun owners are very responsible with there guns and are a much better shot.and way better trained in gun safety.It’s a fact you can goggle it.
ReplyComparing what I see from our police here to US policing…, there certainly appears the be a lack of uniformity nation wide.., training, deescalation, stepping-back and taking stock.., slowing stuff down….
ReplyOur cops training to give them selves time, work with people, seems that US standard police conversation is full, instant and absolute compliance … with the person handcuffed face down.., for anything..? Nuts
No
Replymental illness so rampant in the US that it is impossible to find anyone who can assimilate more than 2 weeks of training.
ReplyPeople also need more training on how to not break the law in the first place…
ReplyMore training on how not to have outstanding warrants for your arrest…
More training on how to not resist arrest…
More training on how not to take drugs and overdose…
More training on respecting the law…
Cops are told that it’s better to shoot someone to death than restrain them or shoot NOT to kill, to avoid litigation.
ReplyKamala is a horrible VP.
ReplyWhy the videos are getting shorter
ReplyNot every department trains the same….. budget has a lot to do with it. So stop trying to defund!
Replythese clips are getting so brief as to be pointless
ReplyShe’s an apologist for the police but it was sexy when she said fuck 😏
ReplyEvery gun should be registered to a certified owner.
ReplyMy thoughts are that we put chiropractors in charge of law enforcement. Who doesn’t love their chiropractor? Everyone will go home feeling better.
Reply”Warriors”!?…pff…sure
ReplySo maybe instead of defunding police, we should increase funding for training, streamline our police force with much better, yet fewer officers, and beyond that, have police officers be a responding force, instead of a proactive force. Do away with stupid traffic infraction stops and insipid drug possession laws. Let’s have a police force focused on bringing criminals to justice, rather than having to deal with Billy Bob Brubake and Sandy Sue Brubake and their Christmas day argument. And for those who don’t want the police in the inner city, your wish will be granted. Ladata Twanda Bonita Kansas Jones, aka: Peaches, and D’mircus Demetrius L-manda Jones, aka: Baby Daddy, will be on their own as well.
ReplyI guess that explains why after 26 years they still dont know the difference between a taser and a gun
ReplyReally…I clicked on this…to hear about the stressful life of murderers?! Boo-fuckin-hoo! Don’t be a fuckin cop then!
Fuck this bullshit ‘bad training’ argument, black cops aren’t blowing away white civilians on a regular basis. The opposite is happening; what the fuck does that have to with training, rather then overall mindsets and attitudes?
ReplyI had more gun training in summer camp.
ReplyMaybe,. I dunno, DEFUND THE POLICE!. Reallocate resources!! And before anyone says they hate the slogan, remember the last time we had real conversations about reallocating resources with slogan like “We want police reform…”? Yeah, me neither
ReplyDamn
ReplyThem having to be social workers doesn’t give them a pass to harass and kill black and brown people
ReplyThe Training Dirty Big 🤫 secret! That’s f’ed up on so many levels!
ReplyThe progressive trope: Everything good is bad, and everything bad is good.
ReplyWe in America could learn some things about policing and training from our friends in England, Germany, Japan and even Canada. In my opinion they should be more involved in community matters, even walking or riding the best more. More training is needed especially in a ever changing environment. Also being on probation should be at least 18 to 24 months. Police Officers should be trained with this motto: ” Treat Other’s Like You Would Want To Be Treated.”
ReplyI’ve ALWAYS known this… I have been involved in law enforcement for years…
ReplyAs a matter of survival, both literally and emotionally, Cops develop, quickly, an “Us versus Them” mentality, and every one of us are “Them”.
ReplyThe solution is simple, defund the police. Take a portion of the funding and place it in social programs, housing, mental health, etc.
ReplyStop the BS pity party for these murderers. I really used to like Maher, but i think he has been leaning to the right a little heavy. He is a millionaire so
ReplyIts to be expected.
The left has made cop recruitment so much worse. Good luck with policy reform, though.
ReplyI won’t call her a liar. But I will firmly say her experience is not representative of all police agencies. Not even close.
Replywow.
ReplyAs someone who has trained cops I can’t agree with her premise. That many cops are woefully untrained.
However it’s not the weapon that they are untrained with. It is the many other facets that exist within the world of law-enforcement and not within the world of self-defense.
Tactical retreats for example. Where are you simply wait for back up or defuse the situation until you have back up. Until there are five of you and one of them.
They are untrained and non-lethal tactics.
Effective methods of restraint. Controlling a situation.
You’re sort of implying that the reason people keep getting killed is because they are not effectively trained in the use of a lethal weapon. That’s incorrect. They are not effectively trained in the use of lethal force.
When you are defending yourself the threat is coming to you. That’s easy. But when you are a police officer and you are interjecting yourself into situations your discernment regarding what is a situation that justifies lethal force must be exponentially more acute.
But if I may be so frank I would wager that this woman was never put in a situation where she had to make that decision.
Because I’m telling you it’s a very intense moment.
Now granted as a police officer you signed up to put your life on the line. As a civilian defending myself I did not that’s why it’s different for police and civilians.
But this is a two-way blind street. Because you have onlookers who don’t seem to understand that just because a person was an arm did not mean your life is not in danger. It did not mean they were not a threat. And then on the adverse you have police officers who do not understand it simply because a person is not complying or is resisting they are not a lethal threat.
What it boils down to ultimately is that while these kinds of decisions are split second if a police officer makes an error they must be punished for it the same as a civilian would be in a self-defense situation. The burden of requirement that I as a civilian would have to meet for shooting someone is and should be much lower than that have a police officers. Because I can’t call for back up. I’m not wearing A belt at my waist line equipped with varying degrees of weaponry. I don’t have a radio. I have a cell phone yes but it’s not the same. The reason it’s not the same as because the second you touch the button on your radio you are speaking to everyone that is on that frequency at all ranges. So the minute you say “officer needs assistance at“ helps on the way. You don’t have to send a text and wait on them to answer or make a phone call and hope they answer. They heard you.
Now granted I’ve only seen three minutes of this interview but tragically this is a situation that gets very reduced and oversimplified.
However she and I agree on the initial premise that being cops are woefully under trained. Not with their weapons. Because any idiot can pick up a gun learn how to use it and learn how to defend themselves with it in terms of using it in a couple of hours. But it takes development of muscle memory through repetitious high stress training to develop some of the skills these people need.
ReplyI like the Social Worker’s with the cops if something goes down the Social takes the hit and the Cop will Live to ride with another Social Worker another day …
ReplyThis is really valuable and insightful. It’s true that we ask police to do everything, and the essence of their job often includes danger and dealing with the worst human behaviors all the time. It feels like this is the time for a total rethink and redo on policing. Much like teachers, we place enormous blame on these people when things go wrong without the right support structures to help them succeed. This doesn’t absolve police when they obviously abuse their power. But we also need to acknowledge how hard that work is and figure out what they need to make it better. And same for teachers. More humanity in our response. Less blame.
ReplyIt took me 2 years at a community college to become a electronics technician. Mean while the police academy at school would be done in one semester. Less than 6 months. Very backwards.
ReplyWe would not need police if people didn’t try to one up other ! If all obay laws no enforcement needed . Lol
ReplyPolice aren’t meant to alleviate the mega-problems of a degenerating, deteriorating society. They’re overwhelmed and stressed out in these big cities where every day they have to deal with the results of multi-generational poverty. Some react by becoming deterministic cynics, others, like the gun-for-a-taser woman are simply so high-strung that she couldn’t think straight. Poverty is what’s really behind all this, not “evil” cops. Are we ever going resume the War on Poverty, or are we just going to jump on a slogan bandwagon like BLM and ride around making mean faces while the cameras are rolling?
ReplyRosa Brooks wasn’t a cop, she was a part time reserve police officer. She went through a modular academy and had had to be with a training officer while on duty, and only worked a few hours a month…. She’s really overplaying her knowledge and experiences.
ReplyShe’s right. I was in an academy and everyone around me sucked ass at shooting
ReplyWhy is it that nobody ever calls out the actual criminals who put the police in these situations to begin with?
Reply“A lot of people walking around with weapons who don’t know what they’re doing”. I am afraid that statement describes not just the police forces of most states, but most American firearm owners in general.
ReplyJello Biafra says we should hold elections for police officers and I completely agree.
Replythey need to do away with the police unions who lie their asses off for obviously guilty cops
ReplyYa too many expectation from a cop. They are just humans right, Sure. That’s why Cops should be chosen like firefighters.
ReplySorry but that last line was garbage. What system screws people up, the law? Resisting arrest? I would like someone to let me know how many cases where the person who died in a police shooting was because of just an innocent bystander minding their own business compared to the overwhelming number of blacks killed by blacks (still don’t see much BLM activity for Officer Dorn)? And how many of these cases where someone died would not have been an issue if they had not resisted arrest? Media scaring people to be afraid of the cops ain’t helping much either. Signed a Christian, Libertarian person of color (who has been stopped by the cops a few times and lived to tell about it). Trump (or DeSantis) 2024.
ReplyIt’s not profitable to train for proper use of deadly force.
ReplyBiden and Democrats needs to pass legislation law in congress. To reform the Police. Abolish Qualified Immunity. Don’t trust the reScambliCons. They don’t want to reform the Police. Make crooked cops to pay in prison for their crimes.
ReplyI have always been amazed at how little training police officers actually get considering the amazing difficulties they face at work every day.
ReplyLove Bill for providing content that actually wants to give a thorough critique of how policing works and the inherent problems with it, beyond just the dimension of racism.
ReplyI really like her
ReplyA dirty little secret about cops is not a secret!! We have been screaming that the police don’t know what they are doing for years! It falls on deaf ears.
ReplyRequire a college degree. 5X as many citizen complaints go against cops with only a high school diploma. Thats from a California study recently. As just one example.
ReplyEverything has a cost. Do we think a police force that spends, say, 5 hours a week focusing exclusively on their gun won’t have any problems? Different problems, perhaps, but problems nontheless.
ReplyI worked as a high school teacher for awhile and my opinion of current teaching profession, with its mission creep- more like run up- of duties and responsibilities looks similar to that of cops
ReplyThe length of training required to be a cop in America is lower than what is required to be a cosmetologist. That’s a sad and frightening fact. Also, since police work started as a blue-collar job, it never really professionalized. It is still a workforce that is for the most part not very educated. Roughly 70 percent has no college degree and like Rosa Brooks said, they are thrown into a job after just a couple months of “training” and with some powerpoint slides as remedial continuing education every couple of years.
Reply#Truth
ReplyWhy is everybody forgetting that Mr Daunte Wright had a lengthy criminal record of armed robbery, extortion, running away, escaping from police, possession of illegal fire arm and was attempting to escape when apprehended. He wasn’t exactly studying Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Univ of Minnesota! I get it that police are out of control – but what about the the people with lengthy criminal background? Do they bear any responsibility?
ReplyThere may be some decent, compassionate cops around. For the most part they aren’t very sophisticated or particularly intelligent, IMHO.
ReplyWell I am done with this show if they want you to pay now!!! The way this is done is bad business. I wonder if Maher knows this
ReplyTraining and working conditions of the police must be addressed more so than telling them they are evil or to defund them or to glorify them as some type of irreproachable heroes. They are just as human as anybody else and we need to look at the conditions and improve it first and foremost to see any real change!
ReplyBill you make uniquely insightful observations on topics about which you’re clearly well informed. But you’re flatly ignorant on policing. This guest’s “revelation” is a laughable misrepresentation. Police officers use training guns throughout the academy, including practical exams they have to pass. The “two weeks” is a transition to a real gun they’ve already learned how and when to use. And if they don’t pass state standards, they get extra training or are dropped.
ReplyBill should really get Jocko on to discuss this. Makes same points
Reply*At least they aren’t selfish like the way union teachers have been acting during the pandemic*
ReplyWell that’s why every cop in Finland must pass a 3 year college education=police academy before even become a rookey beat cop. Because their role is so versityle.
ReplyA hairdresser/barber gets more training and scrutiny than a rookie cop in the USA.
ReplyTo whom exactly was the lack of training in any area, including firearms, in law enforcement a secret?
Replykind of like poor republican voters… people walking around, not knowing that they’re voting against their own interests…
ReplySocial workers have the same dirty little secret, lack of training
Replylook it up… duration and quality of police training in Germany… it’s not rocket science
ReplyTeaching people to be safe would not feed the economy. Nuff said.
ReplyBill would you like to go on a date? Let me know 🤞🏽
ReplyHere cops go through 3 years of training and the focus is on deescalation.
ReplyCops should have minimum university education
ReplyOf course we completely ignore the fact that the majority of people being shot are also contributing to the problem by fighting and resisting the cops.
ReplyAs a medic who worked with cops… They and medics too work with the dregs of society… There are 2 types of cops in general those that are there to help and those in it for the power…
ReplyWE NEED TO DO THIS NOW or are you scared of boys in blue customes?:
Reply*1. ABOLISH QUALIFIED IMMUNITY* for all cops
*2. OUTLAW ALL POLICE UNIONS*
*3. Switch Internal Affairs (IA) to a Citizen Review Board (CRB)* (with no current or retired cops or their relatives/friends on the the Board)
*4. DEFUND ALL PRESENT AND PAST POLICE PENSIONS* (hey they never really worked for it)
*5. REFORM & Nationalize THE POLICE* (Camden, NJ did this years ago and it worked! Defund and rehire new obedient officers!)
6. Officers found guilty of knowingly engaging in criminal acts while under the badge (murder, extortion, battery, assault, menacing, narcotics distribution, etc.) will be automatically be sentenced to the maximum jail time under the law.
7. Officers fired or dismissed due to illegal actions or other misconduct should be barred from serving in any law enforcement nationwide – you can’t simply shuffle problem officers from one jurisdiction to the next (see the murderer of Tamir Rice as a notable example).
8. No knock warrants are abolished.
9. Civil Forfeitures are abolished.
10. Officers who are found guilty of the murder of citizens will have their pensions seized to recompense the aggrieved victims.
11. Only highly trained SWAT are allowed to carrie pistols/long guns/guns/rifles/etc
12. Police officers should be subject to psychological evals in six months intervals (or as needed and unannounced) by independent professionals and have access to therapy for themselves and their family also as needed.
13. Apart from the biggest of major jurisdictions, all police departments will henceforth be demilitarized – no more APCs, tear gas cannister launchers, full tac gear, etc.. They are all to be liquidated. If you can’t do the job without all this offensive gear, the you don’t need the badge or the gun. This isn’t Call of Duty.
14. Police Academy training will be far more rigorous, and trainees will be paid a small stipend to attend that at least 8 month to a year of training. Training for police of citizens should be equal to or greater than that afforded to military trained to kill enemies.
15. Police officers should be from the municipalities they intend to work in.
16. Threats of arrest should be made felony arrestable offense.
DO IT! or are you sceeerd of boys in blue customes?
Way to brush over the suicide facts Bill.
ReplyIm a minority, been in the USA for 35 years, hv been stopped by the police many times n never had any problems with then, they always treated me fair, if u r a idiot n fight then, they will fight back!! Comply do not die idiots!! We back the blue in Plano-tx!!!!!
ReplyHoly Fuck Bill Maher, I can’t even understand how it’s possible to be this ignorant. He was not arrested for an “air freshener”. He was arrested for a warrant for aggregated robbery. I.E. Threatening to kill somebody with a gun unless they gave their property.
You’re loosing me man. You don’t even bother to educate yourself about the BASIC facts of the events you talk about.
ReplyI entertain people on my channel too.
ReplyI too don’t think that most cops are out to get us. I think they can get stressed, overworked, overlooked, underpaid just like us all. However, something is off abt their trainings though.
ReplyShe is being intentionally misleading when she said “We have a lot of people walking around with lethal weapons that don’t really know what they are doing.”
ReplyGood Gawd; the USA is awash in hand-guns and assault weapons and you wonder why this shit happens all the time? No wonder cops are paranoid. A cop has to assume that most encounters may involve a hidden gun and any escalation could end badly very quickly cos at the end of the day the cop wants to go home to his wife and kids. The bottom line is you always follow the policeman’s directions and don’t do anything stupid. If you feel it is a false stop/arrest then contact a lawyer. There should be strict conditions for owning a hand-gun and assault style rifles should be banned.
ReplyRemove
Replyguns from cops, get rid of 2nd amendment. Problems solved.
Cops and pubic school teachers are the wall that separates the general population from the mass social dysfunction of US society. Go to the front office of an inner city school and watch how parents yell at clerks, teachers and then admin…. demanding this or that for thier child. Or after their child physically hurt a teacher or students, screaming in denial. I’ve seen it man times. And the staff is supposed to stand their and take it.
ReplyCops are asked do an almost undoable job…no amount of training can keep a human from not personalizing , not reacting to daily verbal abuse, physical abuse, seeing the worst in humanity and not reacingt at some point. I’ve seen seasoned teachers lose it on a kid after being F’bombed and disrespected…Except for a few all of us have a breaking point.
I put more rounds down range in a weekend than most cops fire in five years. People have no idea how shittily cops are trained.
Replyhttps://youtu.be/uj0mtxXEGE8
ReplyWithout excusing any of the recent awful acts of what…, racism, incompetence, poor training, I would like to highlight the uniqueness of the USA cops situation of fearing for their lives at every traffic stop or pursuit on foot. In the end the stupidity of the 2nd amendment bites back in the form of a violent society, where it’s not unthinkable to be afraid for your life in these situations that would be a lot less dangerous in any other country. But hey, that’s the way you like it, isn’t it?
ReplyDo you really believe that the right to carry makes for a better, freer society? Empirical evidence comparing current USA Democracy status and the others countries with solid democratic institutions prove you wrong.
Cops are trained. They are trained to kill black people and treat the whites like Dylan Roof.
ReplyI agree. Cops have a tough job! They need more training and support like counseling a mental health and the ability to share the burden of the job by calling on professionals to help when it is needed..
ReplyCops need to give their lives to Jesus Christ and have The Holy Spirit painstakingly train them.
ReplyIMO we need overall less police, and the police we have need higher quality training. Along with this is the need for more Social Workers to handle the ever rising mental health issues in this countries populace that is rapidly increasing. This could be an entire new sector for jobs and schooling as well.
ReplyIt’s almost like every time a police officer does the wrong thing and all the platitudes about “more training” or “better training” come out, nothing actually happens and they are still inadequately trained. When they are spending big on military-style equipment but don’t think that the lives of those they are supposed to protect and serve are worth enough to properly train their staff, why shouldn’t the police be defunded? Right-wingers are supposedly about small government and less government waste but they seem very keen on large police forces and have no regard for the money being wasted on toys by those police and the lives wasted as a result.
ReplyThe kkk can’t pass a simple G.E.D test, so they make it easier for these stupids
ReplyDefunding the police is not gonna improve their training by the way
Reply😳
ReplyShe’s so ignorant. She had one anecdotal experience which I highly question (Bill did not) and extrapolates it across literally hundreds of departments all with different training requirements. True dumbest Democrste propaganda. This from a leftie.
ReplyPolice Officers keep their firearm holstered 99.999% of the time and only an idiot would make them pull it out. Think about that.
ReplyIt’s only going to get worse, unless the police are being charged and convicted on a routine basis, when they are clearly in the wrong.
There are a lot of young sociopaths in the US, who have grown up knowing nothing but, “Cop murders unarmed person, gets paid vacation, gets acquitted.” It’s the perfect occupation in their eyes.
ReplyThe truth is cops are glorified security officers. I work in Security and the culture is eerily similar. Hardley any training, and the main objective is to avoid accountability.
ReplyPreach lady!
ReplyPolice need to police the community they live in only , white police work in minority communities with ugly intentions, cause they don’t care about anyone that lives there. Their children don’t go to school with the kids of the the ppl they arrest that also destroys the family. It use to be like that but quota wasn’t being met & jails weren’t as packed
ReplyHardest partying fuckers out there as well. Ex wife BFFs with the daughter of the Tulsa Police Dept (still one of the most racist). I found myself at an “after party” full of off duty and not a few on duty officers. I’ve never seen so much blow and EXTREMELY drunk driving cops. Lots of sexual harassment towards the females at the party too, badge or no badge. We have to REMAKE our security forces from the top down.
ReplyGive people power over another and they will abuse it……
ReplyIllegal guns in Chicago are trafficked in from Mississippi and Indiana. Another mass shooting in Indiana, the “Heartland” of America
ReplyI’m with these crazy leftist lunatics, I say get rid of the Police forces in all these blue state paradises, I’m sure it’ll work out extremely well. Just stay out of the red states though, we are fine
ReplyGasp!!! American cops are under trained??? No… I don’t believe it. Btw great work on your second amendment whatever. That looks like it’s really working out for you… Idiots.
Replyshocked that a man this outspoken and intolerant of bullshit is being so soft on the matter.
ReplyCops are not trained enough. But it order to increase training you will have to increase spending. So don’t expect much change
ReplyMost people talking trash about police have never attempted to deal with recalcitrant citizens without the use of authority or force. Yet these cowardly dishonest citizens are delusional in their imagined wisdom and cast their ignorant opinions against the ones who would die to protect the cowardly and their loved ones. All police officers should resign and let the self righteous cowards protect themselves.
ReplySome don’t really get enough training from their parents at home either
ReplyI am a retired cop and yes most are good men and women who do and/or maybe sometimes make mistakes, but usually try to do the right thing everyday….and yes there are a small minority of bad cops who should not be working in law enforcement…..the cop in Minn. who shot the kid with her firearm instead of a taser should have never have been a cop in my mind…..in what I saw as a slightly dynamic situation she had a total brain overload and went full mental limp noodle mode…..she had 26 years as a cop and was no better then a 12 year old child with no training on that traffic stop……but I do not think she intended to shoot that young man…she just could not handle a medium stress situation ….
ReplyShe was a “reserve officer” not FULL TIME . I’m sure she was not allowed to take the weapon home .
ReplyMeanwhile if you try to give them more training it would cost $$$ , no mayor or chief will put his job on the line to pay for that amount of training . It’s always about money , tax the rich Chardonnay Antifa types to pay for all that training .,
If the police know they are not getting adequate training isn’t that the role of the police UNION leaders to lobby the politicians? Instead, all they do is come out every time to defend the indefensible when their members are in trouble.
ReplyTeachers have to do all those Jobs and More….
ReplyThey’re your guests, Bill – more zip it and let them talk.
ReplyHow many times have you heard that a soldier got out then decided they wanted to become a cop. Almost like an adrenaline junkie looking for action, rather than wanting to serve and really protect the public?
ReplyThink Andy Griffith, the sheriff of Mayberry. No gun, no attitude, no ego, and try to be a friend to everybody.
I am not saying that all cops are like that, but there seems to be quite a few of them out there with attitude.
They can’t be all things, in all situations. We really need to rethink this protect and serve thing.
You have a finder-bender….
You don’t need a person with a gun!
If you caught speeding, you don’t need a person with the gun to give you a citation!
Much like a meter maid you can be ticketed for the fine, that you can not to choose to pay or you get served with A warrant to appear in court.
If you are homeless and on the street, you don’t need a gun, you need some help.
If you are acting crazy on the street, you need a medical professional to help you.
If the bank is evicting you from your home, you need the help of a social-worker, not a gun.
If your home gets broken into, you need an investigator, not a gun!
If your child runs away, you need a social worker or counselor, not a gun!
Laws can be changed. If you get caught shoplifting and they send an investigator and you refuse to go with them, you get charged with resisting arrest, doubling your problem, then it’s time to get a lawyer, your going to jail.
A few few simple changes could make a world of difference!
It shouldn’t be that hard to figure it out.
Before you respond, give it a little thought.
Maybe you can think of a few yourself.
This could be a very interesting project to see who gets some of the best ideas. It could even be worth your time.
Let’s try to keep it civilized and see if we can come up with a solution that could make all the difference.
Good luck and best wishes!
There are a lot of good police out there doing a difficult under trying circumstances but blind Freddie can tell you that there is a need for reform for how policing is done in the United States. I’m an Australian and in the 1980’s and early 1990’s my state (NSW) had the most corrupt, bigoted, apathetic, and morally bankrupt force in Australia. It took a Royal commission into corruption, a clearing out of the many rotten apples, and a total reform from the ground up, from recruitment and training and application of the law on the best, right up to the boardroom level where policy is made and implemented. Most of the old guard was ousted (the old head kickers and the ones that took bribes) and they went about totally rebuilding the entire police service of NSW. Recruits now have to complete tertiary qualifications in policing prior to enrolment as well as meet physical, psychological, and ethical standards. They also recruit from a broad section of the community, not just heterosexual Anglo Saxon males, but from all sections of the community to better reflect our society and to relate to the public. Indigenous recruits are especially encouraged so as to have people better equipped to deal with cultural sensitivities as well as send a message to the Aboriginal community that police are not their enemy (as traditionally it has been the case).
ReplyThere are so many facets to how policing has been reformed that it’s difficult to cover in a comment section of a youtube video but the general point is there is a way that reform can be implemented and work… but it’s got to be with community support. I’m sure the good coppers out there are absolutely gutted every time there’s a George Floyd or a Breonna Taylor or the many, many, many incidents of excessive force, racial profiling, corruption and abuse of power.
I recognise there are unique problems that American society has that isn’t as prevalent in Australia, such as guns, high level of homelessness, drugs, etc, but that just means that as a society you need to pull together and hammer out a solution. We can’t expect police to be society’s broom. A lot of the work load that’s being foisted upon them is unfair and they are ill equipped to deal with and that’s what makes cops burnt out and feel unappreciated and underpaid.
America has to come at this problem with a multifaceted approach by not only law reform, but drug reform, gun reform, and reform in how the mentally ill and homeless are treated. Until those problems are addressed and you keep using cops as a bandaid for a solution that needs surgery, society is always going to be sick.
One other problem I’ve noticed is the number of combat veterans who become police. That might sound good on the surface, someone with military training who is disciplined and knows how to use a firearm makes perfect sense… but combat and policing are using vastly different skill sets. Policing is deescalation and apprehension whereas combat is neutralisation. I’m not saying don’t recruit veterans, just be extremely selective in who you employ and remember the skills required are not always transferable.
Police officers should have to train for at LEAST 1 yrs STRAIGHT before being allowed on big city streets. And. There has to be a better way to WEED OUT THE RACIST COPS.
ReplyThis 3 minute clip is TERRIFYING. If we suspected that cops don’t have a fucking clue what they’re doing… now we know.
Replyit’s not about cancelling the police it’s about making them better.Always trying to destroy things instead of fixing them, is no way to move forward.
ReplyHey, why don’t you preach to people to not resist!!!
Replya few cops wake up and say that!!!! LOTS of KKK are cops, its a problem
ReplyIf anyone can eventually figure out and perfect policing in America they will have accomplished something truly amazing. The problems with hiring, training, and maintaining a police department is a struggle in every state. If you were forced to come up with a reason why some departments and/or cops are plagued with problems it comes down to you get what you pay for.
There are a massive number of individual law enforcement agencies in the United States and I would not be surprised to learn that a significant number have little to no standards. I have known more than my fair share. You can live in a state where your State Troopers have a lengthy hiring process with high standards, a strict and lengthy military style boot camp academy, a well designed post academy field training program and a lengthy strict probationary period but at the same time this same state will have many other police departments that have little to no standards.
Pretty much all of the police departments in my state are not that hard to get a job with. Simple application, simple agility test, simple written exam, basic background check and a short 3 month academy followed by about 3 months of being with a field officer and you are good to go here is your AR-15 and take home car. Outside of the State Troopers who run their own academy all the other law enforcement agencies in my state rely on a single police academy to quickly produce new recruits and once you are certified you can simply bounce around departments, especially those smaller one’s that have a high turnover rate. Graduate the academy but then told you are not being retained because your field officer(s) has determined that you are not suitable to continue and they will usually let you resign because a resignation is so much easier to process than termination. Almost all facing such termination willingly submit their resignation because they too realize there is a benefit to avoiding being fired. Private sector does the same thing. So you quit and keep your academy certification and now it’s off to one of the more desperate poorly paid departments who can’t afford to be as picky but at least you still got your badge and gun.
I really don’t want to diminish her experience but she was a reserve officer and it’s not the same as full time. Shaquille O’Neal and Steven Seagal did the reserve police officer stint. She literally did it as a research project, but she is correct when she says law enforcement firearms training is short and simplistic. Not too long ago a major police department handed new recruits their gun and shield immediately. From day one in the academy they were wearing a uniform and a badge and carried their gun to and from the academy. They were handed a gun and told try not to blow your foot off while going through the academy. Eventually this stupidity was changed to what is referred to as gun and shield day. This is a day or two before graduation and graduation comes after slightly more than 6 months of academy training. The firearms training in the academy is approximately 3 weeks and outside of those with military experience a lot of recruits have never fired a gun and yes they too require that everyone needs to re-qualify by going to the range one day every 6 months during their career. It’s not hard to show up and put 50 rounds in a piece of paper in a safe and controlled environment. This is one of the biggest reasons why a lot of rounds are discharged when officers eventually find themselves in a gun fight. There really isn’t a lot of ways for a police academy to truly teach real life. Even the military has tried to do their best to prepare soldiers for a time when they might actually experience combat but there is no perfect way to artificially recreate the danger, fear, and adrenaline that comes from someone who is legitimately trying to kill you with a weapon.
Here’s a fact about being a police officer. The best weapons you can have in the field can not be issued because they are common sense, strong nerves, and the ability to effectively speak to people and too many people at every level of law enforcement lack one or all of these necessary skills. Can’t walk around nervous, can’t believe that you can say anything to anyone, and you need to have common sense. We all know people who think they have tons of common sense when they have none and those kinds of people make for bad cops. Solid people skills get the job done. Here’s another fact. There are cops who want nothing to do with other cops they work with because they know they should not be on the job but can’t do anything about it. I’ll give you a true story. I knew of a police officer who was mentally challenged and I don’t mean people thought he was nuts. This person was so obviously operating at the mental level of a child that his commanding officer had him sent to the department medical unit to be evaluated and they did in fact diagnose him as having the mental capacity of a child. The rumor I had heard was he had the maturity of a 9 year old and that was spot on. The CO basically told the doctor that he needs to be dismissed from the job but the doctor informed him that this diagnosis was not enough to be let go. This is a true f’ckin story! I could tell you very specific details that occured and eventually ended this scary career before someone got hurt or killed but I am truly afraid that someone would read this and know exactly who I am talking about because it was so messed up. Maybe the real scary part is the fact that they didn’t fire him but instead had enough issues with his job performance that it placed enough pressure on him to resign. I also have other deeply disturbing stories of people who were not right for law enforcement and their careers did eventually come to an end but only after unnecessary loss of life but I think I made my point.
Good luck trying to fix the problems because at the end of the day it’s a problem that has no known or easy fix. This woman being interviewed has an incredible resume but I can guarantee you she can’t fix the problems. You want to fix it by acting like a child and imagining that by defunding and doing away with police is the answer go ahead but that will replace one set of problems with something truly scary. You’ll so love survival of the fittest as you wonder why people didn’t come together in perfect love and harmony.
ReplySuicide, domestic violence and stress run rampant in American policing
ReplyAs a soldier in the army for 20 years I fired 10,000’s in of rounds. These guys not know how to use their weapons is freaking horrible!!
ReplyAll cops are bad
ReplyAmerica come on sort your screwed up cops they are like a bunch of Gestapo trained racist thugs.
ReplyBill is beginning to sound like an old curmudgeon. The reason the Ian was being self aware about ‘3 white folks at the table speaking’ is because …historically + presently many convos about “race” sans “non-whites” tend to make a wrong turn, and are often tone deaf. But he’s right in saying that it’s okay to talk About “Race” with or without the usual targets present.
In the USA Police are set up to fail. That failure often gets passed down to the poor and non-white. Which infers that the issues are at least somewhat rooted in Race + Socioeconomics. Before they’re cops most folks grow up Segregated and are probably biased, prejudiced, and racist towards Black people – even some “Black” people may feel a way. That bias gets exacerbated with the uniform and gun, because of the State sanctioned Power. The Unions and Qi puts a force field around a self induced American problem.
ReplyYoung people do all of those items and make life and death decisions every day with few mistakes in way more stressful and dangerous conditions . They are called UN Peace Keepers, and some of the best are from Africa. It’s all about training!
ReplyThere is little to no firearms training because “This is America!” and they probably assume you already know how to use a firearm.
ReplyOh Rosa, any excuse ! No one asked them to be a medic ! boo hiss. This is a simple lack of leadership
ReplySuicidal cops?….great. Just what we need. The most important thing for them is to make it home, killing civilians in the process, and then they lollipop their sidearm. I like to think that my tax dollar bought that bullet. F.T.P!
Reply“Cop dirty little secret” huh. About gun training and used of gun? Not much training or no training period. Versus the peoples he or she wanted to purchase some guns, going to “Hell” to getting a gun permit from A test through Z test. BS!!! Now Texas house passing a gun bill no need permit to carrying a gun out in public. Wow! What is going on with the united states laws?
ReplyDo away with the bullshit laws just to have prisoners and actually have cops uphold the constitution they would have to do way less work.
ReplyI gotta say all of the dreaths caused by cops that have been on the news, the victims weren’t getting ready to kill them first…. I’m white and I don’t like all of the “white (male) supremacy talk, but I’ve been to jail a few times and have had other interactions with my the police, and I gotta say, they don’t exactly feel like the good guys….they kind of feel like that grumpy old teacher you had in school that didn’t seem to like any of the students…..with guns
ReplySo if it’s come to a point in the system when “even if your a good cop, your gonna screw peoples lives up.” then maybe the system is ready for a phoenix fix. That’s why people are just burning shit down now……. I’m curious as to what the actual turning point will be……
ReplyPlease ask the Law makers in the US to stop making stupid laws everyday , this is where the fault lies !!!
ReplyNo we didn’t ask them to take on all those different responsibilities. They got tired of seeing money flow towards those responsibilities and said no. Our money. We’ll do it. They wanted all the funding. Well they got it. And now they’re mad they have to do the jobs they took the funding from.
ReplyJocko Willink says cops should train for 1 entire shift per week. He is a Navy SEAL and compared it to how much the SEAL’s train. Don’t defund them Superfund them.
Reply1:23: “A lot of people walking around with lethal who don’t really know what they’re doing…” and then there are the police
ReplyIt’s so annoying when bill isn’t paying attention. Listen and stop thinking about your next sound bite. Pat robertson…ugh
Reply3 or more simultaneous tasks of heavy responsibility placed on a 25 year-old from day 1 for a pretty pathetic starting wage. A recipe for disaster if there ever was one.
ReplyWhoever came up with, and still supports, this broken system, should be canned immediately.
Joe, you got another spare trillion lying around to fix this mess?
Didn’t think so…
Try living in an inner city neighborhood here in Chicago with no police. You Hollywood people are brain dead. Must be all that money you earned by being pretty.
ReplyThe issue isnt just that they might not know how to deal with firearms but how to approach the Situations they get it.
ReplyThe sad thing is that at least 20 other democracies solved this problem decades ago. Some were genocidal dictatorships as recently as 30 years ago…Oh wait, the USA is different…
ReplyYes the criminals are so well trained?
ReplyThis is BS. Many cops go through the same trainings and are asked to be all the same things she said (counselors, doctors, teachers, etc.) but they don’t go around killing people for minor infractions. Until people stop justifying the use of force as bad training or ‘implicit bias’ and start calling it what it is… sadists racists cops… these murders are never going to stop. Most of the times a cop pull a gun and kill somebody it started with an illegal stop, profiling or simply a cop that woke up with murder in his or her mind and that is no mistake, that is premeditated. This problem is about the ulimited and unacountable power that we give cops, something that no other profession has.
ReplyThis is what Sam Harris said, that probably issue in all this is that cops are HORRIBLY untrained, ESPECIALLY on how to handle situations as tense as some of these incidents were.
ReplyNo wonder Gotham City needs Batman.
ReplyYears ago, I worked as an installer for Comcast. Our training was almost 3 months. We were drug tested, we had to complete a number of milestone testing assignments, we had written tests AND we had to ride along with current techs for over a month.
ReplyHmmmm. And why is it our police officers are expected to be all tose things….social workers, mediators, psychologists? Maybe because we in the US have cut funding for mental institutions, and closed thousands of mental health facilities nationwide? Could that be a reason? Instead of a police officer trying to work out a domestic dispute, they bring in an ombudsman or psychologist that is trained in family councelling, and go back to their job. Stopping the violence in the moment is their job…solving the social issue isn’t. And the funding i have seen for police forces seems to be focused on new physical tools. Maybe we need to invest in the human capital more. Training. Hiring support staff like councellors not just for the public they deal with, but for the officers as well. Just a crazy thought.
ReplyThis is about racism, not lack of training.
ReplyOh, that explains it then.
ReplyCops are the most dangerous gang in the world.
ReplyOne bad apple spoils the whole bunch.
ReplyI bet nationwide all the money paid out to settle police misconduct lawsuits could easily pay for the extra support staff.
ReplyBring on Heather Mac Donald for a reality check
Replywe have no standardized hiring practices for the people we arm and entrust as law enforcement… perhaps that is the root cause to policing problems, too many legacy hires and friends of the sheriff situations.
ReplyComplete Overhaul REQUIRED
ReplyLet’s pass some “common sense” legislation to make their jobs easier and lower gun violence: End the drug war.
ReplyI love how it’s white people always explaining to the communities that these officers are supposed to protect and serve that defunding or abolition is unacceptable. The police are given power only by consent of the governed. Clearly none of them have read the constitution for it is a constitutional right to abolish in part or all .” That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” U. S constitution
Replyit’s staggering as a Canadian to see how unprofessional and dumb you can be and still be a police officer. scary shit. Here you don’t even get to go to police college without a university degree and extensive psychological examinations, also training is much more professional. Probably why cops here make about $90-$120k/year
ReplyThe most detrimental thing I have seen with law enforcement is the fact that they often, exclusively, socialize with other cops. Their view of the world becomes tainted by their limited experience. Everyone else becomes “other”.
ReplyI’ts Bill Maher conservative in disguise running the lets never blame the right tv show. Most cops are aggressive biggots.. fuck yall talking about
ReplyBlacks in the United States are making life very difficult for cops. Cops get called in on complaints of kids with guns, and when the cops arrive the kids take off running. It’s dark outside, and the cops are chasing the kids, and the cops can make out the gun that the kid is holding. The kid finally stops, quickly throws the gun behind a fence and spins around and puts his hands up. The cops do not have enough time to process that the gun was quickly thrown behind a fence, and it’s dark out…they cant see. Cops have a right to protect themselves from getting shot. Tell the blacks to stop running away when a cop says to stop. Failure to Comply is killing these blacks, nothing else. It’s their own fault.
ReplyIt blows my mind that German cops train for -years- before being let lose, and hey, not a single cop shooting…
Reply982 people shot by cops out of almost 11,000,000 arrests – .00009% of people are shot in an arrest. Considering the job they have, that’s a very small percent.
ReplyShes using one department as her evidence. Thousands around the country provide quality training to their officers.
ReplyIdk who this woman is but she’s by far the most informed on the panel
ReplyThis is literally a 1000th of the training mental health counselors get, and like a 10,000th of what doctors get, and we don’t even give those people guns
ReplyAmerica go out on the street and overthrow the fascist Biden and his followers!!!
ReplyBill, next time you should consider the greatest author to write cop exploits in both fiction and non fiction who’s many book have been made into screen plays and yes a retired cop at I believe age 40 and one of my favorite writers with a quick wit and a great sense of humor, the one and only Joseph Wambaugh, he will make you laugh your ass off. Please get your people on the job of hunting him down and get him on your show, I believe he resides in Point Loma Ca.
ReplyI’d actually like to hear what a REAL cop says about her assessment …don’t believe it for a fin second lady
ReplyWow – Pat Robertson proves that even a broken clock is right twice a day
ReplyTo become chef takes years of training
ReplyThe most amazing thing about this is that an intelligent 40+ woman was accepted into the academy. Clerical error?
ReplyNo help from Congress for ANY problem. MUST #FixTheFilibuster first.
ReplyHow about a 55% population-based cloture rule?
But the Democrats represent >55% of the voters. Presto chango, no more filibusters.
#BlockTheBlockheads #EndTheFilibuster
Any cop that isn’t a loser does their own weapons training.
ReplyShockin? Yes. Surprising? No.
ReplyShe has a compassion bias favoring cops. The arrogance level of many cops I’ve encountered in routine traffic stops is off the charts.
ReplyWe don’t give the Police the training that is needed to do an effective job, and then wonder why they fall short. It would seem to me that the police need to DEMAND better training!
ReplyThe air freshener excuse is a total lie. He was wanted for unlaw possession of a firearm.
ReplyWhy do people still think police training can be improved upon in any meaningful fashion when we are faced with BLM riots and anti-lockdown protests? Police are being deliberately squeezed within a vice grip because politicians, MSM, and medical frauds like Dr. Fauci keeps adding fuel to the fire. Eventually, all the sane and reasonable officers will simply give up in disbelief.
ReplyI worked in the Hungarian police training system. Most cadets were country kids who wanted the stable income and early retirement the police force offered. Their training was brief and didn’t cover emotional management to any real degree. The cadets were used as political pawns by a wannabe authoritarian government. Not altogether dissimilar.
ReplyGreat interview! The pay scale does not attract the psychological profile needed.
ReplyCritical thinking skills are essential coupled with social and cultutal awareness. Trigger fingers need not apply!
So to who’s YT channel do I subscribe now for the WHOLE thing in better quality?
ReplySpoiler: Cops are all racist. And law enforcement officers in the US are terrorists.
ReplySurprise…all the guests on his show are liberals…except once in a while he’ll have on a conservative so he & his other guests can beat up on them…
ReplyIt’s not so much the lack of training. The problem is the utter lack of accountability.
ReplyWhat a difference in professionalism between European police officers and the mess in America. This cannot be justified in any way, is it? Perhaps they should first training in Europe before becoming a police officer at all👮♀️👮♂️
ReplyCops do a great job when you obey and act afraid but once you piss them off they will murder you and then can go home with a paid vacation.
ReplyStill more training than the thugs parents or in most cases parent is giving!
ReplyBill I need your premium cable content at internet piracy prices to come back to your Youtube channel.
ReplyVery few people whose lives aren’t already screwed up come into up close and personal contact with the cops. Just sayin’.
ReplyRetrain all po pos…give them tasers & rubber bullets only for the first 18 mos on the job.
ReplyWhy are air fresheners illegal?
ReplyYea, I’m sorry, I don’t accept this bullshit excuse that “we ask cops to be [too many] things!” No we, don’t. Cops are told to go out there and arrest anyone who might be doing something wrong or who doesn’t give you the god-given respect you brave heros deserve. They’re not hired for their intelligence or character, they’re not trained well, and their “blue line” is just a chip on their shoulder they’re proud to defend at all costs.
Cops SHOULD BE trained to recognize a social situation that doesn’t need a militaristic response, and they SHOULD BE trained not in how to use their guns, but in how NOT to use them. Then maybe we all wouldn’t have to keep making excuses for one “bad apple” after another who had a gun slapped in their hand, military gear thrown on their backs and were then told to “enforce” the laws because the world is crashing down around you and it’s up to you to save us all..
ReplyThe training of police officers is important and expensive which is why they give extra points for the Entrance exam to xmilitary. And most police districts rely upon that source of training. However the transition from military to civilian policing requires psychological training which has been hard to come by.
ReplyIf the police want to have us believe that change isn’t necessary, why do they insist on acting in a manner that clearly shows that change is necessary?
ReplyThey do need more training. That’s why defunding them is the most idiotic thing Democrats can do.
ReplyBill Maher looks trapped. Bet he’s a really cool dude outside the studio.
Replyyou could be a saint before starting a job as a cop, you would not come out a saint, we cant tell the truth about the reality cops have to face every day
ReplyStop hating the cops! It’s a job just like yours and none go to work looking to kill anyone ever. It’s the media that pushes this! I’m sorry but we shouldn’t glorify criminals and when something bad happens we jump on the ppl that actually protect us. As a ppl we are wrong!
ReplyThe problems we are witnessing today aren’t new; they were built into the American criminal “justice” system or adopted as acceptable policing practices. It’s not just properly trained officers; psychological testing/vetting are required for policing a complex society. In a society bound by the rule of law, accountability isn’t contingent upon ethnicity, social, or income status.
ReplyRacism is the part of it. This has to stop. Stop killing black people.
ReplySeriously. Your excuse is a bunch of Bull. It’s a lack of accountability not training.
Reply“Even if you’re a good cop, you’re going to screw people’s lives up.”
ReplyMost occupations have very little training. I recall being rushed through a Pediatric Advanced Lifesaving course (mostly Powerpoint), and then the instructer literally gave us answers to the exam because time was up and she needed to leave. Voila, we were now certified (I was a practicing RN at the time). I’ve had various careers in my long life, and I notice more and more that managers at any company have no idea what exactly their employees do every day, and as an employee you are making it up as you go along. We are drowning in incompetence.
ReplyMan I was hoping she was going to say defund the police, that is one of the key things that police have problem with they expect them to do everything. If you defund(or redistribute) those funds to people qualified to do those jobs, you can support cops by minimizing there jobs they have to do.
ReplyThese clips are too short. Great subject matter. These clips are too damn short and almost not worth watching
ReplyHuman rights are woke now. Nice country you’ve built, elites.
ReplyFilthy.
ReplyCops in Europe are much better trained than American police. The fact that Klan mom, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Boebert are walking around with sidearms, scares the shit out of me. They have probably had less firearm training than the police.
ReplyI remember watching the show, Cops. While driving around the city, with the cameras rolling, when a call would come in, they would flash a caption, in the bottom of the screen, referring to whatever crime was in progress. One time, the cops were just driving, then they notice a black man, just walking on the side walk. The caption pops up as, Suspicious activity. I said to my buddy. WTF! The guy was doing nothing wrong. That is the problem with police in America. They see a black man, and automatically assume, he’s up to no good. Change has been needed for a very long time.
ReplyPolice officers are FORCED to enforce archaic drug laws. Ending the failed war on drugs will free up precious time for police to go after real crime and save countless lives of people of colour.
ReplyThis new infection is sinister… Of course someone with a BADGE with AUTHORITY will be the ones doing multiple jobs when dealing with conflicts in society or emergencies. that is the job of police. You wouldn’t divide that important job into 5 different jobs. Is the social worker going to have to call the cops? Is the cop going to have to call the psychiatrist out into the field? Don’t be absurd. “dispatch, I need a teacher, a psychiatrist, and a sociologist in the this field pronto, otherwise I might get too aggressive!!!”
ReplyDon’t public screw there own lives for robbing or murder
ReplyIt’s the individuals not the system of cops. Never been. You choose how to raise ur kids. Same shit
ReplyWhat about all the private programs the states / police stations pay for so their staff goes trough a every citizen wants to kill you, be as aggressive as you can and forget about the fact that the police (you) should help and protect? There are so many reports and documentarys showing that…
Without the private trainings and more proper state training, police in us would behave like 80-90% in other developed countries…
ReplyPs: because mostly (not in all cases) it’s not the people, it’s the training and the steady climate of fear of the people they should help/support
ReplyI would have empathy for police who, I agree, are wrongly expected to play social worker, counselor, mental health worker, server and provider but they eat up all the money in local budgets which might otherwise go to those services. Who are we supposed to expect to do those needed services?
ReplyHe wasn’t being stopped for an air freshener. He was stopped for having out of date vehicle tags. On discovering he was a bail jumper and had an outstanding warrant, then they went to arrest him. Unfortunately for the female cop, she shot a criminal who resisted arrest while being black. If she had shot a veteran without any criminal record for trespass while being white. She would have been just fine.
ReplyCops need to be told aggressive and unnecessary use of force they will get money taken out from their retirement funds.
ReplyDylan Roof with ISSUES commits genocide, gets FED by cops on the way to the precinct, a black man arrested for a fake $20 you put your knee on his neck until he dies. Cops have to admit there are bad apples that need to be punished.
And here we are thinking these guys getting firearms training. Turns out they are as fat and lazy as they look.
Replybill such a great human being. go to your power shed & stay there
Replybilly perfect what man
ReplyThis has always been going on; but, now that everyone in the street is carrying a video camera we are finally seeing things we have never seen before in police behavior. And change will come of this.
ReplyWhen I was 18 , I was driving my first brand new car , a cop stopped me while I stopped on the road looking at the map , he asked for my ID and searched my body all over me , I didn’t do anything wrong . I’m an asian America. I was sexual harassed by this cop but I kept silent all my life now that I’m in my early 50’s I’m a doctor , I have my own medical facilities , I have seen so much Asian harried going on , I no longer want to keep silent about what I experienced. In addition , while I was in the college, I was with my classmates sitting in the car driving back home , we stopped at gas station , a female cop came up to me to ask my ID , I refused to give her and asked her why did she ask for my ID , how would I know if she was a real cap because I didn’t do anything wrong , we were only there to get some gas and some food . She slapped my face hard and told me how dare I questioned her and spoke to her that way . Now I have my own facilities and I have 50 staff working under my facilities , I have been working hard and contributing my whole life , paying tax , cooperate tax as well as tax for all my full time staff , . We even had to be forced to give donation to policemen when they knock my door and they also do that to my neighbors . I can only say policemen’s salary are paid by our tax but they don’t appreciate us and take everything for granted as they are just bunch gangsters but with license . They don’t do much for us , no justice for all color . They never did for Asian American and they try to pretend they forgot Asian American history how first Asian / Chinese Americans came to United state in 1820 which is 150 years ago , how they helped to build this country in the first hit they were “ Tortured “ by many other colors and got killed by police and how they have not been supporting Asian American except taking our money and tax . We no longer will keep silent . We are too kind to them and if we continue letting them using God and bible to take advantage of us with God’s words to ask us to forgive them each time after they ignored their duties , violations from their wrong behaviors towards innocent citizens , it’s actually our fault to allow them to take advantage of us and reinforce their negative behavior towards to us to be continued . I’m just too kind and have been contributing my life to help our community and hire all kind people including white , Latino , black and only a very few Asian Americans, I recall I used to say this while I was a child “ I Pledge of Allegiance of United States of America… ..for which it stands one nation under God .. invisible, liberty and just for all “. It sounds to me so ironic now after I got older grin what I have experienced after all . Justice for all ?? Never did , never is and never will unless we speak out and stand up and fight for our justice unless we all copy and do exactly how African Americans did to get attention from everyone and media & social media to report huts , days to get public trials , and Thousands of hundreds of protesters fighting and protesting waking on the street to fight for black live matters is what Asian Americans and Latino need to do . That’s how we can make some of them to pay attention to what they did to us by Sexual harassing us, attacking , killing by others . Don’t ever let those who use God and bible to continue taking advantage of us . God will never ask us to forgive them unless they admit they were wrong and sinners in front of God and rest of us to ask forgiveness but no one ever did for what they did to us since 150 years ago until what we have been experienced recently . Justice for All ? How ironic for the rest of world up see the way how our government had been treating us . Freedom / liberty/ justice for all ???? Those are only for selected people .
ReplyPolice officers should payed a lot more and better vetted with an eclectic education including Medicine, Psychology and other fields as well as Criminal Justice with a Master’s Degree with an appropriate title. The tuition and associated costs should be free with a commitment to public service. Oh, as far as the personnel required, if you will build it, they will come.
Reply🤔…Wow…2 weeks. The Law Enforcement Academy I went to in FLORIDA. We had 6 weeks of FIREARMS training. So maybe where she went it was 2 wks. Not mine.
Reply“Qualifying” twice a year isn’t as easy as most people think. It’s actually fairly rigorous. And if you fail to qualify, it has fairly serious consequences…like your lively hood for instance. That said, I have certainly seen officers that are great with their weapon but, much more importantly, stupid in dealing with people. Often, You won’t need that gun if you can calm down the situation verbally. I have seen incredible examples of the de-escalation of a potentially serious incident by some very capable officers. No one hears about those incidents in the paper or on the news…because it was resolved peacefully.
ReplyA cop, these days, as Bills guest alluded to, needs to be a Counselor/psychotherapist as well as sufficiently trained in weapons. IF being a cop was so easy, why do there always seem to be shortages on city departments? There are always 2 sides to an argument…don’t be so quick to judge.
She’s got spunk. ” I hate spunk! “
ReplyAmericans should try abolishing the whole police force and you will collapse faster than Libya. Police need to have Green beret like navy seal like training of discipline.. given not all navy seal have the same capacity but, they are not the best of the best in the world for nothing, That even armies around the world trained with them.
ReplyOnly a rich white man would say that fucking cynicism is the cops biggest problem, bill maher is so out of touch insane
ReplyI’m sorry 3 white ppl talking about policing rolling my eyes at you bill
ReplyAlright I’m getting a sub to HBO for this episode
ReplyI would like to point out that the two weeks she is referring to is weapons handling and marksmanship, NOT use of force training, which is the hotly debated issue today. Departments typically spend months training on use of force through a combination of legal studies and scenario testing.
I like Bill Maher, but this kind of false equivalency and misinformation is exactly what he was referring to in his video “Strife of the Party.” This former officer should know better than to suggest more marksmanship training to resolve controversial use of force…
ReplyWhat time period was she a cop? How long did she serve? Is she still a cop? Where was she a cop? Did she ever do one officer solo in a patrol car graveyard shift work? What is a reserve officer?
Replybullshit. we PAY cops to uphold LAWS not KILL PEOPLE
ReplyTell me something I didn’t already know. Sad Reality In America. Mass shooters are more angled. 😂
ReplyThe US needs a Robocop
ReplyI’m not a gun enthusiast but I know a strawman argument when I see one. HOW do we know if the training she outlined is insufficient. Sure it seems insufficient to us liberal types but perhaps this is really all you need. Guns are pretty simple devices. It’s pointing them at people is where things get … well evidently we need way way more training there. Perhaps this is what Rosa is referring to?
ReplyBad training, militaristic recruiting, lack of supervision, too many jobs they aren’t trained for (e.g. mental health situations)–not much point in blaming individuals. The system is 19th century and grossly underfunded. Pay more, hire more educated people, train them better. Oops, no one wants to PAY for it, like better teachers, Quelle surprise.
ReplyAnd they are trained to think of anyone that they meet in the process of their day is to be seen as an enemy, a threat to their life. Cops not draw sooner, shoot sooner, taze sooner, beat sooner, brutalize sooner. They are trained by the police unions to ‘everyone’ as a threat. Their lives are more important than the public’s.
The Chauvin defense keeps saying ‘a *reasonable* officer’. You can not call an officer that is trained to think that everyone they encounter is a threat to their lives a ‘reasonable officer’, or even a reasonable human being. You call them what they are: A loaded weapon, waiting for go off. Police union trained officers are the largest threat to human life when a police officer is involved. Such a jaundiced view of the public they are meant to serve is poisonous.
ReplyOften they are tired. And often they are just scared. They don’t want to die either. So if you get in a tussle and the cop tells you to do something… you do it. That’s it.
Now if you’re stoned out of your mind and have a shit attitude then I don’t know what to tell you. Honestly I dont have a lot of sympathy for people like that.
ReplyThe clips are too short!
ReplyThe Movie Police Academy was BS? In the movie, they spend months in training….
ReplyCan we agree that its not the fact that police in the US dont know how to use their firearms? Its not like they are hitting and killing innocent bystanders watching from roofs or shooting themselves in the arm because they dont know how to handle and aim the firearm. Based on the number of people who die in police shootings, they dont have issue USING their firearms, so I think the length of firearm training is a red herring. The issue isnt in the actual USE of their firearms, its WHEN they should use their firearms. They should be getting more classroom training on de-escalation tactics, phycology etc.
ReplyAmerican are not low obiding ppl if u would be inRasia u would be shot on the spot
ReplyListen to the low don t run away from it
ReplyI wish u Month without cops and u will see where u stand
ReplyIf they took away the guns they would have less stress
Replytrue that!
ReplyI got my first job in IT and we underwent a six week training course, followed by a year of shadowing a senior analyst, and almost every month we had to take work practicums to keep our knowledge fresh. And that was after 4 years earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science. 2 weeks of gun training to be a cop seems inadequate.
ReplySo, Cops have too many responsibilities and not enough training or resources – BUT let’s ‘Defund’ them anyway?!
ReplyOh my God, I didn’t realize even without official training I have more firearm knowledge and expertise than a lot of cops; according to this lady.
Wow.
ReplyI’m betting the majority of the people in America that own guns have had none or very little weapons training. It’s more like “Yee haa, here’s your gun now get out there and shoot something”
ReplyWhat a telling last sentence she left us with.
ReplyAnd that in essence is a major problem with the “system”
Police departments recruite people with poor character, the department never has to face accountability and they administer such piss-poor training, …it’s no wonder police departments across the nation are such shit shows.
ReplyFunny how that two weeks of training still manages to keep them from shooting unarmed white women or armed white children with raw abandon…🤨… I wonder why
ReplyThere are a lotta people out there with lethal weapons, who have no Fucking clue.
ReplyBill Mar your white supremacy just will not go away. You should become a host on Fox lying news
ReplyMaher wouldn’t stop “man-terrupting” Rosa Brooks. Embarrassingly disrespectful. She handled it as one who has grown used to disrespect. Gay men should be more respectful to women.
ReplyTwo weeks firearms training… Well that’s entirely too much training. Let’s defund the police and pay for 20 minutes of training.
ReplyDamn is so easy to be a cop in the USA and then add the fact the majority are racists. No wonder they kill too many minorities 😬
ReplyClearly we need to support more cops
ReplyFirst of all, which department was she in? Mayberry, or NYC? Big difference. 80 hours of good gun training just doesn’t equate to her narrative that a bunch of armed cops don’t know how to use their weapons. So how does defunding police rectify this alleged problem? Gun training on the range has nothing to do with the issues that are highlighted by our media and politicians. It’s all about split-second decision making — how to proceed when someone resists arrest, the media never talks about how these deaths are almost always are the result of a lifelong criminal resisting arrest.
ReplyYep, more training needed, but racist at the heart of the PD? Nah. Such a simple problem with a simple solution.
ReplyHold up. “Even if you’re a good cop you’re working in a system that’s going to screw people’s lives up” So….Since being a cop is voluntary, wouldn’t that make you a bad cop by default? Unless we’re saying there’s a such thing as a good nazi? 🤔🤔🤔
ReplyI started my career in 1986 and retired in 2014. In my retirement I teach behavioral analysis to Police Officers. The truth is our training is unforgivably inadequate and yes that is the biggest issue. There is a problem in LE and we are lying about it. Its not racism, or violent tendencies. It is that we have cops who have no clue what they are doing. There is two reasons for that. One is they are idiots and the other is that even those with the aptitude do not get enough training. You would think that cops who have no idea what they are doing would not last long but there is a way for them to thrive and that is by sucking up to the bosses. In other news what’s wrong with the police is what’s wrong at your work, except we have guns. This is why defunding the police will obviously make everything worse because the first thing to go when you cut budgets is training. I believe that since you can’t be a cop until 21 we should create a new college degree called Police Sciences that teaches you everything you need to know to be a cop. From extensive legal training to repeated use of force training. With cultural diversity through immersive programs. Have the students spend time with the myriad of communities in this country. Its too long of a subject to go into in these comments but you have to understand that the perception of threat is in our brain stem, while the part of the brain that realizes the threat is gone is in our conscious mind. the Subconscious mind is 100;s of millions of time faster and smarter. So training the brain to not act instinctively takes a lot of time. It has to be done but we have to understand it takes extensive reprogramming of the brain. This training will go on for 3 years, then you do an academy, followed by FTO and probations. Upon passing probation you have a Bachelors of Science in Police Science with continuing training from there.
ReplyThe next thing is we have to get rid of the one cop car. Cops should work with a partner of their choosing. That way they can act as a team rather then individuals. Ever wonder why all 5 cops shoot one guy with a knife? Because they are each having a direct encounter with the knife wielder and aren’t trained to rely of each other. Putting a cop out by themselves is setting them and possible suspects up for failure. It makes the suspect more likely to fight and the cops more likely to need deadly force.
ReplyFinally cops should work an assigned beat and they should be oriented to that beat before they ever work in it. That orientation should be riding with a senior person in that beat and being driven around to meet the various community leaders.
But none of that occurs in a defunded police world. Instead it just gets worse and life for everyday Americans will become a crime infested hell hole which I think is the plan.
ReplyDouble their pay … triple their training … mandatory bodycams … harsher penalties for crimes than non-cops (due to breach of public trust) … make them get out of the car and walk the beat more … and lets have all police recruits possess two of the below three things: Parenthood (empathy), a college degree (work ethic), or at least be age 26 (full frontal lobe maturity). Serve and protect the taxpayer (i.e, the employer).
ReplySo we need to FUND the police huh?
ReplyHOW to use a firearm isn’t hard to train. Two weeks to learn that isn’t above the bar. WHEN to use a firearm though is a different thing entirely. Getting the two confused is a dangerous mistake that I think is far too common.
ReplyAnyone who hasn’t seen the hulu documentary “Crime and Punishment” yet should really watch it.
ReplyHere in Finland, it takes about 3 years to become a police officer. With 1 year of training at the police station. The study is at university of applied sciences and it will give you an BBA.
ReplyPat Robertson???? Oh for fks sake, Bill.
ReplySo people are flipping out over superstitions that cops are shooting waaaay too many people – and then the answer is they want the cops to get better at shooting their guns? How fking idiotic are the cop haters? A US citizen has a better chance of being struck by lightning than getting killed by a cop, no matter what their skin color. Learn to math and grow up, people.
Reply“cops with lethal weapons don;t know what they are doing” the Kill to Death RATIO of cops vs criminals proves that is a lie. Obviously the cops know what they are doing, or they wouldn’t be racking up kills at the rate they are…..they obviously can use the pistol better than the opposite end of the spectrum and I am okay with that…
ReplyPat Robertson maybe close to death so he is trying to do at least one good act out of a totally evil existence.
ReplyShe’s a man
Reply“He’s the president of your Asia group.”
ReplyHow presumptuous of him.
WHAT THE EFF IS SHE EVEN TALKING ABOUT???? WHAT AN ABSOLUTE DAMN DISASTER OF A WOMAN. FULL STOP.
ReplyWe really should support blue lives more. Reducing cops budget isn’t gonna solve anything nor make our lives any safer.
ReplyIt also sounds like the legislatures that make laws and the administration (mayor, city manager) get a pass on these incidents and the police get all the blame.
ReplyBeing a cop is a choice, and they choose wrong every day
Replymany years ago, I think in Dec 1994, my psych-nurse husband brought home a trade magazine with an article about a new psych test to select police recruits. According the the actual psych professionals that studied the test, it was selecting FOR some measures of psychopathy.
ReplyYou want better trained Cops. Then pay for it and get it done.
ReplyIf you’re not willing to pay more taxes to get cops more training then shut your mouth.
ReplyEven if You are a Good Cop, You are going to Screw People’s Life Up!
ReplyThe bottom line is a LOT of stuff does not work well in America. We have gotten too big and too complex. Getting involved in wars from World War I through Iraq has been the biggest mistake this country has made. It has taken so much attention and treasure away from the continental problems we have.
ReplyLiberal’s are too stupid to look up stats and facts and run their mouth based on emotions
ReplyScrewed up people are what the cops have to deal with all the time. Failed families with little or no civilized values taught to them have created enormous adult failures. Bad upbringing begets bad citizenry, etc.
ReplyI think police need mandatory training on all aspects of their jobs ALL!
ReplyThey might not be able to hit the broad side of a barn but they sure can’t choke you to death.
ReplyShe’s 100% correct. The training and continued training for law enforcement in America is appalling.
ReplyWhile we train cops to use their fire arms properly maybe we could also train a certain segment of the population to obey the cops orders
ReplyThis lady is partially corrected regarding the amount police training especially weapon training. Police officers should be trained like the navy seals training or special forces training level.
ReplyKeep up the great work Bill
ReplyIt takes 13 to 19 weeks on average to become a police officer… If some places are requiring 2 weeks it’s because of the mass retiring or quitting.
ReplyAnd in this absence of training we are going to defund them, doesn’t make alit of sense
ReplyThis is baloney. Shooting a gun is not rocket science. The amount of training and retraining she cites is perfectly adequate and normal. Leftist BS here, and not for the first time.
ReplyRosa Parks is correct. We ask police officers to do too much.
ReplyA DIRTY little secret.
ReplyThe merchant from Venice Shy lock is running these operations
and these false narratives!- William Shakespeare
Wow excellent Interview
ReplyAs a lost middle person who is reading comments on a Bill Maher video I am confused, don’t most of ya’ll want to defund the police? These comments don’t make sense 🤔
ReplyPat Robertson is still Pat Robertson he doesn’t want to be on the wrong side of history. PERIODT….
ReplyCops put their life on the line every day for a paycheck. It has to be the toughest, most stressful, draining job out there. They deserve more respect than the BS they get from the Left.
ReplyStop cutting their budgets maybe they would get better training.
ReplyI challenge all who are on here. Watch Paul Harvey the police man you might just find a different attitude towards the police
ReplyThe ‘dirty, little secret’ about cops is that almost anybody who *wants* to be a cop shouldn’t be.
ReplyNonsense!
ReplySo society has asked Police to do everything. So society is the blame not the Police.
ReplySo it means the social workers are to blame for not doing their job properly, the teachers are to blame for not doing their jobs properly and parents are to blame for not doing their job properly etc.
It comes down to what type of society you want and America has been very comfortable with letting Police be all of the above because it’s easier for someone else do do the dirty work and when things go wrong it’s only ONE group to blame.
all you other people talking about how great your cops are. they wouldn’t look so great in America i guarantee it. American cops have the most challenging situations and for the most part do a great job considering the circumstances.
ReplyWhen people say that Police isn’t the most dangerous job, I wonder how that is determined. I am sure some police work is more dangerous than other, and presumably the work would be more dangerous if they’d shoot a lot less people. I am a bit disappointed in that sound bite as it is quite logically fallacious, on the same level as striking down voter protection laws because evidence shows that voting rights is no longer under attack (due to the existence of the very thing that is about to be stuck down).
Replyregarding laws that needs to be enforced, what about illegal ownership of a weapon? Wasn’t that what the police got the guy that should have been tazed on? That cop/journo makes it sound like the guy got shot for having an air freshener…
ReplyI get halfway down the comment thread. Finally, my mind get’s a message through and it is…”Why on earth are you reading this entire comment thread?” I nod my head in understanding because I’m literally getting dumber the further I read.
ReplyEvery white male leo in America should resign before they are sent to prison. Leave the policing to diversity hires and affirmative action hires.
ReplySo if you defund the police, then they will get even less training.
ReplyCops shouldn’t make as much as the military personnel that are engaged in combat. They have less training and have much more power to abuse
ReplyWhere was she a cop? I had to complete8 weeks of training on my own dime before I could qulifi for a job as a seasonal summer LE Ranger with limited scope and close supervision. Things went well and they sent me to an 11 week ( which has since been expanded to just short of a year), training academy at their expense, every year a 40 hr refresher for LE which did not include the twice a year firearms recert, That was just the basic stuff, there was smmunitons training, wildland firefighting, EMT trainings and repeated physical fitness requirements. But i was only a Park Ranger for the NPS
Replya good man can be trained to be a bad cop.
ReplyMore cops die by suicide than all the other manners of death combined. And, the ones who dont kill themselves are considered the mentally stable ones!?!??! HOLY SCHNIKES!!!
ReplyA bit oversplified. Diff regions have diff requirements. Cops are expected to train shooting on their own time.
ReplyI can’t help myself…..what caliber cork does Bill’s gun shoot?
ReplyConsidering most of these cops are killing with a single shot the problem isn’t that they’re not getting enough firearms training (since they’re clearly decent shots), it’s that they’re not getting enough training in the techniques that would prevent them drawing their weapon.
ReplyCops should go to a 4year grueling academy that weeds out the weak and dangerous. Make it threw the 4 year academy, then you qualify to carry a firearm and maybe they be mentally qualified(that’s a maybe)
ReplyDear Bill get it right or shut your PIE HOLE The cops stopped the car when they noticed it had expired tabs, ran the plates on their computer. Got his name and it stated he had a Warrant for his arrest. He then tried to get away by driving off.(agree she shouldn’t have shot him) but if he would have obey cops he would be alive today. IN MINNESOTA WE DON’T GET PULLED OVER FOR TREE FRESHENERS but for warrants
ReplyDon’t they get a little more training than two weeks? Each jurisdiction is going to be different, but don’t most people on the force go to college for law enforcement degrees? I could be wrong but I don’t think most of these people are high school grads, get two weeks of training, and then are set loose
ReplyOkay. Gun owner. I might start watching your show again.
ReplyHere’s a good reform idea. Don’t have 140 females trying to manhandle grown males suspects; most of them cranked up. Female cops are great in support roles; not as the leads
ReplyThank you for the kind words that you said about President Biden. He is working very hard for us.
ReplyI became a cop at 23, and I was not even the youngest at that time. And at that age I realize how unprepared, untrained and immature the cops I was working with were. They were a bunch of high school graduates with guns. It was an eye opener.
ReplyThe real “dirty little secret” about cops is that police departments are run by city councils. City councils hire and fire police chiefs, city government cuts the officer’s paychecks, the city council sets policies and procedures for the department.
If a city council has been promising police reform since the riots of 1968, and nothing has changed, the problem isn’t the police. Voters need to fire the city council, and elect someone with different ideas.
Maybe voters should even consider voting for a different party than the one that’s been promising Hope and Change for a half-century, delivering only hope, and short-changing them.
Replyevery third world country has at least three years of school for a police officer. how come the richest country on earth cannot afford to teach and train them more than two weeks for using a gun????
ReplyI appreciate this. It’s a larger discussion clearly, but I like the reminder. I would not like to be a police officer, I just don’t have that in me.
ReplyRacism is part of it… Where is your evidence?
Two weeks with firearms… Test, PASSED (are the standards to pass LOW? Are they HIGH standards?)
This would be better as a debate.
ReplyAlso dealing with the worst humanity has to offer on a daily basis. I’m sure its hard not to get a little jaded.
ReplyThere are no good cops. Stop with the bullshit
ReplyIts easy to sit on a chair and bitch about cops. They put their lives on a line, and this lady just “became a cop” to use it as a punchline…
Replyits kompletely pointless to watch this junk the left wants to dismantle the entire republic step by step to make it a corrupt third world country, everything they are talking is pushing into that directing no point listening to such idiots like bill maher
ReplyIf blue has been established both by science and the military to be the best color of uniform for a peacekeeping unit that wants to also be able to blend into the natural shadows in the evenings and night then why are the uniforms all black now?
ReplyWhy is the thin blue line not about blue uniforms anymore?
Why are they all wearing black hats and backed by riot gear.
For years now.
I remember when they stopped wearing blue.
Is it fashion?
Police departments supposed to care about their men looking cool?
Or is it intimidation?
Which is anathema to protect and serve.
If your motto is that you are the red cross and are here to help why do you fly the jolly roger as your flag and color?
Are you death, mate?
And the safty is the trigger.
ReplyBill maher of late has been sneaky trying to justify police shootings. I could be training a day and won’t do the crap the cops do. This is not about training, it’s about morality.
ReplyIf u r going to screw people’s life up, then don’t be a cop, or if u r a good cop, then snitch of the bad ones. They won’t because they r not good.
ReplyThere are 300+ million people in this country with over half a million full time cops having over a million interactions with citizens a day. Geez this “dark secret” must mean there are at least hundreds of people getting capped by incompetent cops every week and yet….beautiful stats, you never lie.
ReplySo is this woman saying the criminals know more about using their weapons than the cops?
ReplyAsk this woman what kills more black men Cops or anything else? There are people in this country that wake up saying how can I screw people’s lives up and 99% of them are liberal politicians
ReplyEven if you’re a good cop, you’ll screw people’s lives up? In what world is that true 😂 and maybe people should stop doing dumb shit in front of cops, so the cops won’t shoot them. There has never been a shooting of a person who was compliant. NEVER 😅 Stop doing drugs, gangbanging, robbing, fighting and whatnot, and surprisingly enough you won’t die
Replypolice officers aren’t your average punk ass woke skateboarder smashing window punks. If you don’t like the police don’t call them when you need them and then cried because they didn’t show up in time
ReplyIt doesn’t sound like cops need more range time. They seem to hit their targets more often than not. A lot go shooting on their own.
Also, a lot of people screw up their own lives. The police end up being the force that holds them accountable for it.
ReplyAmerica is demonizing the men and women with the toughest job, police is not paid remotely enough for the shit they have to deal with day in day out. The public doesn’t respect them, society persecutes them. You already see, cities like Portland and Seattle (and I’m sure more and more by the minute) where police officers quit in waves, and there’s no way to recruit them, no shit, I would also NEVER want to become a police officer in America nowadays, particularly these type of cities. They are burning, and will burn much more, its going to be ” the purge’ in real life 24/7. America is idolizing criminals… this is a route to the end
ReplyBeen saying this for a long time. Our standards are too low.
ReplyCops can’t shoot. It’s not really a big part of their jobs. Mostly they just drive around and observe things. If you join the police because they have guns you’re going to be disappointed. OTOH, if you join because you like to drive a car all day, you’re going to love it.
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