John Oliver explains how raids became a favorite tool of police, how few guardrails there are on their use, and what we should do about that.
John Oliver explains how raids became a favorite tool of police, how few guardrails there are on their use, and what we should do about that.
5:50 this should be an irrelevant detail, UNLESS these neighberhoods did not have higher crime statistics and succesfull raids. showing this first before showing the others pushes viewers in a specific corner.
ReplyOh no you guys
They smelled a weed
Better get the firing squad ready, someone’s going down
Stupid f*cks
I shouldn’t have to edit a curse word on Youtube, that is insane
This is not content for children.
You are not making youtube safer by removing accounts with no warning, youtube.
I had been wondering why I was seeing a constant influx of new accounts just saying the craziest stuff
Seriously, screw you youtube
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ReplyIs this not unconstitutional?
ReplySomeone answer me this, how is this possibly legal??
Thanksgiving 2014, there was a siege for 8 hours in my apartment complex a block away. It ended with two flash bangs. Three car alarms went off, and my house shook.
ReplyAnother checkmark on the list why the fuck I never want to live in America.
ReplyBiden will do nothing to stop this.
ReplyWait 20 sec.
ReplyAny longer than that would not allow cops to get the drugs that they and their owned drugs use at their parties.
I knew a dealer who provided up to 10,000 dollars of crack every month for a judge’s parety whihc included DA, cops and lawyers.
Thank you, John
ReplySimple solution. Rewrite and issue a standard national police contract for every law enforcement officer, from patrol officer to head of the FBI, and make them liable for their own actions, their associations, mental condition etc. For example… if charged with a crime jury trial is waved and the case is tried by a judge; Prejudiced stupid jury problem gone. Misconduct you go before an independent civilian panel (no PD reps allowed). Disband police unions, like Reagan did the Air Traffic Controllers. Require psychological and physical fitness tests and job performance review upon demand.
ReplyIf they don’t want to sign the contract, they don’t get the job. Simple. If you’re a KKK Wizard, prescription drug addict or wife-beater…you don’t get the job….
Honestly, if they had killed that kid who got flashbanged, I wouldn’t be surprised if they thought ‘woo! A body count!’ because these people are fucking insane.
ReplyIm so happy not living in the “greatest Country of the world “
ReplyBased on this episode. It sounds like it’s easy to claim someone’s home is in possessions of drugs or guns. It’s either suck f’s who want to watch other’s inconvenience or fake Samaritans who’re suspicious of the abstract concept of non-whites. Imagine that senator’s address was falsely ticked off for these raids, would he change his mind?
ReplyAny word about kids in cages and separation done by Biden? Or is it different because he’s a Democrat ?
ReplyIf the americans are not invading some low country to steal natural resources they invade each other. Just like savages.
ReplyThe broken clock is right twice a day. Good show John
ReplyHow the fuck is it that tv and movie cops follow more due diligence when it comes to verification than our actual police forces.
ReplyI’m actually surprised Americans haven’t turned their homes into miniature fortresses by this point.
ReplyThe cops who raid the wrong home should be IMMEDIATELY placed on a strict probationary period, because it shows that they are not well suited for police work. Any further shitty, lazy, reckless, dangerous, or incompetent, police work, with too little verification of the target location. This doesn’t sound like what the founding fathers had in mind for America.
ReplyBid
Replyumm dont the raids just go where most of the drug dealers are?? relax just a question
Replywhen you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Replythe you don’t have to yell made me so mad for her. You are in her home! more of the same mess truly sad.
Replyto be honest, they use those military gear quite well.
considering the US invades the wrongs nations for the wrong reasons since Vietnam…the Police are spot on
ReplytHeReS nO nEeD tO sHoUt
The fragility dude the fucking fragility of these supposed warriors. I think many police officers are cowards deep down.
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ReplyBaffling how many Americans tune in to hear a British man making fun of politics in USA. Just a friendly reminder that you believe in a King and a Queen..so what about dragons and fairies do you believe in them to?
ReplyLol I’m glad we don’t have lead in our gasoline now 😂but we’re still dealing with all the older Americans who lived through leaded gasoline.
ReplyYou have to replace literally EVERYTHING!!! Bc the chemicals in/from flash bangs are extremely toxic…even the chemicals they use to look for evidence (finger prints, luminal, etc)…
ReplyAnd they don’t compensate you for damages, even if they had the wrong house!! 🤮😡😤🤬
holy fucking shit.
ReplySeriously well done segment. Mountains of respect
ReplyThanks. As usual you are on the money.
ReplyI know Dan O’Brian is the only reason Oliver is talking about Cop Rock.
ReplyThe thing is police suck good at giving fines good morels good neighbors do more to keep people safe honest people with guns help
ReplyI thought our police was not rly smart in France…turns out they are complete geniuses compared to the american one
ReplyJohn Oliver consistently tells the truth and gives good advice. The problem is it falls on deaf ears of the people who can change it. I don’t live in America and frankly footage like this showing how the police treat people makes me not want to live in America simply for my sheer fear of the law
ReplyYou know he cares when he’s dropping f bombs left, right and centre
ReplyWhenever I was little, the police swatted my grandma’s house looking for my petty criminal uncle in his early 20s… and I had a douchebag swat point a loaded rifle at me in a high chair. Grandpa (a now very angry man) decided to take matters into his own hands and tell them to GTFO and thankfully, they did. My uncle was in California… We were in PA.
Edit: big fan of Baby Merchant
ReplyI’m only shocked by the fact that there’s a song about racial police brutality. Not the fact that it exists.
ReplyTo add to the list of suggestions … make the police liable for damages caused by their raids when they raid the wrong place. That should quickly make officers double and triple check their information before executing the raid.
ReplyWhile I completely agree that drug raids are an exaggerated measure, I can’t help but think of the counterargument of “what if they have a gun?”; because in the US, this is a legitimate concern. And if anyone being able to get a gun is such a legitimate concern that it is used to justify raids and police brutality altogether, why don’t people talk more about gun control in this context as well, and not just when another unfortunate school shooting happens? I would love to see John Oliver-like people analyze gun control in the context of BLM and police brutality, to me it’s an essential perspective that’s not enough touched upon.
ReplyWho needs a battering ram to get into a house when Ossifer Hugh Jass has a gut the size of a beer keg?
ReplyMy wife and I were raided at 3:00 a.m. because a neighbor invented a story about our house being invaded by “half-dozen Hispanics” (from the anonymized 911 transcript we obtained) We don’t know why. Nobody was sanctioned and nobody apologized. And while my wife and I were handcuffed in our upstairs bedroom, the half-dozen police went right past our son’s bedroom without opening the door, so he slept through the whole thing. The fictional “half dozen Hispanics” COULD have been right there. Bonus: these cops all came from the precinct that ended up murdering George Floyd.
ReplyUmmm…CopRock looks AMAZING
ReplyHas he ever heard of root-cause-analysis ?
Replyif this happened in eu. I think all they “police” would be in jail for years.
Replythe POLICE do good things at the rate of 1000 to 1
Reply1000 people screwed over to every baby saved
its Beauracracide
it is multi-generational cells embedded within Society
BunkerPeoples Lives Matter, …not Yours.
You know…You never see Bryce Dallas Howard and Jessica Chastain in the same room together…
ReplyA group of masked men break into your house, put a gun in your face, handcuff you, scream “where are the drugs?”, and search your house.
ReplyDid I just describe A. drug addicts doing a home invasion or B. cops executing a search warrant?
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Reply13:00 Wait, so the informant goes to the guys door, comes back, and tells the police he bought cocaine from him but they don’t bother to check? If the informant bought cocaine he should still have it on him. That should be the proof they need. He couldn’t have gotten it anywhere else. Unless they’re THAT incompetent. What was their conversation after they raided the poor guys home? “Hey we couldn’t find any drugs in the apartment. Can we have what he gave you so we could put it in evidence?” “Oh yeah. About that. . . I lied.” “Oh, that’s okay. We’ll still use you for other unnecessary raids. All that matters is we looked cool. You wanna see the footage of us breaking in?”
Reply13:00 Wait, so the informant goes to the guys door, comes back, and tells the police he bought cocaine from him but they don’t bother to check? If the informant bought cocaine he should still have it on him. That should be the proof they need. He couldn’t have gotten it anywhere else. Unless the police are THAT incompetent. What was their conversation after they raided the poor guys home? “Hey we couldn’t find any drugs in the apartment. Can we have what he gave you so we could put it in evidence?” “Oh yeah. About that. . . I lied.” “Oh, that’s okay. We’ll still use you for other unnecessary raids. All that matters is we looked cool. You wanna see the footage of us breaking in?”
ReplyOh my Lord I had forgotten about Cop Rock
ReplyBut no one had a problem with the raid on Roger Stone with CNN just hanging outside his home for no reason.
ReplyWow!
ReplyRemember fuck the atf
ReplyOliver hypocrisy is ASTOUNDING! Democrap policy causes this behavior yet he continues to lick their boots! Biden crime bill pushed this EXACT disaster trying to shut down black communities!
ReplyMrs. Taylor dated the wrong gang banger. Banger shot first and they returned fire 32 times in a firefight which she ran into the middle of or even could’ve tried joining. That’s why cops are innocent 🤣
ReplyYou cant take a clip of police training for another Waco and say that’s bad
ReplyThe problem isn’t Racism it’s that drugs shouldn’t be illegal nobody should break down your door because they smell pot thank god I live in an actually free country
ReplyIf I were a police officer in training, and i was brought into that cult raid training facility. I would have just thrown down my gun, and my gear right there, and been like.
Reply“Fuck this! I joined the police force, not delta force. I quit… goodbye” and left.
> Armed men are allowed to bust into your home unannounced at any time.
> You are allowed to own guns to defend yourself from men busting into your home unannounced at any time.
USA, pick one.
ReplyACAB
ReplyPut it together, they are increasing contractors doing military jobs, further militarizing the police, and further promoting cop like private security. Corporate and military will merge and police and corporate will merge and than the two will merge to be one corporate armed force. Think long and hard about what I just wrote.
ReplySuch a strange world where we vilify the people who catch criminals. I can’t imagine why crime is so rampant?
ReplyI want to drink some whiskey with John Oliver next to a camp fire and just talk shit
ReplyThe fact that we don’t have specific numbers on how many police raids there have been should be a major sign of too much policing…
ReplyWhen everybody can own a gun, just because it’s so east to come by, police will be violent just in case
ReplyThis is why we fear police now. ☹️
Replysoooooo, you dont like the royal family, you want england to be like america? have you seen what happens in the states? to their statues? to their history?
Replywannabe american
ReplyBrazilian police makes the American cops look like real gentleman
ReplyHoly shit! That’s all I have to say!
ReplyI believe the disparities in policing are economic not racial. One thing that dances like John Oliver ignore that the neighborhoods with the most search warrants also have higher rates of poverty. Poverty causes crime. Crime brings police. We need to solve economic inequality.
Reply“Baby Merchant” has periodically popped into my head for _years._
ReplyDoes anybody actually live in Museum Campus or Mag Mile though?
ReplyIf this isn’t tyranny, I don’t know what is.
ReplyOfficers should have to deliver 300 successful doordash orders as part of their training
ReplyPersonally the more I learn about SWAT the more I think it is a terrible idea. No knock isn’t how cops should be playing the game for drugs.
ReplyCop Rock’s stock just went up lol
ReplyBiden has pardoned Saudi Arabia.
ReplyJohn should play piano , I bet he would be good
ReplyJust put a bomb in ur house for insurance so you can make sure to get rid of all of the intruders. Either criminals or police don’t matter
Replycry
ReplyTo us Europeand the American police seem outright racists / fascists
ReplyI always feel he mixes shame and humour what is that?
ReplyI remember back in the day there was a trend on 4chan to raid the house of people streaming games and watching the SWAT team breaking in their house in the middle of the stream.
ReplySome police stations in this country have equipment only the armed forces possess. That ain’t right.
ReplyI am really enjoying this guy’s viewpoints!
ReplyYou need an Austin Powers movie of your own.
ReplyPolice better text me first. I’m not answering the door if someone knocks. It could be the baby merchant for all I know.
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ReplyI never thought i would be proud of fox for anything, but that dude interviewing the maniac, saying they would shoot someone, immediately- I have to be proud that the fox news reporter, actually stuttered in disbelief. Maybe, they have a soul. This is freaking horrifying overall.
ReplyPolice is just the most powerfull Gang.
Reply16:55 How is this even real? O_o
ReplyAmerica — the magic land where the right to defend your property through arms is fought to death over, while if you do it, you get punished and nobody cares.
ReplyI used to manage the range that taught most cops in the PNW. Spoilers: They cant shoot for shit, most are dumb as bricks, and I wouldn’t even give them a handgun, much less anything larger. The typical random person on the street will outshoot them given even a day or two of training. Police have become a gang, but unlike real gangs which are sort of honest in their intentions, the cops can legally lie to you… but if you lie in return, it is illegal. At this point, police dying is at best a shrug moment, and at worst they entirely deserve it.
And remember kids, the supreme court has ruled multiple times that the police have NO duty to actually protect you. Police/Fire/EMT are not first responders. You (or the victim) are the first responder. Your protection is entirely up to you. They are the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th responding tier. Cops are just there to fuck you up, or draw an outline. They belong in the same category as car salesman, insurance companies, lawyers, and congress critters.
ReplyNormally agree with everything but come on bro. What are the police supposed to do?? Raid the areas that arnt selling the drugs to make it racially balanced??
ReplyLmao it’s not a race issue, it’s a criminal issue
Replyso shocking that this racist fascist shit happens in a red state… what I hate just as much as the crimes police commit is that when the city settles the lawsuits its taxpayers who foot the bill!!!!! The police officers should be fired, sued and lose their pensions… and criminally charged!
ReplyThis is bs. Run for office if you want something wussie, I would vote for you John You could still do comedy
ReplyI am born and raised in Louisville and we need help here. The police are murderers. The judges are racist and corrupt. The attorneys are their bitches. Their all involved child sex trafficking too. If anyone reads this and has a suggestion on what my community can do, please let me know! Peace and love
ReplyI thought this was going to be about a Redundant Array of Independent Disks.
ReplyThe sheer audacity of that man to say “You don’t have to shout” to that woman…..
Reply“I smelt weed from that house… we better raid it.”
Reply“Nah, it’s fine. A white, middle class guy lives there.”
Police in the UK are trained to be shocking and intimidating in order to seccure a safe arrest. And by safe, I mean for the person being arrested. For example, the UK police will deliberately smash in your car window in order to shock and dissorientate you, so they can pull you from you’re vehicle and put cuffs on. This is MUCH better than the alternative of beating someone up in order to passify them. The US police are so badly trained, it is not unusual for them to continue beating an arestee up after they have already been subdued or cuffed. They are acting like a bunch of ye haw cowbosy, with all the proffesionallism and restraind that implies. It does not take much proffessionalism to make sure you have the correct house BEFORE you commence a clearly planned raid.
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ReplyWhat do you do? It’s America. You hit their wallets. Fine the police every time they fuck up and make them compensate the people whose property they damaged. That’ll make them stop on a fucking dime. Don’t go after their morality, go after their wallets.
ReplyThey need better training. Watching this makes me understand the “defund the police” movement in America. Infuriating!
ReplyThanks, now I’m on the hunt for Cop Rock, that show looks amazing.
ReplyThere are some damn good singers in the Cop show. Love that rock style.
ReplyBrilliant polemic, thanks John. Great stuff, spot on.
Replythat trafficking dude’s song is a straight lift of the arbiter from chess
ReplyVideo Games don’t cause violence. Search Warrant does.
ReplyI must watch this coprock
Reply17:17…
Well I got fuck all better to do so I’m just gonna throw this flash bang…cous muh reasons…and now I walk in the other direction…
What a fucking moron…
ReplyGo ahead anyone, explain to me why the war on drugs should still be a thing.
Reply‘Yeah Dale’ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
ReplyOh dear God..lol…cop rock..how did it last 11 episodes?
ReplySum up the US in as little words as possible: Idiots with guns.
ReplyThe police service seems to attract 2 types of people. Emotional philanthropists and bullies from the shallower end of the gene pool that take advantage of the complete lack of accountability. If you force entry into someone’s home that, is clearly the wrong house, this should make the warrant null and void leaving the signees of the warrant chargeable for damages. That bring the judge and the requesting officer. I’m sure a Republican sonewhere is prepared to set up insurance for such a thing.
To those that say “oh well they’re acting on information” theres something called due diligence! 80% of the time if officers, or judges did their due diligence they wouldnt be fucking it up for the officers that strive to make an actual fucking difference!
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ReplyImagine if they put some of that money they spend on police, dea, locking people up on addressing the issues that causes so many people to want to take drugs.
ReplyIf the police are so scared of people having guns, maybe make it more difficult for people to have guns
ReplyMy God is this in some communist regime or east European Ex Russian country where is Civilization here
ReplyJohn Oliver has been sent to us to do God’s work. Stellar segments. Simply, stellar.
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ReplyJohn Oliver videos are interesting.. I laugh and enjoy them. But when it’s something I am an expert in, I always find it cringe…. So as an expert in grenadeology I think a frag grenade would have worked better.
ReplyRemember reading about the flashbang crib. Honestly, just throw the death penalty at police for fuck ups. That’ll sort them out.
ReplyPoliticians love police raids because it reminds people to keep their heads down and obediently take their corruption, the injustices, the inequality, their incompetence, and their deceitfulness. They’re not about to change such a valuable tool of intimidation & suppression unless a lot more people call them out on their b.s.
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ReplyAnother episode of american policing is fucked up..
ReplyHeeeeyyy, it just occurred to me…
You need a long and difficult 8 year education to be a doctor, just to get the chance to try and save a life…
You need a 6 month course and minimal fitness levels to be able to take a life as a police officer…
Call it a hunch, but i think the barrier to entry is far to low.
ReplyJust rewatched this and I realized that not ONCE in this episode is it addressed that the creative mind behind “Cop Rock” was STEVEN BOCHCO. The man responsible for giving us the baby merchant number is the same guy who gave us NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues. And John even mentions the latter!
Replywelcome to another episode of “why America is secretly a third world country”
ReplyAmericas fucked uno
ReplyWell, for full disclosure, I do not have a gun, and I am fairly sure there is no cult leaders killing babies at my place. I do know however know that I have no criminal record and have not done anything that would warrant braking into the place during day, night or any time in between. Thus, if someone breaks in particularly if carrying fire arms, last thing I could reasonably assume is that it could be police. Also….in shocked stressful state I guarantee you that one reacts instinctively, not in a calm rational manner. In other words….yes. if I had a gun or preferably in these situations a machine gun….I would feel much safer after I discharge it into anything that moves (*hopefully excluding family members and pets). An attacker is an attacker…clothing and shouting does not matter much. Even if they shouted “police”…why would I believe such a thing (remember….I know for sure i did not do anything wrong…I can not know for sure that attackers are not lying as well as being violent)? Logic demands that cost of hesitation would be too high. Ultimately…yes, unless there is no proven threat to life no one should make raids.
ReplyOkay but bring back cop rock 😤
ReplyThis is just beyond words, i cannot even understand HOW your policing system got like this. I Feel truly sorry for you all.
ReplyI used to think SWAT members were the most highly trained and professional officers out there but seeing some of these overweight and out of shape officers waddling along with their battering rams really showed me the truth. WHY are these guys given such dangerous gear when they don’t have the training to even use it properly? Why isn’t it harder to become a Police Officer than it is now? This job is one that requires peak professionalism, mental toughness and stability and a lot of training but it seems like any average joe is welcomed onto the force and given this incredible amount of power. It makes zero sense to me.
ReplyDoesn’t seem like a very ‘developed’ nation…
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說到食物，不要以為那些被拒絕的人只吃垃圾。相反，他們學會了在被忽視的肉類和蔬菜中尋找營養。
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ReplyAmerica is a failed state
Reply13:45 wow
ReplyI kinda really want to watch cop rock… what is wrong with me
ReplyI’m a minute forty into this video and I gotta say, we’re off to a WILD start
ReplyHere’s a radical idea.. how about you properly train your officers? The UK has changed qualification requirements for policing in the past few years, and research shows that countries requiring degree level qualifications have a better police service with lower rates of wrongful arrest/ casualties. And while you’re at it educate them thoroughly on the racist context of biases and majority POC neighbourhoods
ReplyChicago PD: we make no mistakes, corrupt ass pigs
ReplyNearly every fictional bad guy in action movies never fears police raids. Can you guess why? They’re all rich, have lawyers on retainer & 90% of them are well-dressed white guys!
ReplyThose cops who laughed and celebrated their raid on an innocent mans house being played back, is absolutely, without any ambiguity, heinously disgusting. You destroyed his property, maybe killed or definitely injured and scarred his dog for life, and severely violated that man’s liberty and probably caused him lifelong harm. All for drugs? When there were actually NO DRUGS? What a nightmare.
Replyoh ffs
ReplyGuns + drugs + militarised policing…
ReplyWhat the duck?
ReplyI’m surprised they didn’t mention swatting
ReplyHow’s that freedom taste, america?
ReplyI love this man…..
ReplyReasons I can never move to America.
ReplyAmerica needs to build a giant flashy thing off Men In Black, and use it on their country. Just a fresh start….
ReplyEven yodel get the right house
ReplyThat baby merchant song is oddly catchy.
ReplyAwful country.
ReplyI would be interesting to knock on those policeman’s doors, (not at 3.00am, they’d probably shoot through the door!) and time how long it takes someone to answer!
Reply0:14 I think I’ve lost my mind…
Reply1:17 I’m no longer certain I’ve ever been sane.
I agree with the belligerent asshole. If my door was broken down in the middle of the night with no warning I’d fight back.
ReplyNgl, that “baby merchant” song is really catchy.
ReplyYo America, stop letting your police dress up like they’re an army, I live in a country where the police carry little more than tasers and this bullshit is unheard of
ReplyThe music from the training sounded like a really toned down version of attack on Titan’s first theme
ReplyThat family where the baby got grenaded – the mother begging for a hold of her injured son being told literally to sit down and shut up is beyond disgusting
ReplyWhy do Americans always try to think and act as if they were “a cool character” in a Hollywood film? That’s so cringe! 🤦♂️
You do know that cinema is not real, right?
ReplyMy parent’s house once git raided because the police were looking for a guy based off of an informant in Delaware. Then the police officer had the gall to tell my mother that if I had taken one step towards him he’d have shot me dead. I was unarmed, mind you and the guy wasn’t even in Florida. Then people wonder how someone could hate cops.
ReplyCriminal pigs deserve the death penalty.
ReplyGet Cop🎶Rock on Netflix!
ReplyWow. I really am grateful I don’t live in America.
ReplyAbsolutely shocking and disgraceful
Replythe more i hear about america the more i wonder why people want to live there.
ReplyThis is the next muppets film right? ??
ReplyThe more I watch John Oliver, the more I realize that almost the *entire* American police force is basically just an exclusive little club full of ‘ex-school bullies’ that never really grew up, and just want to (legally) get away with doing whatever the fuck they want.
ReplyThere is literally no theoretical or real reason to murder a live baby sitting on a table. The fact that they train them to do so is quite literally ridiculous and inhumane
ReplyBaby Merchant!
ReplyBro Baby Merchant is the best
ReplyThere is 1 easy solution get a proper door . If they take 20-30 min to get in it’s obsolete
ReplyGrenade into a crib.
Freaking unbelievable
ReplyIf Jese Ventura saw this he would explode
ReplyEscalation by the police again.
ReplyDoes anyone know the background music at 3:13?
ReplyCue: Rivera / Joker memes
ReplyWhite Americans make me glad I’ve not got a USA passport
ReplyWhat a shit show this country is if you’re a shade darker than the status quo
Hey John , no comments on Biden again…You really miss Trump…
ReplyI was wondering where the inspiration for the character Wayne gale came from.🐍🦂
ReplyPolice station should have a gaming room, these guys only need the thrill and it doesn’t have to be real one.
ReplyOh gods the mental image of several very high people playing Catan is um huh
ReplyWtf? USA get your sh1t together man.
ReplyACAB ACAB ACAB
ReplyY’all ever see the movie Brazil? When they made that, it was fictional. Those were the days.
ReplyFair fucking shout to dale!!!!!
ReplyPossible drug Evidence is not worth human lives. No-knock raids are dangerous, too many innocent people have been caught up in them. No-knock/not waiting for an answer should be illegal! I am disabled if they accidentally did that to me no way I can get to the door in 20 seconds!
ReplyI thought Reno 911 was a spoof not a reflection of real life! 🤣
ReplyFinally released in the UK
ReplyBecause anyone in the US could own a gun, you need a SWAT team to carry out a search warrant . A few weeks ago at university we were studying how with Australian search warrants the police don’t need to go in full SWAT team. The 2nd amendment is just so troubling.
ReplyUsually I say John doesn’t go far enough on his damage control measures but surprisingly I agree if this practise is to be continued (and I heavily, heavily disagree that it should) only as a last resort for hostages of dangerous cults is certainly the correct course of action
Also they should be punished for fucking up you use military grade equipment you get military grade court martialing
ReplyI haven’t watched your show for so long, came back and realised USA is still fucked up. It’s sad, I’m angry after what I’ve seen. Great material.
Replyfuck the 5-0
ReplyAnother side effect of the war on drugs. Thanks Reagan.
ReplyGood lesson to learn – Stay the fuck away from America, the most dangerous developed country in the world.
ReplyI lived in Louisville. The smell of Marijuana is very common; especially in trendy White Neighborhoods and Bars/Clubs. They are rarely raided. I remember once a raid on a suspected Dealer (who was White) living in the Upscale Highlands (close to Mitch McConnell’s neighborhood). I was on my bike and the raid was happening during the red light. Very uncomfortable
ReplyNice
ReplyGreat video
ReplyOne of the few reasons to be proud to be British. Good show, John.
ReplyThey have raids for drug offenses for the same reason they criminalize drugs: to oppress poor black and brown communities. They don’t even act this way when trying to apprehend a murderer.
ReplyGlad I don’t actually remember Cop Rock 🤮
ReplyFunny that I could not find a single comment justifying cops’ atrocities, and yet they are convinced that they “serve and protect” the community…
ReplyWhat’s also funny is that the very same [reichwing] individuals who scream at every corner “government get the hell out my life” are the very same ones who proudly display “Support Your Local Police” bumper stickers…
murica for ya, such a beautiful country, too bad its overloaded of retards
ReplyI’m the 💖baby merchant💖
ReplyThis seems unnecessarily dangerous for everyone involved. This should not be happening.
ReplyGreat show John. Very informative. Well done.
ReplyI think some good sensitivity training should be in order for all swap teams and police raid units. Before they can participate, they should have to experience the traumatic shocking ordeal themselves where some random cops they don’t know show up to their homes in a no knock warrant. The need to experience the trauma themselves to be able to empathize. Essentially, these cops are domestic terrorists everytime they raid an innocent home. They traumatized the individuals, broke down their doors, wasted tax dollars and accomplished nothing. These things really need to end!
ReplyGod, you’re type of humour sucks so badly
ReplyWhat pos downvoted this? Oh, wait… the cop that threw the grenade into the crib.
ReplyThe US seems so fucked up. Why would anyone want to live there?
ReplyThere must be a reason why those things don’t happen in the rest of the civilised world.
ReplyAs a Wood Elf, a female, a mother of nine, and a criminal on the run, I can say with full confidence to the American Police: “I have nothing to fear from you.” 13:45
Reply16:50-17:56 Fuck, even Inspector Clouseau is laughing is head off. Alas, in the Breonna Taylor case, I’m torn between crying tears for her family and laughing my fucking ass off at the incompetence of the police, since the guy they were looking for; namely Breonna’s ex; was IN THEIR FUCKING CUSTODY ALREADY!!!! How stupid do you have to be.
23:37 “What do we do about this?” Well, John, how about what that Georgia congressman said? Shoot fucking cops. Shoot them, kill them, defund them.
Oh my lord my blood pressure
ReplyOne of John Oliver’s best segments I think, very passionately expressed. Thanks LWT
ReplyAll cops are dirty until the individual officer proves themselves clean.
ReplyBad and stupid people become bad and stupid cops.
ReplyThe wrong house bit reminds me of the very first scene of Line of Duty. A british crime drama about police officers investigating corruption within the police.
ReplyThe US Police and SWAT teams are now basically a paramilitary force on par with the Nazi SS. They even wear the same black, angled helmets of their insidious Third Reich inspirations.
ReplyI’m from the UK.
ReplyThe police raided my flat one Sunday morning, at about 8.30 am, taking me completely by surprise.
A very polite and well spoken officer knocked ON my door (with the door knock) and I opened the door (because I wasn’t expecting the police). He asked if he could come inside and talk to me about some stolen goods and perchance have a quick look around my flat? 🤔 I asked if he had a warrant and he said no, but if i wanted to, then he could drive me to the police station and lock me up until he obtained one, so I agreed. I was (honestly) clueless about everything he spoke to me about, and I think it showed 🤨 So, he had a quick look around my flat, smiled at me as he moved my weed from one side of the table to the other whilst sorting through all the rubbish everywhere, and then left, after apologising for bothering me. He even phoned me the next week to say that I needn’t worry about them bothering me again (which I thought was rather nice).
I’m very glad I don’t live in America 👍
It’s currently popular to see everything as a race issue but. There’s probably far more guns in those neighbourhoods then the other. And a much higher crime rate. statistics that can be looked at without seeing race. Interestingly you’r seeing race in this. The only reason that your not being called out as a racist is because your framing it from the victims perspective. Your validating their vitomhood. But technically this his just as racists as saying African Americans are far more likely to commit crimes then Anglo-saxons. Both statements are equally problematic.
ReplyI watch a lot of these episodes but this one really got to me. Just left speechless because of how angry I am that this happens.
Is America seriously still considered a “first world country”
Reply20 seconds to answer your door? There are so many reasons why this time frame is ridiculous!
– old people who move slowly
– disabled people with a variety of disabilities that could cause them to take a while to answer the door
– someone sleeping would never be able to answer the door in that time
– maybe someone is listening to music with headphones and doesn’t hear the knock on the door
– someone could be in the backyard and not hear the doorbell
– parent could be busy with their kid and might not be able to stop what they’re doing within 20 seconds
Probably so many more normal reasons that aren’t “flushing a miniscule amount of drugs down the toilet”…
ReplyJoliver is doing God’s work.
ReplySettlers of Catan and Subway? Incentive to smoke!
ReplyOne thing I’d be curious about is the success rate of various forms of “reasonable suspicion” used in raids. Because if one of those sources is low then how can it be considered “reasonable suspicion?”.
Also qualified immunity is supposed to protect valuable experts from genuine mistakes. Using it as blanket protection from a complete lack of training is absurd.
ReplyThe cop who killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones during a raid was re-instated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Aiyana_Jones
ReplyCop🎵Rock might be the best TV show I’ve never heard of.
ReplyI sought it out. I don’t understand how that even came to be… Hangover from the cocaine fueled 80’s?
Replytoo late. I fell into the cop rock rabbit hole.
ReplyHow? how the fuck do you walk past a house asking wheres the house?
ReplyNot that our Police are perfect here in Canada, Thank God I Live here.
ReplyThis is in direct opposition to the fourth amendment. We, as American citizens, should be secure in our own home, no matter the circumstances.
ReplyThis is my favorite clip of all time.
ReplyAmericans have really taken John Oliver to their hearts but all he does is show the rest of the world what a fucked up third-world country the USA is….it truly is
Replysorry guys i’m italian – us l.e. seems just crazy…
ReplyWatching this show over the last years has made me realize how this ‘american dream’ has been one of the biggest lies ever. I am an european citizen in my 30s who grew up thinking USA is the place to go to.
ReplyI don’t even want to visit now.
police = lawful gang..
ReplyThis is so fucked up
ReplyYou’re right; these departments are doing terrible work. They’re clearly under-qualified, under-trained and under-incentivized. How do you solve this problem? Raise the standards, hire less of them and pay them more, or take away their funding, lower the standards and pay them less?
ReplyMisremembered nursery rhyme indeed.
ReplyI mean…the Big Bad Wolf couldn’t break down the brick house walls and ended up dying when trying to enter it. So…Stupid name for a heavily armored vehicle meant to break into homes.
All cops are butts
Reply“Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
ReplyACAB
ReplyYou can be sure for three things. 1.) In America selling coffins is lucrative. 2.) In America selling doors is insanely lucrative. 3.) The entire world sells both to America and laughs because they waste money on tanks and automatic guns for their police instead of telling them to use the bell.
ReplyEverything is so corrupt its beyond recover
ReplyMy home was raided as a child. Luckily I slept through it (heavy sleeper). They were looking for my uncle, he hasn’t lived at our house for years. They broke down our door and scared the f out of my mom. acab 😌
Reply“Grenading a baby might not be necessary” yeah
ReplyNo wonder people own guns and want to murder these police thugs.. they deserve it..
ReplyOne time my wife was having a panic attack and was shouting for help. We lived in an apartment complex, so naturally the police were called by a neighbor. Understandable. 1 to 2 police officers should come make sure she is ok, understandable. 5 cops, 3 cop cars, lights and sirens. I opened the door in my pajamas to tell them she was having a panic attack. She was shouting at them to leave and that she was fine and that I was not beating her. One of the officers begins to push open my door. I stop him and say “I do not give you permission to enter my home.” He said “We have probable cause and don’t need permission.” I said “Probable cause? She is shouting for you to leave and that I am not harming her. So 1 officer can verify that then you can leave.” One cop entered and did that while the other 4 cops forced me onto my balcony in my pajama’s. At this point I was a bit annoyed, embarrassed(the neighbors were enjoying the show) and less understanding. I said something about this being unnecessary and ridiculous. A younger, muscled, buzzcut, meathead type cop then got inches from my face and stuck his finger in my face saying “Don’t get a f*cking attitude!” I said “Wow, calm down bro. I’m not your enemy.” He then backed away, I assume realizing he was not going to goad me into a confrontation, not a physical one at least. The first cop then left my apartment and then said if my wife did not calm down they would take her to jail. She is disabled and prone to panic attacks, and agoraphobic. That is how they were going to help her. After they realized I was wasn’t beating my wife and they couldn’t feed their White Knight complex’s, it became that we were a problem. Worst part is, months later a new neighbor was beating his wife. Me and my wife heard it clear as day(cheap thin apartment walls), the sound of fist hitting flesh, it’s a distinctive sound. I called the police(literally for the first time in my 30 years of life), the cops showed up and his wife had a bloody nose. Like a typical abused person, the wife backed up a lie about her nose bleeding because of the removal of a nose ring. Was that what woke me and my wife at 3 a.m., removing a nose ring while the words “stupid, fat, b*tch” are screamed? The cops left and nothing happened, other than me and my wife being ostracized from that point forward. Never had a positive interaction with the police in my life, and I am a white man. Just shows you how out of control the police have become. My heart goes out to every minority and woman treated far worse than me.
ReplyI’m a big fan of the Judge Dredd comics, about a fascist police force ruling over the citizens. They can kick your door down unannounced, use military grade weapons, and rule through fear…but at least they actually give compensation if they don’t find a crime and face harsh punishment when they go too far.
ReplyThis is not a good thing.
My small city in Eastern Connecticut has a vehicle like that Big Bad Wolf. It’s a vile, obnoxious boondoggle that the cops only bring out during the annual Fourth of July parade.
ReplyIf your parcel delivery driver got the wrong house he would be looking for a new job
ReplyJust what the world needs. Coppers who think they are soldiers.
Absolute proof that the GOP are eejits. How can you possibly think that this doesn’t need fixing? In fact, they want to arm them more!
As an ex combat engineer in my dim and distant youth, I have to tell you that none of those cops would pass any of the explosives handling courses I had to do in the 1980s!!
ReplyCops have to wait only 20 seconds before they smash down the door ?? The Cops should go around a half hour earlier and that would give them plenty of time. 🤔😎😋 😁😆🤣
ReplyAreas not raided I like to call law enforcement neighbourhoods! Cops migrate into the same neighbourhood like they agree on it, like DA, or DEA live in the same area! Also, Black and Hispanic are targeted more by the paid informants, news investigators, military, airforce, and civilian patrols via aircraft (civil air patrol) or ground units! Mainly aircraft because they are to scare to be on the ground. You should do a segment on the 3 percenters some group that believes they are the 3% left out of the population that are righteous!
ReplyThe irony of the US thinking it has a lesson to give to china on human rights…
ReplyCops basing all of their “raid intel” off tips given to them by _known felons_ who are trying to bargain their way into a lighter sentence?
ReplyYeah, I wonder why these kind of screwups keep happening over and over again?
I swear, at this point TV drama scriptwriters needs to make a cameo of this. “We got our mad-ass dope base in Magnificent Mile. Why? ‘Cuz the Feds never check there HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH”
ReplyCop Rock was great. If it had come out after Glee it would have been a hit.
ReplyYou know you don’t really have real rights when a group of people can break down you door, flash grenade you and your family, terrorize everyone, trash your residence and possibly cause significant bodily harm while being at the wrong house THEY ARE NOT EVEN REQUIRED TO PAY FOR HOUSE DAMAGES. Could you imagine having to explain that to a landlord, they would probably suspect you of being involved with drugs after having the house raided even if your absolutely not.
ReplyAll this is acceptable because they were wearing clothes that say “police” on them.
John Oliver: *Explains issues with raids and how innocent individuals have regularly been the ones to suffer*
Idiots in the comments: hE iS jUsT tRyInG tO gUiLt WhItE PeOpLe AnD pRoTeCt cRiMInALs
🤦♂️
ReplyIn places like Europe, getting a raid warrant is very difficult. Secondly over here raids with weapons are only permitted if it is suspected that weapons are held at the place. Finally almost all raids never see any death or injury.
ReplyYou know that the police could have used Google Map to look for the right house with pictures and surroundings before they even leave the base. There is just no excuse for busting the wrong door.
ReplyThis episode makes me happy I live in Oregon…
ReplyThis is why you shouldn’t defund the police. They desperately need an extensive national training program, so that this sorta stuff, and all the other nonsense, stops happening
ReplyI saw a video the other day from a german who was living in the US and is now living in Japan, where he talked about the different types of Police in each of the countrys. He told a story from when he first lived in the US and his US friends told him directly: if you interact with the police, do nothing, tell them nothing about yourself and ask 2 questions “Is that all?” and “Can i go now?”, because the police is not your friend, they are your enemy. US law enforcement are horrible compared to the UK, Germany or Japan.
ReplyEasy solution is state legislators pass laws that the officers that sign and apply for search warrants are legally and financially liable as individuals for wrongly served raids. Naturally the police unions can cover the costs of the incompetence. The union executives will feel some money costs and will push out the incompetent cops and encourage the department executives to fire those incompetent individuals. Too many ex-cops are legislatures so this solution is not likely to occur.
ReplyThe irony is, that because people up here in Canada see the drama in the states with the police. They too want to defund our police, which does not have any of these military toy’s or fancy stuff the American’s have. Just cop cars, speeding camera’s, and the parade horses.
ReplyThe saddest thing is that most Americans don’t realise how much of a parody of themselves they really are 🤦🏻
ReplyTime to get the same police officers swatted. Let them have a taste of their own medicine—happens enough times, something is gonna change.
Reply“If only the Wolf had possessed military-grade equipment”, you say as you tuck your children in at night
Replylmao
Love reading these comments… cant believe there are so many police experts
ReplyI thought only black people raid stuff. *attention* offensive joke
ReplyJohn mate…its time you came home.
ReplySo much carelessness on the part of the police is hard to believe. I’ve never held a job where I could make a lethal mistake like the ones shown, but the people who do those jobs should be held to a higher standard than they are being held to now.
ReplySo well said John
ReplyWorld class, as always.
ReplyThe Law Office of Oliver and Writers.. Imagine!
ReplyLand of the free.
ReplyLIKKKKKKE THE VIDEO YLLLL KNOW THE DEALLLL
ReplyThe wooden romania computationally coil because dahlia phenotypically mend to a green grey grieving gas. wary, rotten conga
ReplyI’m from a different country so I have little knowledge of these raids, but I do remember seeing these in multiple police shows and getting the wrong house in a no-knock raid is often played for laughs. Which, considering the situation, is honestly terrifying. Why on earth would you do that? Facing a gun is terrifying in itself. Facing multiple army grade equipment is straight up traumatizing. How is this still a thing?
ReplyIts no wonder gang violence is rife in the US. They get uniforms and full paid benefits.
ReplyThanks for the info. I would like a less biased review. Or are all raids failures?
ReplyFlash bang in a crib????? W the actual F is that???!!!! I
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I would be one of those belligerent assholes. Hell the officers that didn’t announce themselves during or after shining spot lights and flashlights in every window is my home at 3am waking me and my wife up, where greeted with a gun when I opened the door to check what the hell was going on. Thankfully I noticed their uniforms and stepped back far enough to put the gun down before they noticed the gun. Otherwise their warrantless search of my property, detention, and forced identification could have ended much worse than just a violation of my rights.
ReplyLaw idea: every door broken comes out of the police’s paycheque 500% to include compensation if no conviction.
ReplyACAB
ReplyAmerica is a real shit show.
ReplyThe inexpensive jewel remarkably suppose because liquid unprecedentedly expect onto a rapid side. awesome, whispering character
ReplyUsing the breana taylor case is not a great example there is alot more to that case. She was also involved in much more criminal activities
ReplyHard to catch organized criminals without raids tho. Ends up saving lots of lives realistically, they are conducted every day and we really only hear about the unsuccessful ones, and in a country that big theres bound to be quote a few. Too many fuckups, and that for sure needs to change, as is evident in the case of Breonna Taylor. But still, outside looking in people really don’t understand how much good police do, as they are mostly privileged suburbanites who don’t have to face the evils of organized crime on a daily basis.
ReplySuch a dog shit country. They love killing black people and have non stop massacres.
ReplyAnd that’s what happens when you live in pseudo-democratic fascist plutocracy.
ReplySomeone had to write an upbeat rock song about child trafficking and a little bit of my soul shrivelled up and died for them.
ReplyThis all comes back to America’s lack of gun control. The police have to treat everyone as if they are armed, until they can confirm that you’re not. Elsewhere in the world the police treat you as if you’re not armed, unless they have evidence that you might be. This complete mindset change is why there’s so many more innocent people killed by police in the USA than other developed countries.
ReplyWhat started this “war on drugs”?
Basically Nixon wanted to stop all the anti Vietnam war demonstrations but couldn’t due to your constitutional right to peaceful protest, so he created laws that made drugs illegal, and one of the worst drugs according to him… Marijuana (And why you’ll get a harsher penalty for dope than for known harder drugs).
Dope was the most popular drug of choice for young rally go-ers, overnight he had a way of stopping your right to peaceful protest.
“SWAT” teams proliferated, as the same lawmakers gave money to local police to create these special police teams. If the local guys promised to help on the “war on drugs” they got given shitloads of money to militarise their police forces. Go ahead and research the effectiveness of these so called “elite” police, it’s woeful, it’s disgustingly poor.
Police are not trained to operate in the military methods they employ, it shows in their pathetic level of ineffectiveness. A soldier who doesn’t follow the rules of engagement will end up at the wrong end of a military court, if the injure or kill a non combatant, even by mistake they’ll be in jail and if their lucky the jail will be in their country, not the country the conflict was in. But not police, they get immunity, for illegally assaulting and killing their OWN COUNTRYMEN.
And it’s not just America, a lot of so -called civilised western democracies are going down the same path. Here in Australia we tend to copy a lot of the mistakes you make in the US. One day we (ordinary citizens) will wake up. Maybe, nah, probably not.
ReplyAmerica would be a much better place if they would handle the problems that John is discussing for the last 6 years.
ReplyThese ” officers” are acting like terrorists lol.
Replyjesus christ… so happy to not live in that insane country
ReplyDear HBO when you need a replacement for John Oliver please hit me up because I am the guy for the job. I’m comical, serious, and very realistic (negative outlook because everything is fucked)
ReplyAnd americans love to lecture the world.
ReplySo, in short: It’s deeply woven into the US American self-conception that, in case of someone intruding into your home, you may legally defend yourself with even a firearm – unless the attacker is a member of police force on duty. Which you’re probably supposed to figure out at 3am, just awoken by, of all things, bangs on your door and people shouting and progressing through your home very quickly.
While possible invading the wrong address. Which to find out they had days or weeks, and which to actually find they could completely freely plan as they pleased – this is a surprise operation, after all.
So the victim is supposed to be better at figuring out the other side than _an actual official governmental department_, that can not only execute any ever so radical measure with seemingly limitless supply, but also _give sanction to this measure_ by means of legal procedures. And, might I stress again: They weren’t just woken up, they are not naked, they don’t have their babies with them.
This, frankly, is embarrassing.
ReplyExcellent! The war against Americans has got to stop! AKA the War on Drugs has been going on since Nixon and it’s only made things worse.
Replywhy cant everyone in this country be made to watch all of your episodes. this country would be a better place in doing so. funny how we have to have an immigrant from England come to this country and call shit as it is. why did we all let this shit get to this point in the first place. sad very very sad the state of this world. I fear for the future and am horrified and the thoughts of what might be. my poor children and grand children have no idea what we have done to them.
ReplyI love John’s show…except for the fact that It always leaves me feeling like I’m a horrible person for not gathering up a mass following and marching out to make a change in the world as quickly as possible…but damn is he funny about it
ReplyLegalize drugs.
ReplyWho’s scarier, cops or drug dealers?…… Cops.
Portugal, proves it’s the best way to deal with drugs.
Uhhh did you ever see how cops react to being told they are too violent? They respond with more violence. Fuck defund the police how about abolish them and start over!
Reply#acab
ReplyYeah what a shi*hole America is!
ReplyYeah, I agree with the Senator. If someone’s breaking down my door at 3 in the morning for what I would have to consider no known reason at all, I don’t care if they’re shouting “POLICE! POLICE!” Like he said, it could be ANYBODY. The people breaking into my home maybe using this as a way to rob me. So someone’s getting blown the fuck up. I’d rather go to prison and live than to die because I’m supposed to believe that anyone shouting “POLICE! POLICE!” is indeed legit.
ReplyAnd as far as the grenade being thrown into the baby’s crib, I can’t think of ANY REASON whatsoever why this scenario would have to occur. These dumbasses playing cops and robbers who wind up taking a life because they raided the wrong house need to fucking die and go to hell. FUCK ALL OF YOU!!!
now i gotta fucking watch cop rock. fuck’s sake
ReplyIs it wrong that I randomly jam out to cop rock now?
ReplyEverything I learn about your country sounds like it comes from a nightmare
ReplyDo American police have any eduction? Terrible.
ReplyHear me out… How about you legalize, sanction, and therefore actually “control” these drugs? Save lives, stop garbage like this ever being taught/funded, stop cartels, and move on to fix actual problems like idk, how these “police” are hired? And obviously never have mental checks conducted on them throughout their entire career… The real problems in the US system are rooted before they get to these fools… There’s no “good, hero politician” waiting on the sidelines to get his/her turn and fix everything. It’s on the people to create new a “common sense”, that the slowest of our slow species realize there will be consequences for not attempting to understand, and improve everyone’s life.
ReplyThe police are an invading army, fuck’em
ReplyWhy not just send a plainclothes up the door first dressed as a pizza deliveryman, electrician, anything? Why not run your info by the super, or whoever owns the place about to be raided? Why not look at the energy consumption of the place, see if it is enough for one, two or however any people there should be? Why not ask the postal fucking office about who would they be delivering the mail if they were dropping it off at that place? Is there really no way to double check the intelligence before you kick the door down? (I am actually asking btw; curious)
ReplyI mean shit, SWAT is SWAT, they aren’t trained to communicate, they are there to walk in with the door frame and disable people, preferably without killing them, itself a difficult task…but they are just the weapon, somebody else pulls the trigger, right?
No place is truly secure from the threat of police violence.”
ReplyOMG LOL I can’t get over how many trashy stories come out of the US. Fh!
ReplyAmerica has never moved on from the Wild West days.
ReplyMy house was raided when I was 12 years old with a no-knock warrant. There were 16 men in military gear with rifles pointing at my mom and me. We had no idea who they were until an actual police uniform came in 15 minutes later. They used a flash-bang grenade in my room, dragged me off the top bunk of my bunk bed, then zip tied my hands behind my back for two hours. My fingers were blueish-purple by the time the detective cut the tie off. They had the wrong address. They still took $200 I got for my 12th birthday from a looney toons box in my room and all the money in my mother’s wallet.
Replystate attorney general’s office raided my home because I sold a gram of weed to an informant. They destroyed my room, found half a gram of weed and a bowl. That state AG is in prison now.
ReplyPolice what colour your skin?
ReplyBlack? Shoot to kill
White? Go about your business
Baby? Best flashbang him
This is one episode where I agree with John Oliver.
ReplySo are we just questioning the judicial system when we don’t agree with it or …….
ReplyThe police are becoming nothing more than power gluttons.
ReplyThe community here in eastern kentucky has a huge problem with the law and the power they have to do whatever they want with no reprocussions
ReplyRemember their faces. And what goes around comes around.
ReplyThe War on Drugs was and is an absolute failure.
ReplyFucking insane and terrifying, fuck the police
ReplyI seriously keep asking myself whether the world would be better off if China finally ran the show. The Chinese have no rights on paper, but they have a halfway competent dictatorship that gets stuff done and doesn’t kill or imprison you if you keep your mouth shut. Americns have rights on paper, but American institutions act like a North Korean Buffalo Bill on funnypills and do absolutely nothing for citizens.
ReplyJohn Oliver is my hero!!!!! Thank God we have some one who uses there platform to stand up for what’s right.
ReplyWait… what???? The police incorrectly raid your house, bust in your door, burn your carpet (or worse, I”m not even gonna get into that farce with the crib that makes me want to throw up) with flash-bangs and YOU have to pay for it???? What… the….actual…fuck….America… Get your shit together, it’s 2021.
Also, I lean to the left but I’ve never respected a Republican senator more than that guy. (I don’t know his other political views and don’t care to know so don’t come at me) He makes a perfect point here. I don’t even own a gun but if I did I certainly would consider using it if someone just came into my house unannounced… especially since I haven’t broken any laws and wouldn’t expect the police.
ReplyAs a European, this show is amazing!
We have been brought up looking at the great America (which is true in some cases), but this is absurd.
Every week I feel better about my country and worse about yours.
Cheers from Italy 🇮🇹
ReplyPolice are just America’s largest and most successful gang.
ReplyYou got a plant in there? You’d better not be sitting in there peacefully, with a plant!
ReplyHe’s got a plant! Everyone fire!
Here is your weekly reminder that all cops are bad. Yes, all cops. The entire system is so f-ed up, a good cop is a fired cop.
Just consider this:
Chemical weapons are illegal to use in war. In war. A event where killing other humans is not only allowed, but encouraged.
Chemical weapons are illegal in war.
Cops use chemical weapons on peaceful civilians.
ReplyDoes any more really need to be said?
As a soon to be Immigrant (Yeah go ahead and hate on me), you guys have no idea how better off you are than the other countries. Jon Oliver could do a dozen episodes everyday and still cover just a state.
Reply*What are you talking about?* American was BUILT on racism!!! Everything about it smells racist from killing First Nation indigenous people to making Africans slaves to penning up Japanese Americans during WWIII to building a wall to keep out Mexicans. Then jumping into the Middle East, Vietnam and Korea to dropping nukes on Japan!!! The list goes on and on and on and there’s no sign of it abating in spite of the ironical fact that most Americans believe in Jesus who (allegedly) radiated peace and “Love Thy Neighbour and Love thy Enemy and turn the other cheek”.
ReplyNo wonder the rest of the world hates them (more or less). It’s a good thing for them that they have enough nukes to destroy the ecosystem a hundred times over!
*Americans should be building a wall to KEEP AMERICANS IN!!!*
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I’m a heavily Pro-Union person but Police Unions need to be stripped of their power.
Signing up to protect yourself from having your pension stripped at a Steel Mill is FAARRRRRR different from having your ass covered if you burn a baby with a Flash Grenade.
Mr. Officer… You signed up to protect other people and NOT TO KNOW FOR A FACT you can kill Ms Beautiful Breonna Taylor and get away with it.
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The most effective way to combat drugs is legalize them….nobody learned their lesson from prohibition. Same things happened, but instead of the Mafia it’s the cartels now
ReplyThis is what europe think of, when they think of America. 😛
ReplyThis is what europeans think of, when they hear the word “America”. 😛
ReplyThe best thing about Cop Rock is that the theme song was written and performed by Randy Newman. Do what you will with that information.
ReplyAnd you see why people want to defund these walking immune Nuke weapons.
ReplyI don’t understand the war on drugs. We disapprove of what people put in their bodies so much that we’re willing to kill innocents in the process.
ReplyFor all the militant-minded civilians hoarding guns thinking they’re protecting themselves from potential unjust government military action, they sure are blissfully unaware of the fact that it’s already happening… except it’s against people who can’t afford guns in the first place, thus rendering the right to bear arms completely pointless. Maybe gun advocates should pay attention to the “organized militia” part of the second amendment, so we can start actually protecting each other from incompetent, over-equipped, sadistic police?
ReplyThis is so fucked up 🤬
ReplyAbolish qualified immunity.
ReplyBlm is just black k3
ReplyIt’s bugging the hell out of me but I’m getting Phil Collins vibes from that baby merchant. It’s horribly catchy.
ReplyJUST AMAZING, THANKS OLIVER. KEEP TELLING THE TRUTH.
ReplyThe cops looked like children. ” what house???” Makes me cry
ReplyI hope all these raid cops go to hell
ReplyNothing will change. America and America Light (Canada, the America wannabe), just doesn’t care. The lobbyists are too powerful, and half of the population doesn’t care, because they’re not the target of these raids.
Not to say we shouldn’t keep getting the message out there. I’m just saying that the power balance is weighted too heavily in the favour of the few who want stuff like this.
ReplyWho’s ready for raids to enforce red flag laws, hopefully they have home security cameras to rewatch those shoot outs!
ReplyThe absolute nerve of that cop saying “you don’t have to shout”!! 🤬
ReplyPolice: *Traumatizes woman irreparably*
Also police: “Damn why you gotta be so angry, you’re starting to hurt my feelings”
ReplyI just want to shout out loud.
ReplyYeah Settlers!
ReplyIt makes me sick just how much I didn’t know about what minorities go through until George Floyd’s murder happened. I wanna find an island and start a new country where you have to take an “I’m not a racist asshole” test to move to.
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