Let's talk about a cop asking me for training....
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My husband used to work a few blocks away from our house. He didn't make much money, so he used to come home on his half hour lunch break and make a sandwich. Because his lunch was so short, he would have to run. One day there were police sitting in the parking lot across the street. He left work and jogged home as usual. He had never even seen the police, but they assumed he ran because he saw them. EVEN THOUGH HE WAS IN HIS UNIFORM COMING FROM WORK. They pulled up on him, drew their guns and both started yelling for him to put his hands on his head. He said that he almost put his hands behind his back because he was so scared he got confused. Lucky for him, they didn't shoot him, but afterwards the cops laughed about how they almost shot him. They said there was a robbery nearby and he was running so they thought he might be the robber. I looked for news of a robbery nearby for days and never found any. These idiot cops just saw a black guy running and assumed he must be guilty of something. All because he wanted to come home and eat lunch with me and his newborn Daugher. Maybe you do need to train more cops. That kind of stupidity is inexcusable.
Jesus. Reading this made my stomach ache. I'm so glad your husband is okay, and I'm so sorry you live in a society where you're in danger from your own "protectors."
Holy shit...
@Cegesh It's not just Yankee cops. In my state of NSW the entire year failed the ethics course at the police academy. So the state dropped he ethics requirement.
@Monty Baconeater
Um... they don't enforce the laws on themselves... Therefore you are also wrong. They are the law, just as that officer implied.
Here's a system which mostly works: www.siu.on.ca/en/index.php
Stacey C I’m surprised more people have not commented on this! This is a travesty and a recurring theme in the US toward black men. Not to exclude I’m sure there are some Caucasian brothers that encounter it as well.
Though, the culture is dictating these actions and putting cops with bad intentions out on the streets. Right wing terrorist have groomed themselves for this type of insurrection! OUT!
I'm long retired but I used to be a police officer many years ago and I have noticed that police have a different attitude today. They actually scare me whenever I have contact with them and I'm an old white former cop; I can only imagine how young black men feel when they get stopped by the police today.
Remarkably, you're just now seeing an extension of the timeline of the days when you were a beat cop. The inevitable bleed-over of tactics once reserved for specific groups eventually affecting the whole of the criminal justice system- a combination of a metastasizing cancer and a race to the bottom, hypercharged by a general societal apathy. Now if you can imagine that today is almost Jim Crow for everyone, try imagining how much worse it is for traditionally oppressed groups.
@@muslim9845 Stop with your racist bullsh*t already as I dealt with all types of people and none of them were angels. In fact, the worst were drunken cowboys in rural areas.
ACAB. Even retired old farts like you.
I'm 49 years old and I'm from Brownsville in Brooklyn. Growing up i was never worried about getting killed by police or being beaten to death. Growing up the worse thing was a cop being petty or rude. Now it's basically life and death. If we got caught doing something wrong alot of times the cop would take the time to give you a leasture or a life lesson. The world is definitely different...
@@muslim9845
= dipus shitus
When I was in the Marines we were given way more training in regards to what should be done when detaining someone. Cops should be taught better than Marines when we’re talking about detaining civilians. Marines are trained warriors. Cops are peace officers. If I have to explain the difference then you shouldn’t be allowed to touch a firearm.
THIS!
Thank you! Yes!!!
Yeah, most cops are fat, fucking faggots. Military training minus the warrior BS. If you don't care about bettering your fellow man KILL YOURSELF.
Yep. I’ve been blessed to know a few Marines, a Seal, a Special Forces and even a JAG Judge.
I’m not military, but they keep on showing up in my life.
Good.
That requires money and turning people away. Money for all the training and turning people away because there is a mindset that is attracted to the power of being a cop. That group should never be cops.
“The most dangerous people on the planet are true believers “. Very thought provoking.
"we write the reports". Sums up all the problems with the current state of police.
Another latecomer! I'm dipping into the Beau rabbit hole. He's a good secular preacher of sorts from what I can tell. Its sad that even recommending the guy to a cop would be counter productive in most of North America. This vid and the militarization vid are good public intellectual stuff for LE types, but the people who need to hear it will never get the chance. PD sucks balls here too. Caught in a whirlpool of shit cops, courts, jails, and public apathy/exasperation.
@josh S ...and that "warrior" training for cops that I watched before... where cops are trained to treat everyone as a "threat" that needs to be dealt with.
@@gaijinph we need more training. Not just on how to deal with each situation, but also when to call in others that are better equipped to deal with specific situations such as mental illness, special needs, just to name 2.
The most important part of the story is that the whole room full of cops laughed. “A few bad apples” is the beginning of the idiom. “...spoils the whole barrel” is the second half.
Beau is definitely a needed messenger and teacher.
Bo I am a 48 year old Black man born in Jackson Mississippi lived there until I was 18 and my family moved to SaintPaul Minnesota I have 3 young boys and I make them watch your video every day because you give them the knowledge I’ve been trying to share with them since they were born and I just want to say thanks and please continue doing this it is helping America be the country we believe it can be ! Thanks Bo.
Thanks for the above comment.
Mr Ole Skool G....thank you for this, as Marguerite said.....what a powerful emotion I felt; more meaningfull now than ever; I hope you have all the success you were looking for a year ago (this doesn't matter at all, but I'm an old white woman) I began my career in a recreation center, next to "Projects"; I never met such potential and such sadness in my town....(& I'm proud to provide, in recreation, what is often missing in other "services") I wish you and your sons the very best...
I am happy to hear that you are giving knowledge to your boys. I also have my 14-year-old daughter watch this with me as well.
Yo I live near St. Paul that’s sick
I am only responding to this because I cannot thumbs up this more..... A THOUSAND TIMES WHAT THIS MAN SAID
I'm a young BLACK convicted felon. And I have still always preached that regardless of the systematic unfairness I've seen shown towards my people in this country. I just can't be racist or hateful towards anyone. Because of white people (men & women) like you sir. Thank you for not being blinded by idiotic hatred like the majority of the whites throughout this countries history. I never met you. But have a love and respect for you that is beyond words. Thank you so much for being the way you are.
It is you who deserve the respect and admiration.
tHANK YOU FOR THESE BEAUTIFUL WORDS. I WISH YOU ONLY THE BEST.
Can't be racist against white people. Racism is systemic oppression which means to be racist it requires actionable power. Like when a white person improperly involves the cops in a situation involving a black person, or the threat of it.
That ability is white supremacy, which is what makes all white people racist. Because all we have to do is nothing and white supremacy benefits us. That systemic oppression that can only be felt by being marginalized.
It's why it's so hard for a lot of white people to recognize it. We're taught to see hate crimes and not look any deeper. Like why they got xyz that someone else didn't.
Thank you! Have a nice day.
@@kylekalmbach I see the points you're getting at. And you've articulated your point of view very well
You deserve respect and admiration too!! Black men, women and children have been put through such awful things for so long, because of the greed and egos of white people. I will never understand how someone can judge or hate someone based on something as necessary as melanin….it makes no sense to me. I know your comment is a couple years old, I hope you’re doing well.
Wow. Now i understand why my dad hates cops. Hes an ex seal, never fully explained his hatred for them but this would make sense.
I know this stuff for the same reason he did. If he was sent to get someone for interrogation, he had to bring them back alive.
Beau of the Fifth Column great video man. Sent it to him and he said you hit the nail on the head.
You deal in a dangerous commodity my friend....the truth. Stay safe.
Like some things, _"truth"_ can both be a problem and a solution.
funny because beau isn't his real name and the accent isn't real... look up "the fifth column" on youtube for his channel. He's an anarchist.
@@collegewifi5024 so, truth and common sense are the same no matter the source.
@@collegewifi5024 I think you'll find that , the word for that is progression, political ideologies and political affiliation like anything else, progress. I was once a steadfast Republican. Durring the Occupy movement my belief system changed to see the Anarchist ideology more clearly and now my views are more liberal. Education changes the way you see the world and with that the way you operate in it. Actually it's very brave of him to leave those older videos up even though some of you may attempt to malign him based on them.
Yes, I know that @@collegewifi5024 .....His interviews on other platforms don't have the accent.
I'm a civilian who comes from a long line of military and police, so was raised to trust the police, and to my horror as I became an adult I found all of my interactions with law enforcement have ranged from "Well that was unnecessary" to "I hope I got my will notarized". The worst mistake I ever made was on my honeymoon, my new wife and I asked an officer for directions as we were unfamiliar with the area. That scenario ended with my wife hysterical, two cops yelling at her to tell them the truth, the truth being "Is he your pimp?" "Did he ht you?" "Why are you crying?" at the time I was slammed against my mothers car which she loaned us for our honeymoon as we planned a road trip and camping but did not own a car. They ran my ID 3 different times, each time asking me in a more forceful tone if I had any warrants, did I have any drugs in the car, did I have any weapons (No, No, and I have a multi-tool in my back pocket). So they grab me, throw me out of the car, handcuff me, and shoved me against the car. By this point there were 6 units there, including a K-9. They searched the car, my wifes purse, finally they came to my camera bag. "Whats in there?" "My camera, I'm a photographer." So they searched it, by unzipping every pocket including the main one and dumping it out on the parking lot, busting the camera body and about $1500 worth of lenses. It took about two hours before they uncuffed me and let us go. The officer we originally asked for directions says to us "Well, you have to see this from our perspective." I stood there looking at my means of employment shattered all over the pavement and responded with "What POV is that exactly? How did asking a cop for directions warrant this response?" He just repeated himself until his CO came over and recognized me. The first put his hand on his sidearm and took a step back, and I told his CO he probably recognized me from a local law enforcement training program where I I had been teaching various forensic photography techniques,. He stood there for a moment and said "Oh yeah, a bunch of our officers and CSI's have taken your class, they said it was very informative. I pointed to my camera on the ground, which he watched the officer smash and said "Classes will be canceled until further notice." He just walked away and signaled them to leave.
First day of my honeymoon. We spent the rest of our two weeks off in our apartment. That was 15 years ago , I've called the cops once since then. Active shooter, across the street from our house. As soon as the first round went off we all hit the deck as everyone in the room, my wife, a friend, my attorney, and myself all either owned firearms or grew up in houses filed with them so we knew what a gunshot sounded like. I poked my head over the front window as my wife dialed 911. Our neighbor was standing on his front stoop with a Baretta 9mm just shooting at our house, after a few shots at our place he moved o to shooting at other houses, cars, just randomly don the street. We kived less than 2 miles from the station. It took 45 minutes for a single patrol car to arrive, and drive slowly down the street occasionally spotlighting houses. We had given them his name, address, description, etc. When he was done shooting he went back inside and started watching TV. The brass was still all over his stoop and yard. The cops never stopped. After that my wife and I got our concealed carry permits and each bought a handgun that suited us. I came to the conclusion that you call the cops because they have guns, not because they have badges. I wasn't going to let my wife get killed by some random asshole becaue the police couldn't bothered to get out of their car at the address of an active shooter. It was the middle of the night, there was no way we were the only ones who called 911, and we gave them his name and address. They never brought him in, saw him taking out his trash the next day. Brass still in his yard.
Thats two unfortunate encounters I have had with law enforcement, sadly I have more. Never been arrested, never spent a night in jail, worst ticket I ever got was for a busted tail light. As far a crime goes Im pretty vanilla. But I am a Native American, long black hair and everything. Second highest ethnic demographic that gets shot by police while unarmed. I suppose that my crime, being a city Injun instead of staying on the reservation where I belong. Oh, and my wife was a gorgeous model, very white. Thats how we met, me being a photographer, her being model. I guess that must have been a crime as well, but we're divorced now so you would think that I would have no more trouble with the law. You would be mistaken sir.
TL:DR - Native with no criminal record finds himself hassled, ignored, and nearly killed (another story) by police in every. Single. Encounter. Except one. In all my interactions with law enforcement who were not family or childhood friends I met a good cop. Sgt. Mark, if you are still out there on the streets, keep serving and protecting because you are the sort of cop all cop should aspire to be.
heartbreaking to hear, the whole story came together when you mentioned you were native. America's police need reform at every level.
I mean holy shit man, from the bottom of my heart I'm sorry.....Like fuck man I don't know what I need to burn down but I'm gonna find out
There's more stories, but the others at least don't involve the cops busting my camera, and thus primary means of employment, for no reason other than to be assholes. If there is another reason they would have done it that way, without so much as a replacement or even an apology I'd love to hear it. Do police officers encounter a lot of IED's cleverly disguised as cameras and lenses and smashing them on the ground is the only way t0 dispose of them.
Fuck. I'm replying because I want to record that I read this. A reminder that this exists.
So sorry to hear this happened to you. Same here...most bad experiences and no criminal record, worked faithfully since a teen, never committed a crime in my life or even thought of doing so. But being a minority, even as a female...is "suspicious &/or a crime" in itself, unfortunately. Glad we're both alive and well though, bro. Thanks for sharing this.
As a federal law enforcement officer, I love this video. Should be mandatory viewing for every law enforcement officer.
"Most of the do gooders today are doing it out of anger"
OMFG, this statement is ... so unbelievably poignant and true. I'd never thought to phrase it like that.
Beau, you have a way with words, a way to break complex things down into simple terms literally anyone can understand, but without actually compromising the important complexities, and without sounding like you're talking down to people.
You have a gift. Truly.
Please pardon the correction, but I feel when folks say that a person has "a gift" that it distances and fantasizes something as personally unachievable and therefore cannot be learned, which is often not the case.
His abilities are not a gift; they're learned skills.
Most folks can learn these skills but it takes a focused and concentrated effort, and actual real life experience and practice. Dissemination is something that every person who goes to journalism school learns, but Beau has also spent a lot of time and intimate involvement with folks in law enforcement and military, which is why he tailors his voice to speak directly towards that audience; with his authority through lived experience backing his position, and therefore is more likely to be respected and heeded.
Out of all of this what stands out is the emotional context of his sympathy and empathy; that is very simply the essence of his character, and in that way he transcends learned skills into informative art. His specific voice comes from his heart, and THAT is the one thing that cannot be taught.
@@roycefromalaska I'm not fantasizing about the unattainable, I'm complimenting the effective synergy of all those things in his life that now enables him to do what he does, some of which is definitely through earned and lived experiences but no doubt some not-insignificant portion due at least in part to luck.
Just because I don't know every single skill ability experience and talent he posseses, and enumerate them all individually, doesn't mean I'm somehow diminishing any of it by calling it (the 'it' being the synergy of all those things, which also includes a successful youtube channel that he himself didn't ever expect to be anything more than a joke) a gift.
@@Vinny_Havoc Woah, there! Fair enough. My point was simply to say that he is good at what he does because he is educated and he cares, and that other people are capable of doing it in their own way and can be just as effective.
Definitely not meant to be condescending or get into a metaphorical knife-fight over nuance.
@@Vinny_Havoc the problem is that in common use, "gift" does distance the learning and practicing aspect of a skill. Folks like me are trying to get away from using the word "gift" in this context to 1) not alienate people who might want to do what Beau does but feel like they don't have his "gift" because they haven't done it for years and years now, and 2) to avoid putting certain skill sets like public speaking on a pedestal that leaves people thinking the only way to be good at them is to be "gifted."
It's not that you didn't give a compliment or that your heart isn't in the right place. I think many of us think very highly of Beau's skills. It's that the compliment has some negative externalities. It's a slight tweak to phrasing something that helps create a better world.
@@warmachine5835 JFC, I'll never compliment anyone ever again without knowing and reciting every last detail of their life's story that culminated in the possession and expression of a praiseworthy accomplishment or ability.
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Nothing has aged better than this video.
I thought this was a recent video until I checked the date. Wow....some things don’t change.
@@MrFurtle Some things dont change because people dont bother to change them. Dont expect things to improve on their own. Things change when they are made to change. Effort is the key there, not waiting.
@@Royay We as humans belong to two ways of thinking: progressives who want change, and conservatives who oppose change. Thats where the words come. Progressing and conserving. No person is purely both. All progressives want to conserve something and all conservatives want to change something. Nobody is fully against anything, to be blunt, everyone can be bribed. But generally, people do on or other and no one is truly neutral in the matter. The problem comes from this: conservatives see change itself as bad and need extra persuasion to accept change. Progressives are early adopters who similarly value change beyond its sum of worth.
So progressives produce a storm of badly thought and badly explained ideas, which rely on the "cool new thing" factor.
Conservatives feel stressed by the whole idea of new, and oppose it on principle, and seeing a thousand bad ideas, ignore the one truly groundbreaking idea simply because they have learned that all of them are bad.
Its not about whos wrong, because everyone is wrong and nobody is right. Especially in politics, all new ideas are automatically bad. For a while.
Some amount of thinking and quite a large amount of paperwork can however turn shaky ideas solid and those are worth pursuing, and after some study, you can know whether its good idea even if its risky.
To make changes in the world, requires either blood or preparation. I prefer preparation, but many disagree.
People will die because of this, no matter what we do. However, doing precise, well planned ane executed changes, which are well explained to everyone, will cause the least amount of damage.
Thats why this is not the time to stick to guns and ideologies, this is a time to seek cooperation from all people.
This is one of the most important videos of our time, that can redefine what it means to be a cop. How is this not already required viewing for all police officers, ever? This is the most important video of our time.
@@kindlin Also check out the interview with former Baltimore cop and academic, Dr. Michael Wood, who gives an excellent insight into the protests and real grassroots solution. It's called "Signed in Ink Podcast with Guest: Dr. Michael Wood Jr." at his youtube channel. It's a couple hours long, but very interesting.
"Fight, flight, or freeze. You can't kill someone for a biological response." Well said man.
Darryl Belschner yes you can! They do it and get away with it all the time. We the people let it go and move on as though it’s ok. Nothing against you, don’t take this personally as it’s just a general statement about myself, but I’m beginning to just live by the reality I’m faced with and not by the delusions I’m expected to believe in. Police are the bad guy too much anymore in this country. I went to Iraq AND Afghanistan with my hands tied behind my back because of the bad actions of soldiers before me. This isn’t so with “law enforcement officers” here on our home soil. That was war. These “law enforcement officers” nowadays are on home soil with fellow Americans and they seem to be 100% geeked out to take a person’s life with no regard to the aftermath. Their consciences seem to be fully clear and free of the burden of murder, because we the people give them a pass over and over and over and over. If you’re a police officer and you’re scared to step foot out into the community then you’re not right for the job, imo. They know our rights don’t stand up in a court of law against their safety and they seemingly exploit that, because let’s all remember that they “write the report” at the end of the day.
You can't kill someone for a biological response AND STILL BE THE GOOD GUY.
"all the time" please give examples?
badtolz2122 examples in the video dipshit. “Fight, flight or freeze” refers to people’s innate response to a threat or danger. People DO get shot in the back for running all the time...
@@chemdawg9543 not by police... How many examples are in this video? That's far, so far from "all the time".
How many people are shot in the back by police? Give me a number. How many people are shot illegally by police?
As a retired LEO trainer I agree 100% with this video. I taught Positional Asphyxia, Excited Delirium and other techniques and was met with disbelief, people sleeping through the presentation and outright defense of what the police were doing. I wish that you and everyone else advocating for this would get back to LEO training. I can't believe it has taken this many years for me to see this video or that I have been retired LEO for 6 years and they still aren't training and understanding this.
I am so glad to hear from responsible trainers, as opposed to bat-sh** crazy purveyors of 'Kill-ology'. 🙌🤦♂️
So much for qualified immunity. Barely qualified to operate a donut much less a gun. Cops can either police themselves or keep earning that well deserved hatred.
One problem though is that Excited Delerium is entirely made up....seems to only affect suspects and the way it's described as working you officers and any soldier on the battlefield would succumb to Excited Delerium, yet there are zero cases. Funny how it only seems to affect suspects in police custody generally after a use of force, and that it's not recognized by any medical body in the world.
@@DGPHolyHandgrenade Is it?
I want you to go out and find a drill sergeant, and I want you to ask them why boot camp is so harsh. Ask them what would happen if they just grabbed a bunch of fresh green recruits, and had a bunch of cheery, kindly schoolteachers present them with all the facts and fundamentals of basic training, with none of the pressure, stress, or conditioning of normal boot camp, then dumped those kids on a battlefield.
Soldiers need a clean bill of mental health and undergo training to address combat stress. Suspects, on the other hand, are usually untrained, and sometimes suffering from other mental illnesses. The fact that untrained civilians are more likely to lose control under extreme stress than trained officers and soldiers isn't "funny", it's the reason that training exists in the first place.
@@falleithani5411 Excited Delerium is used as a justification of lethal force or excessive force of a suspect already in custody. It's only ever been cited by police trying to CYA on the stand. It's also been thoroughly researched by the medical community writ large....yet the american police force is the only recognized body, and by extension, the american court system that recognizes excited delerium as a thing that happens. Again, the world over, you think the civilians being bombed in Ukraine are suffering excited delerium? Nope, not a single solitary case. How about the civilians getting swarmed by ISIS terrorist cells? Again, the world over, it's not a thing that is recognized. It's made up as a defense for cops to kill people or "tune them up", plain and simple.
I understand why this man won't train the police. He's rational, reasonable, and compassionate. Not too many of these types around.
Puts him at risk. I wouldn't either if I were him.
It's also because Beau is a character, and none of this actually ever happened. He's a "journalist" that tries to convince you of things by telling stories and hypotheticals but rarely ever cites facts.
@@toab and you're just some rando In the comments section
@@exerminator2000 Or I'm another persona of Mr King. Spooky.
@@toab except that he does often cite facts and provide references that can be verified. You on the other hand... some rando making up $h#t in the comments section for attention. Sad really.
The 16 thumbs down probably belong to officers that "write their own reports."
Not only cops.
Wow...115 dislikes...😕
Time, Distance and Cover, and Auditory Exclusion also come into play when an officer fails to investigate the factuality of a call, disregarding contrary circumstantial evidence and treating all explanations of the suspect as lies (if they even hear them at all). Once the officer throws the suspect to the ground and cuffs them, the likelihood of that person surviving the accusations, even in court, are pretty slim. As stated, they write the report. Officers have a moral, if not professional obligation to consider suspects as possibly innocent of any wrongdoing. Way too many lives are damaged through unjust convictions.
@@jefflafferty7472 In New York N.Y. The NYPD has a "quota" policy that you as an officer can be relieved of your job for not writing people up. How may of those officers "morals" kicked in when the were writing up their citizens.
Shannon E yea... but now over 13,000 likes vs 130 something dislikes.
Positional affixation. This seems a little timely now.
Ass fix e.a. shun
Asphyxiation
Odd that it seems you learn more about this from the S&M community than the Police community.
@@TheAnonimanx safety and consent is the name of the game in the BDSM community.
@@TheAnonimanx they both get off using it regardless, if you catch my drift
I am a 74 year old white woman that has gone from smiling at every police man, to finding them despicable - every one of them. My feeling is those that may be human and still have a smidge of ethics will still defend those that are total human waste.
That is why we say A.C.A.B.
It does not matter “race”, “gender”, religion or ethnicity you have. A.C.A.B.
I do not make the rules. I just point them out.
@@Cnichal why is gender in quotes
is this a based gender abolitionist take or weird bigotry
@@hand13932 because gender is a construct. I forgot to put “race” in quotes too. Editing it now.
A story relating to "we write the reports." In the 1970s, one day I was hitchhiking. I play harmonica, so I always carry one. I had hidden a joint (marijuana cigarette) in the harmonica box under the harmonica. The police rolled up on me for no reason; a cop got out of the car, reached in my pocket, took out the box, opened it and found the joint. Just for those of you that don't know, if the police stop you with no "probable cause", they cannot search you, reach in your pocket, open a woman's purse, or anything like that, without asking your permission. I don't even think they can search your car without your permission, unless they can plainly see something suspicious. And then you have the legal right to say "no". So, anyway, they arrested me. All the way down to the police station, I kept saying things like "This is illegal search and seizure" and "Isn't this illegal search and seizure?" I had to spend the night in jail. The next morning I was to be arraigned, but the public defender came to see me and said "You got lucky; the cops TOLD THE TRUTH in their report. You're free to go." I knew intuitively that cops lie, but it was shocking to hear an officer of the court admit it.
@@mylifeisajoke1 They will just say they smelled something. I was on a jury where a kid got busted on marijuana possession. The cop had pulled him over because he had pulled out of a parking garage at night and his wheels were on the street before he turned on his headlights. Cop said he smelled marijuana and searched the car and found it. It was inside a Ziploc bag, inside one of those protein powder plastic containers in a gym bag in the back seat of the car. Sure he smelled it. It has nothing to do with wanting to come up with an excuse for searching the car of a long-haired teenager. However, his probable cause for searching the car held up in court.
@@paulconner4614 If I were on a jury and a police officer testified to something implausible like that, I wouldn't trust a word of the rest of their testimony, or a single item of the evidence they claimed to have found.
@@diablominero We found the kid not guilty. In Texas you have to prove not only the marijuana was there but that he knew it was there and I convinced the other jurors that the prosecution failed to prove he knew about it. (the car he was driving was a friends car so it was highly possible for a gym bag in the bag to have something he wouldn't know about). I was really surprised they put me on the jury because in the jury questioning I had said I believed in legalization of marijuana.
I will take heat for this... but anytime any one uses the "for no reason" i am already suspect.
@@johnhurd6243 Why are you suspect? Are you a dodgy person?
the fact that you've said this cop's colleagues wouldn't take kindly to him suggesting they don't hurt people exposes the whole damn problem.
Cops are snowflakes
And why I assert there are no good cops. Everyone acts like it's a few bad apples. No the good ones like this guy are the anomaly.
@@workingit3055 The saying is "a few bad apples spoil the barrel" so even saying a few bad apples is saying it's all of them
@Free Man Because you don't understand the concept you're talking about.
Firstly: "There are bad civilians... but cops..."
Cops are civilians. Sometimes, in some specific situations, they have more leeway, but they are still essentially civilians. The opposite of a "civilian" is a "soldier", and you absolutely do not want your cops acting as soldiers because soldiers are KILLERS who need a TARGET. If you make your community a target, you're just asking some civilians to go about killing other civilians but doing so without consequence and shielded from consequences by the government.
This is bad.
Secondly, the nature of being a civilian doesn't necessarily demand good behavior. I mean, sure, yeah, it would be great for society if all people were good, but it's expected that in any society, there's going to be social problems, people noncomforming (for good or for ill), and friction around the edges. Even noncomformity isn't necessarily "bad" per se.
In contrast, you smear cops for the bad actions of the minority of them because, by the very nature of being cops, THE ONLY JOB THEY HAVE IS PROTECTING AND SERVING - specifically, by stopping crimes. The mere existence of bad cops who are *ignored* by the quote unquote "good cops" invalidates any cops as good by definition.
Simply put, you cannot have a group with expanded powers and authority, then let any corruption inside of it, because it invalidates the purpose of the group as a whole.
Or in other words, you hold cops who can shoot people up to a higher standard than a rando on the street or a couple children in grade school. You hold them to the highest standards!
the nature of "being a civ
@Free Man I don't know if you live in America but in 2006 the government was shown to be aware that white supremacist groups were trying - and succeeding - to infiltrate law enforcement.
Can we please talk about how pain compliance techniques don't work? When you put people in pain they fight. They resist. Their brain tells them they are in danger and the cop just created a lethal situation.
The problem with pain compliance techniques is training. They do work, if used in short bursts of application. The problem is cops lay on with them and don't ease up. The idea is to apply, and the second the suspect starts to comply you ease off. I've almost never seen this properly applied on the street.
@Ronie Lavon Are you sure it's not, "Comply and Die?" Cause it really seems like they would rather murder someone than be bothered to do their actual jobs.
This.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn Your idiotic theory just condones cop violence IDIOT!
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I spent 45 years as a peace officer. I agree with every word in this post, great job.
Thank you for your service to your community
Thank you for your service... and for focusing on the peace part!
How many bad cops did you arrest in those 45 years?
as soon as you have to call it peace officer, you aren´t one
A cop who retires by choice and old age has proven that he/she is a wise cop, imo. Another clue is that you referred to yourself as a PEACE OFFICER and not simply Law Enforcement. We reveal our character through our words. Thank you for your service, sir.
I served in a law enforcement agency for 30 plus years. I believe that my agency was one of the better trained law enforcement agencies in the country. That being said I truly wish that I had received this particular training from you back in the day. It is the kind of training that every law enforcement officer should have, right up there alongside CIT.
"Most of the do-gooders today... they do good out of anger"
Wow. That's haunting.
This got me too.
Yeah that hit me in the gut.
It's so true. People are looking to take offense at things so they can take out their aggression on someone but they don't have to feel bad because they think the person deserved it. It's a social plague.
Looking at how our society is today, can you blame them? Anyone with any sense of justice would be mad looking at this shit show, but someone still need to take action to fix it. They might not like it but they decided "I'm gonna do something to help because this shit can't go on", then when they do something for others, someone come and tell them they would be arrested for trying to help?
@@natsudragneel-ir7sr That "someone" is all of us.
Everything is a reason to kill, if killing is what you want!
First Last He was quoting Maslow's hammer, but yes, that's the mindset:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
To someone with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
@First Last him and 1000 people before him.
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail, some of these dumbfucks are aching for an opportunity.
I live in a town of about 5000 and we are a white family. I understand how people of color feel. When our son was in high School and started driving we had to have the talk with him. There was a police officer who was a bit crazy hired here. We told our son to stop if he flashed his lights and don't argue with him if he was wrong because of the actions we knew he had taken. Later after he was fired another was hired that was a hard core drug user that got so paranoid they have to fire him. That has been a problem with small town officers, they go from town to town without enough background checking. I am of the opinion that more training is needed and also psychologic testing. We also have police in the school's when I think social workers would be a better fit.
You sir should speak on the Senate floor. This is the exact real world response to "what can police do?" I have ever read. Just knowing the sympathetic nervous system automatically blast the adrenal gland into fight or flight mode is important. So many mistakes by humans, not sides, is science based. Police need this videos message to govern every action before they open the door of that cruiser.
No one on the Senate floor (or the Congress) want to hear this. Republicans like Boepert and Taylor-Greene would laugh at him and shout him down.
All you have to do is see the video with the Amazon Union.
@@notbraindead7298 My very favorite congressperson! Space laser lady!
I was a military cop.
I just refuse to believe most of these cops dont know or havent come across such information as on this video.
They give cops too much leeway with that gun and use of force.
It's not that they are given "leeway" it abuse of policy. You all have each others backs. When I was stationed in Germany (Pinder Baracks) The MP's were in the same building with us (Artillery). I didn't live in the Baracks but had CQ Duties. The MP's drank got drunk smoked their Herb and dared the Charge Of Quarter to say or write anything the logs about it. It is your word against theirs.
Maybe infiltration by white supremacist groups have something to do with it...?
Pete Urbann ARTILLERY! KING OF BATTLE!
War is not good for children and other living things...
I was trained for similar work and we in what would be considered a podunk fischer price training course by most people, went over quite a LOT on proper arrest procedure, proper encounter procedure, deescalation and use of force as well as duty of care and lots of the stuff covered in this video. We were drilled in attitude and mindset and allowing our demeanor to help keep an encounter proceeding well and hopefully resolve it without the need to do any paperwork or more importantly have anyone involved or standing around injured. We were trained in working alone and working with a partner and the way the dynamic changes when that happens. The course was not short nor was it cusrory. There was a lot of book work and practical training in all of this and a lot of discussion and scenario playing . Videos of cops doing it wrong and explantions of why it was wrong and how to do what they did correctly.
This was training just to be a security guard. 20 years ago.
I have to think that if they were training paul blart this well 20 years ago, then today its got to be at least that good. I may very well be wrong about that. However, this was also the experience i had in actually working security which makes me think that the problem may not entirely be the training cops recieve in the academy that ruins them. Some of it is likely before and a lot of it is deffinitely after.
Working security, i saw that other officers and even agencies typically didnt provide really any continuing training for their guards other than post specific instructions for a client. Its a pretty fair statement to make that most guards are not much more than underworked and poorly paid bodies in a special costume that sometimes performs light janitorial duties or tell people not to run in the hall.
However there were lots of instances of misconduct or poor decisions made by officers and they rarely if ever resulted in actual termination of an officer, they were usually simply moved to another posting with a simple dont do that.
And let me tell you there are a lot of guys working security with plans of becomming police that you would never want to be in a position of dog catcher much less police officer.
Lots of those guys do go on to become cops sadly.
But its the years of cops having bad days and reinforcing each others bad decisons and their superiors failure to immediately and severly correct bad behavior that ruins the cops. Its not an eviable position nor is it easy. Perhaps not generally as hard as they go on about but its not a picnic by any means.
But officers train each other to be bad.
Superiors allow subordinates to skate by on infractions or outright illegal activity. Training sets the foundation, and a good foundation is important. However no matter how good your foundation is, if the structure built on it isnt built well it will not perform well. Thats just how it is. If you have a house that has the roof fall in because the boards were joined using too few screws, its not the foundation that caused it. Nor would you address it solely by looking at the foundation. Additionally the foundation many cops may have may not be the foundation you think it is. I know where i live, small towns regularly hire people to become cops without academy training, contingent upon them being accepted into an academy within a certain period of time. I dont remember how long that period is, but that is a foundation thats being laid. and if they are shown bad habits and inculcated into a bad culture and mindset before they even get to where they might recieve good training, then it seems that the chances for them to later utilize those bad methods is much higher.
Theres a lot wrong with the way that we compose our police forces today. It will be a hard problem to solve without a large hard process i fear.
*makes video directly addressing cops*
"Go run, get winded. For most of you guys, most of ya'll, that's running out to the mailbox."
Savagery 100
Sure. And it's kind of tragic. So much of how our society is set up makes it harder to be healthy. This is even more true with shift workers, which would be a lot of cops...
There is more training to cut hair than enforce laws.... there is 8yrs of school to defend the law, 6 months training to carry a gun and enforce it.... thats the problem right there.
Every police officer in this country NEEDS to see this video.
Beau, my name is Chuck Smith. I am former Marine and I'm retiring from a 22 year law enforcement career at the end of this month. I spent the last several years as a defensive tactics and firearms instructor for both my agency as a whole and the Special Operations community specifically. I could not agree with you more and I have run afoul with the VAST majority of the people I work with because of this. Please contact me when possible. I have some ideas on how to START chipping away at this, but I need a platform. Maybe we could help each other and in doing so, our fellow citizens.
Chuck, & Beau, PLEASE do so!
Chuck Smith semper Fi devil
you are most likely part of the problem, chuck
@@babyfactory587 wow aren't you a rude little fella? This guy is at least trying to do something right and you just attack him personally. Who is truly part of problem here?
Please get your story out there. Make youtube videos, post on reddit. There is a need for police reform in this country and it is going need to be voiced by LE to be heard.
Thank you brother. I’m a retired Lt and former general and high liability trainer/instructor. You’re accurate in all of this. I have been screaming this for years to anyone that will listen but they don’t want to hear it. I was lucky enough to be a cop prior to and after 9/11. We militarized our law enforcement and you know cops... paint it black, call it tactical and they all buy into it. Excellent message👍🏻
Sometimes it's hard to go back and watch these older videos. I was just listening and realized that this video was made before the Floyd murder. It's amazing how cops never seem to learn.
Beau, I want to Thank You personally for making this video, and the 2 videos about what it's like to be black & how to start up a black gun club. I believe in my heart your advice comes not only from experience & training, but also from a place of pure empathy, sympathy and from your own heart as well. You care, which is sadly a rarety these dark days. I can see it in your body language, facial expressions, hear it in your voice, and feel it in your words, stern yet caring. You truly are one in a billion, which means, there are only 6 more like you. THANK YOU BEAU !
"Most of the do gooders today, are doing it out of anger"
Great Quote....
"In a cruel society, being kind is a revolutionary act" - not sure where I read that one...
That's cuz the do gooders have a sense of justice.
I like that quote. I want to be a revolutionary. 🤗
that hit so hard (so true) and is also a little terrifying. good but scary.
It's a paraphrasing of "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" which, somewhat ironically, has been continually misattributed to George Orwell for about 40 years.
I don’t want to be a revolutionary. I want the good I do to be ordinary because I want the society I live in to be good
"You're wrong, we do need militarized training, just not the kind we're getting. I want to know what you know so that I don't hurt anybody." That's an officer I want to have a conversation with. He seems to have a desire for discipline.
@Ronie Lavon
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." Adama, BSG
@@Crlarl love it.
Beau sent me here for an assignment to watch this video on April 17, 2021 and let's just say that the more things stay the same the more they stay the same. This video is just as relavent today as it was when this was first released. It has to change- we deserve better. It's time.
AMEN to that.
Still relevant in April of 2023
i dont know if You (Beau) or the officer who asked you will ever see this but i felt it needed to be said anyway. I am someone who has several mental issues. One of the biggest is that i have a hard time dealing with loud noises and lots of noises at once. As such i dont leave my home much. What this does mean is that if i were to ever be in a situation were a officer was telling me to do something i more then likely wouldnt be able to do them. The fact that even one officer is aware enough to realize he needs more training to keep us both safe makes me hopeful that more officers will realize and i wont ever have to be one of those names that shows up and the news because i "Wasnt following directions". Thanks for posting the video.
...get a certified document typed up, from a qualified Doctor, from a therapist, or from a qualified person in the health profession that is knowledgeable of your conditions. Type up a letter Giving Notice of your Health condition, and attach those reports from your health professionals, make multiple copies. The Cover Letter is a Declaration, providing Notice to anyone who reads your documents, of your Condition. Once you get YOUR document notarized, make several copies, submitted the Notarized one to the County Records. You might need at least 3 Notarized documents.
Go down to the Courthouse, and submit one of the Notarized documents to the County Clerk (they might have a different name in your State), they are the Official Records keepers in most Counties in the US. Get it an Official stamp on all your copies, the Master and the one being Submitted. Make Several copes of the Your document that is stamped by the County Clerk, for Your Records.
Afterwards, take several copies of the Stamped document, mail all of them Certified Return receipt to the local Police Department, to the City Hall, to the attention of the City Secretary (or Records Keeper), another for the City Manager, and the Elected Manager. You will be putting them on Notice.
Sit back and see what happens. Document Everything, record everything, make sure that All transactions are IN Writing. Because they Will LIE on the phone.
They Can NOT get around this. Oh and also ask for Reasonable Accommodations under the Americans with Disability Act, in your cover letter. They have to Obey, and they are NOT excluded from following Federal Law.
Contact me later, if you get any results. Thanks ✌️ This is not a joke, I thinking of doing this in my City, Tyler Texas. Too many Yahoos with guns and badges here, who are poorly trained. I fear them more than I fear petty criminals, and I used to coordinate Off-duty Police officers doing Private Security on Pipeline projects in Texas, in Oklahoma, in Missouri, from the office I used to work in in Tyler. --- Alfredo
@@Texaca have you seen the character and conduct of officers decline over the years? Was it much better, say, 30 years ago?
@@Texaca This only helps after some kind of resolution is reached. If that resolution was a fatal shooting....
@@Texaca I hope this worked for you. The problem is those split seconds where an over-adrenalized law enforcement officer is deciding when (not if) to draw their gun and shoot.
I'm glad the cops in Finland get years of training in conflict resolution, as well as use of force, before they get to wear a badge.
Amerikkka is the only country that allows people to become cops with only months of training.
@@joechilds9448
Try six weeks. 🙄 It's absolutely horrendous that their training is so short! 😳
@@joechilds9448 You'd be wrong in that. UK police only get half a year of training. Of course, the training they do get is very, very different from that of US police.
@Zach Moore True. Of course, for most, it also includes military training. A natural career path starts with MP training, but since you can choose and have to "do your time" anyway, you can choose something more fun like commando training.
For most this means becoming more mature and serious in the process, and the training is absorbed much better from day one.
Also, discipline tends to be better too.
@@jochentram9301 I have never heard bad things of the UK police. Ive visited once, never talked to one, but the ones I saw guarding the House of Commons looked alert and calm. Thats already a very long way of one who would accidentally choke someone.
Don't show this to your cop-friends. Show this to your city council, state legislators and US Congress! Every questionable police shooting, flood this video to the prosecutors office and the local news!
They won't give 2 craps..... like obumer said while he thought his mic was off on an interview " we the useless eaters are'nt worth anything "....
Dan Cooper 💯💯💯
J Calhoun I’d doubt it, because if you need to show off your intelligence, you convince me you don’t have any
"questionable shooting"? So... Like a few a year?
@@badtolz2122 ??
I am a former CERT officer with a very prominent southern Dept. of Corrections. As part of my job I served risk warrants under the authority of another affiliated state agency there. We were taught these things 20 years ago in almost that order. I want to say it slowly and clearly for the public... I was a CO not a police officer... I WAS GIVEN THIS TRAINING OVER 20 YEARS AGO. Short story is this is your best video yet without question. Nicely done. I'm showing it some of my friends that are in police academies. Thank you for your work, I disagree with you often but that's good too and it helps.
I sincerely believe that most police officers suffer from a hero complex. I know, for a fact, that police officers have a disfunction understanding of authority and the role it needs to play in a democratic society that depends on the civic empowerment of it’s citizenry. On top of these two, I consider the number one problem in policing today to be an ‘Us vs. Them’ belief system. What makes this the number one problem is that this outlook has not only infected police departments but a significant portion of our citizenry, as well. In my opinion, the overwhelming majority of police officers don’t see themselves as serving a community but rather as soldiers charged with marking the bad guys. Worse is that too many Americans support and share this outlook. Here’s what I mean. I’m a retired teacher who taught 26 years in the inner city of Los Angeles. I can’t tell you the number of times, over the years, that I’ve heard people express thanks that I and others were teachers. It always seemed to be expressed in a way that said, ‘I’m glad that I don’t have to do it’. I believe too many Americans feel even more so about policing. People are so afraid of the “bad guys” that they do not question police. And for too long people have been willing to turn a blind eye to police abuse. However, when unconstitutional policing is allowed to continue without legal accountability, government loses its moral authority. That is just asking for big trouble.
...lack of Accountability, lack of Responsibility, and Access to the Law Enforcement Apparatus, is the biggest problem in this Country, when it comes to Law Enforcement. It's also a Politicians Crutch, and the Scapegoat when SHTF! It's the Slippery Slope to anarchy, when a segment of Our government is Unaccountable, reckless, and Operates with IMPUNITY!
The George Floyd incident, the arrest and charges against those Officers that participated in his destruction, and death, will not fix anything in Law Enforcement. The Technocrats who Manipulate public opinion, data, the Internet, polls, information, and social media platforms don't want things to change.
Whenever I see interactions between civilians and cops, or experience them, I think of Cartman screaming desperatly "respect my AUTHORITAYYYYY".
And that even applies to my own experience. I live in germany and we have way less of the insane variant of police-interactions. Im white and a social worker who looks more like an accountant. Even still: Every time police is involved, those guys have the underlying aura of: "you wanna fuck with me, bro?"
And Im friends with cops...which makes it even more confusing.
For context: I live in Frankfurt. 700k inhabitants, less than 10 murders a year. And we are called the crime-capital of germany.
There is an old leftist slogan: Gib mir eine Uniform..Ich bin nichts, ich kann nichts.
Translation: Give me a uniform...I am nothing, I am capable of nothing.
“Go run, get winded. For most of you guys that’s running out to the mailbox” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wow, most of you guys are so rich! I cant afford a front yard that big!
@@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 neither do I, but you got to work for a bad condition.
Nahh. My mailbox is about three meters away from the door. But if I run back as well...
@@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 Southerners in the more rural neighborhoods typically have a big front yard. It doesn't really have to do with price. I grew up poor, but our small house was on 1 acre.
@@americanbookdragon Ive seen your home, Forrest, but if you dont get winded, its not big enough.
;-)
Your absolutely right , as a former l.e.o. I tried to promote training and accountability at our sheriff's office , thinking i worked in a place of honor and Integrity, they seen me out the door and black balled me , civil right violations were a daily operation that everyone turned their head to , I was told you got to go along and get along , turned out i was working in a department of organized crime ,
Ignoring the more ideological point of the police's job being more to protect the property of the wealthy than the lives of the working class, the other reason the expression "all cops are bastards" exists is largely due to this - even in the least corrupt departments, being a good cop is damn near impossible because of the culture of policing. When the emphasis is on getting along with your fellow officers, even when they're a disgrace to the uniform, being a good cop can only get you fired or killed.
you need to find other officers who experienced the same thing and speak out to the media, c-span at least
Sounds like my work place
Wow, and the Sheriff's are the Constitutional Officers on the scene. That have a Constitutional duty to Follow the law...Most of the Follow codes, there are over 90million statues and codes...No one knows them all.
Masta Flex your grammar is pretty bad for cop
A True American 💯 Your teachings can save lives if only they would listen.
As a retired police officer I know this stupid ideology among officers. It’s not as bad, but it is still there. I spent the last 23 years of my career in forensics and I used to tell rookie officers that you cannot bring a lie into court. It may take awhile but the truth always comes out. I was trained old school. No pepper spray, no tasers and I carried an old 38 revolver. It takes 4 years of combined police college and working with a training officer before you become a first class Constable and we were constantly told that our best weapon was our mouth. We learned to talk first. De-escalate. Calm things down. Drawing your weapon was a ‘last resort’. Miss those days. Great video, Beau. 👍😎🇨🇦🏹
tamir rice was shot within 11 seconds of cops showing up. 11 seconds for an 11 year old with a toy gun
2 seconds rewatch the video with a timer.
I did that when the full video was released(used a timer). Just under 2 seconds. Horrifying that people still defend that cop and the prosecutors murdering a pre-teen.
I remember. He didn't even stop the car. He jumped out and shot while it was still rolling.
@@ernststravoblofeld Yeah. He was just so ready to pretend he was a tv cop badass. The entire system needs a redesign from bottom up and it's sadly not happening in my lifetime.
Is the child killer still a cop ?
A good example of "WE WRITE THE REPORTS" can be found in the original 4 page incident report from the thugs that shot Breonna Taylor in Louisville Ky.The 4 page report is almost blank and states she had no injuries. This was said in spite of the fact she was shot 8 times
In all seriousness, im surprised they didnt say her boyfriend shot her. Since they write the reports and all.
There's way more to that sorry than what you've heard on Vox and WaPo.
Badtolz yeah but the more you hear the worse the cops look. She was asleep. There was no drugs. It was the wrong house. It could have been anyone
@@badtolz2122 yeah, the cops are much more fucked up than the media could ever show!! Good point!
She had no injuries because you have to be alive to be injured doesn't count since they straight up murdered her
"Get winded. For most of y'all, that's running to the mailbox." Somebody get the fire extinguisher, damn.
I felt that. I get winded climbing my house stairs sometimes 😔
Thanks for saying "most of the good doer's today, are doing it out of anger"
Everyone that tries to thank me with encouragement misses that I'm enraged at the situation. Which is why I have too.
wow. hits home my friend. about 50 years ago, I was working out at a gym in a large city. I was 16, and was kind of the gym mascot. the day hours were filled with off duty cops. they got use to me being there. one day a cop came in and told another cop that he shot and killed this guy who everyone knew because he had a rap sheet longer than his..... leg. the other cop commented that this guy was a professional bugler, and never got cited for possession of a side arm. the other cop just said, "well, I was getting tired of bringing him in, and just shot him, then palmed my back-up 38 on him". I then realized that I was the only person in the gym that wasn't a cop, and I just heard this guy confess to 1st degree murder. I quietly got off the bench machine, walked to the showers, grabbed my shit and never came back....... got lucky on that one.
That is straight up psychopathic behavior.
Glad you survived, many share your story and aren't as lucky because they can't hide their shock.
Feck me, dude. Good decision.
Wow. That is absolutely terrifying to read. My heart and stomach met at my feet. So glad you lived!
As a former sergeant in the Army, and a current police officer, THANK YOU! I personally can't stand the "us vs them" that is taught in our training in law enforcement. Not all of us are like that, some of us still believe in "protect and serve" and were we are public servants, NOT moral enforcers.
Thank you Beau. (and no, the thin blue line is scary, and having a "liberal mind" in a red state (Indiana) leads to dead in career...)
Yes! Thank you! ❤
Weed out the bad ...
@mark daniels - If only. The judge rarely seems to go against the cop, and when they do there never seem to be consequences. Us vs them mentality is a toxic and cancerous mentality, and only serves to prove the people saying "All Cops Are Bastards" right. Try to prove them wrong for once.
So how did it become this way? I've known a few officers in my life. My grandfather was even a highway patrolman at one time. Some officers put off this vibe that they're just better people. No fellas, that's just not how it works. Everyone has a role to play to keep society working and it's often one that they choose. Serve admirably or don't serve at all.
The supreme court has ruled than no police MUST protect and serve ANYONE
WASHINGTON, June 27 - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court-issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation.Jun 28, 2005
www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html
I don’t think there’s a relevant subject on earth that Beau couldn’t school just about everyone on.
THANK YOU SO MUCH Beau for making the exit from the world of death and force to the world of kindness and inclusion.
It’s obvious you’re a much happier man because of it- and you’re making the world a much better place. 👍🏿❤️❤️
"Most Do-Gooders nowadays are doing it out of anger."
Sent shivers down my spine how accurate that is.
It's incredible how cops only want military training until accountability comes into play
The military has Military Police. Maybe it's time to have Police Police?
@@KingBobXVI Sure.. but they can't be part of it. ;)
Because they fantasize about being badass super soldiers. Why do you think local law enforcement need the level of militarization they've gotten post-9/11? To combat the terrorists who would probably hijack a whole airplane that they can't do shit about?
@@SlimAndSlamsLoveJuice IA departments are usually umbrella'd under the department they're a part of or otherwise have strong ties to them because they're both employed by the same people, the local government. All IA have a flawed foundation so long as they continue to not have federal level agency.
And what's that going to achieve a good section attack 🤣
They just need to be left to do there jobs.
I'm a Black Man in America. More people should see this video. Thank you!
I am also a black man living in America, I just shared it to my facebook page so that others can see it and hopefully share it to the people they know.
@Eliza Grogan I'm Irish and thankfully our police aren't armed, so no one is getting 6 warning shots in the chest, no matter their race.
@Eliza Grogan I live here and don't want to visit here. I grew up watching cop shows like dragnet and adam-12. I grew up thinking cops were good, my dad was a fireman so I met a lot of cops. They weren't bad people back then. Like I said I learned cops were good. Then I grew up.
That's easy just share it
Mike. I have BEGGED people to watch this video. I used to work in law enforcement (when I was young..a long long time ago) I am APPALLED, ASHAMED AND DISGUSTED by what I see in law enforcement. My heart goes out to you, sir. I cannot know what you go through on a daily basis...I can TRY to imagine, but I'm sure even my worst imaginations aren't accurate. I have BEGGED those that I know in law enforcement to watch this. I don't really associate with very many Leo's, most of the guys and gals I worked with are retired. I STILL beg EVERYONE I know to watch this. It is so educational for all of us. There must be reform NOW. Diverting funds from many areas of law enforcement and investing it in areas of the community where it will actually do some good (job opportunities, education, housing, assistance for folks on the edges etc. Beau is a man of wisdom. When he speaks...I LISTEN.
I had to deal with TSA while my young teenage child was experiencing auditory exclusion. My child was very anxious and wasn't able to process language unless it was my voice. The officer repeatedly told me to be silent and let them handle the situation, instructing him to raise his hands in the scanner. I continued until my child complied. After my child was through the scanner and out of earshot, I explained the situation. The officer then thanked me for my help. Why was it a problem that I was giving the same instructions he had been in the first place? The airport anxiety was because it was a new experience on a trip to a stressful event. The auditory exclusion lasted the entire weekend. Until this video, I didn't have a name for it and wasn't aware of the many situations that may cause it. My child was fortunate that I was the adult on the trip because: 1) I could identify the nature of the problem, and 2) I am assertive enough to advocate for my child. My child looked old and capable enough that TSA might easily have taken unneeded aggressive action without my intervention.
It is experiencing events like this that terrify me. What happens when my child is old enough to drive and is pulled over for something minor but then becomes anxious and experiences auditory exclusion? As a less than exemplary driver myself (I do try...), I have been pulled over with my child in the car. The only thing I know to do is model that the situation is not "frightening" in hopes that my child, in a similar situation, won't be overwhelmed by anxiety. I can only hope.
I sent this to two career LEO’s that are now a special division of State Troopers.
I told them that you, Beau, taught me things about their careers that I never thought of.
I just wanted them to give me their opinions.
Thanks Beau. We appreciate you.
Auditory exclusion is partly responsible for the death of Jemel Roberson a few weeks ago. Bystanders at the bar were screaming “he’s security!” But the cop didn’t hear that, he just shot-about 4sec after he yelled his command. There’s that time and distance problem too.
Great point. Also, "bystanders (plural) were screaming." This speaks to Beau's point that only one officer on the scene should be giving commands to a suspect. If multiple people were screaming to the police, perhaps the cops simply could not hear clearly what was being said. Even if they were all saying the same thing, out of sync it becomes a cacophony. Not defending the cops' actions, but it seems to be related to what was said here.
It's also a racism problem. Had Jemel been a white man, that cop wouldn't have shot that fast.
@@Serai3 It's literally impossible to know that. There definitely is a racism problem in the police force but what good does it do to blame it on racism every single time the victim isn't white? What do you say to the fact that more white people are murdered by cops?
@@part-timepartytime9621 that there are more whites than blacks in the US?
That said, it is true that it is not be racism every time. We tend to contrast innocent lack men with white mass shooters, the first get killed, the others often are arrested successfully. but apprehending a mass shooter is exactly the type of situation where the police realizes they have to be tactical, while a simple tense situation that is not as spectacular can stress the officer without inciting them to be careful in assessing the situation.
@@miketuttlesmusic Right, which is where the time and distance come in. If they had taken longer to observe the situation to take in more information and see that he wasn't the shooter then it wouldn't have happened.
I'm a cop. Two different departments. Nearly 30 years total. Thank you for this video.
From your point of view, is change coming? Or is everyone just looking for a way to put this in the past and act like it didn't happen?
David Carrasco - I’m curious to what your answer to @Lan Mandragoran is.......care to answer?
@@lanmandragoran8337 I believe change is happening....for some. Others ..... people placed in charge of a department (s) by those who empower them are stuck either in the past or not wanting to deal in the present nor progress into the future. Why I left the 1st department.....I won't mention the names of the departments I work(ed) for. Both have started out very well.... except one is about to be defunct while the other one (I'm presently serving) has continued to think outside the box and has been inclusive of the communities it serves while at the same time been supported by them as well.. We train frequently in all aspects of not just law enforcement but deal with crime prevention. Whether by an organized meeting to catching each other for a lunch and discussing what's happening in the neighborhood to just talking about family. It's not always "incense, peppermint & strawberry swirls" but we get the job done. On and off duty. The worse that has happened was yes, our department paid in blood in the protection of the Community we've been sworn to protect....and the people we proudly serve came out in full force to support us. I apologise if a bit winded. But I still believe in my profession.... I still believe that we are and have been making positive changes That being said my heart breaks ... and I mean that.....when ever an officer has violated that oath, trust with their actions it does take a toll. I sometimes ask what the hell constitutes for training. What the hell "passes" for integrity. What then he'll is that person having a badge AND A GUN !!!! I can go on...but then I'd have to have mine own CZcams channel... B of the 5th column is the type of trainer, instructor that departments across the country NEED !!!
@@KrystalOcean I hope I've answered your question. Respectfully submitted.
David Carrasco - thank you so much for responding! It gives me hope to read your response that things can get better. I worry that now everyone’s eyes are open and see what has been happening unjustly for so long to black and brown people that as time passes this awakening will be forgotten and just get swept under the rug again and go back to “normal”. And it would be a damned shame if that happened in my opinion. For the first time in my life I have real hope that we can evolve as a society, make up for our past grievances and move on, united. I never thought it would happen in my lifetime. Racism has been entrenched in our society from day one and it is sad and disheartening that it has taken this long and so much spilled blood for it to be addressed.
LEOs definitely have difficult jobs, there is a lot expected of them and we need good officers that actually value human lives, honor the beauty of diversity, and care about the neighborhood and the citizens they are sworn to serve and protect, like you and the from what you’ve said, the department you currently work in. (Do you mind if I ask what state you live in?) All of this ugliness has forced every single one of us to look in the mirror and really take stock in how other people are treated (I am meaning normal people, this does not include the fanatical right wing racists that have shown their true ideologies thanks to tRump, I am honestly afraid they may be beyond help at this point). And it is imperative that these fanatical racists chose other jobs than LE. They have no business having a badge and a gun when they have clear disregard for some people. Trust needs to be rebuilt between LE and citizens so booting blatant racists off the force, requiring all LEOs to wear body cameras that cannot be turned off and getting rid of qualified immunity will go a long way in healing the relationship. It actually really boggles my mind that so many men, women and children have outright been murdered by an officer(s) and not only did they get to keep their pension, they didn’t even get fired and are not in jail. It’s like they’ve been operating above the law with absolutely no consequence at all. Even with criminals it’s 3 strikes and you’re out, it should be equally the same for everyone across the board. And that above all needs to change the most. Like Chauvin, watching that video he absolutely knew what he was doing and I could see the nonchalance in his face, he didn’t have a care in the world because he never thought he’d actually be held accountable for his actions. Which begs the question....how many more of him are there really? They want to talk about a few bad apples, but they never finish the adage....they spoil the whole bunch. And how many bad apples does it take to realize that the rot is actually coming from the roots? I think a lot of us see that now. I hope that once we all make it through this adjustment period that it will inspire a whole new generation of officers that value life, that are good, have integrity and honor, that keep each other in check without fear of being branded a goody two shoes or even fired because of it. How much more productive would it be if the bad ones were easily spotted, picked and tossed? Put on a list so they can’t just move to another town or state and get rehired, only to repeat the cycle, infecting every department they work in. I truly believe that the interactions between LEOs and citizens would be so much more harmonious. I’m not naive, a criminal is a criminal and should be treated as such regardless of race or sex. I’m meaning more the regular day to day interactions that get unnecessarily blown out of proportion due to biases.
I am grateful for the way I was raised and the experiences I’ve had first hand with racism, even as a white person. It taught me to be accepting of everyone, to let their behaviors and actions dictate my opinion of them and not their skin color, sexual orientation, religion or culture. Because the truth of the matter is that we all have beating hearts and we all bleed red, we are all simply humans and deserve to be treated equally. And thank god for good people like you and Beau of the Fifth Column, the change is only going to happen if we’re honest with ourselves and each other. And are willing to keep educating each other as we navigate this crazy thing called life. Hahaha well now that I’ve written a damned novel, thanks again! I really do wish you a good night and a safe and happy 4th ❤️🤍💙
Hi Bo, I am Canadian and I am not in law inforcement or anything. I really care for you guys down there but it is really difficult to follow from here. Bo you help me understand what is happening in your country, you are patient and you explain really well, thanks for these talks :)
Didn't have to say please subscribe or hit the notification bell for me to do it. As soon as he started talking, I knew I was listening to a righteous man. Detailed yet simple break down of things. GOOD CHARACTER, GOOD PERSON, GOOD JOB. Look forward to more videos. Thanks
"Most of the do-gooders today... they're doing it out of anger."
I'm an Iraq veteran myself, everything you say rings true. Really appreciate your measured approach to topics like these
I not only appreciate the measured approach, I also love the 'no bullshit' attitude. Quite refreshing these days.
"You can't kill somebody b/c they succumb to a biological response." Just keeps dropping knowledge!
You are the most eloquent person Beau. There's a lot of grateful people listening. I wish I had kids so I could have them listening too...
This reminds me of a video I watched when multiple cops are yelling at a man. One is saying to do one thing and the other cop is yelling another. They all gunned him down. He was probably confused as fuck. He was still at least 10 feet away from the cops. Not a threat. But they said he wasn't complying...smh...its disgusting. And its not something thats gonna change anytime soon.
Was it Daniel Shafer ( not sure if its correct spelling) case?
"Excessive force ensues" would be a more honest police slogan than "protect and serve".
The ones who proudly "write the reports" should have "to murder and maim" so that people can react appropriately.
@Jacob Chacko yep, I heard about that. Like wtf.
I've always wondered why they beat the hell out of runners. Beau is right about the fight/flight/freeze reaction...but what do you do if runners fight you back? Way too much cortisol and adrenalin and lord knows what else.
@Jacob Chacko right, Comedian Robin Williams talked about this, "stop! Or, I'll have to say stop again!" I doubt it's that simple but it's funny. Or was that Monty Python?
@@CHill-lg6mj oh in my country (the UK) they'll still run after you, try to stop you, but maybe with a rugby tackle, a baton, or pepper spray. They're not even allowed tasers as standard equipment, but it doesn't stop them.
No kidding about auditory exclusion!
I was stopped and frisked once in my life, as a grad student in my 20s, completely out of the blue. I’m walking down a quiet street in the middle of the day. Next thing I know, two beat-up clunkers stop with squealing breaks, and 8 “homeless-looking” guys jump out. One of them looks a lot like Beau 🔼 up there. 😁 Before I know what’s going on, he’s pointing a BIG silver revolver at me. Not at my face, just a bit lower. I can see bullets in the chambers, which I find fascinating.
And at that point I start hearing these curious sounds that sound just like the adults’ “wa-wa-wa” voices on Peanuts. I’m not worried that I don’t understand, I’m not scared by the gun, I’m just mesmerized by the situation. I’m not moving a muscle. Not because I would want to but can’t, but because thinking about what to do or not to do next just doesn’t occur to me. I’m just an observer.
By the time I once again understand human speech, they’ve already surrounded me, rifled through the backpack I’m still wearing, and thrown its contents on the sidewalk. I must have said something, because the lead guy with the revolver barks at me that all he wants to hear out of me is “Yes, sir” or “No, sir” and before I can stop myself, I hear myself asking which law requires me to address him as “sir.” But they’ve already lost interest in me, apparently satisfied they’ve got the wrong guy, and they’re getting back to their cars. And only THEN do I notice that at least some of them have police shields clipped to their belts. So there’s a bit of tunnel vision for you as well.
And that’s when the shaking starts that won’t stop for the next half hour.
Well that is just a horrifying situation. I'm glad you made it out with your life.
@@o0Avalon0o fine use of our tax dollars, harassing random dudes and dumping the contents of their backpacks. Makes me feel so safe...
One does wonder, what they thought you had in the backpack.
I hate to have to be the one to have to point this out to you, but
a handgun of the caliber that was pointing at your nose automatically
elevates the rank of the SOB pointing it.
Personally, I thought it amazing you had enough wit to be a smartass at all.
Now I do not know you, but I am going to guess you are a young white guy.
If I am wrong you must be very brave for I have seen with my eyes what happens to
People of certain extractions who lead with their mouth. It is not very pretty. Sorry.
That's a very in-depth and fascinating description of a freeze response. I'm sorry you went through that, but thank you for the detailed account of your thought process during the event. The mind is a curious thing, and we rarely have people who are self-aware enough, and who have the control of language, to communicate its oddities to other people.
I’m sorry that happened to you.
Almost two years later and still one of the best put and presented commentaries on law enforcement, law breakers, and victims.
This man could run for president and I would vote for him-and I don't say that lightly.
This cat is smart! Pay attention! I’m a volunteer firefighter and the most valuable thing I have learned when arriving to an emergency is to do a scene survey/360 of the situation. This forces you to slow down and collect information before you react. This keeps you safe as well as your crew. That 1 extra minute to take everything in can be the difference between life and death.
Thanks for the video.
Thank you too!
@Rooster Cogburn No Rooster. No. Most will prefer Luke live another day to save another life. Btw: He made NO mention of any "victims of fire burn".
@Rooster Cogburn it takes a professional maybe 2 minutes to assess a situation. To see where the most dangerous situation is and what need to be done. Those 2 minutes may actually save more lives than running head long into a burning building and losing your life and the life of your crew.
@Rooster Cogburn I was an EMT/FF for years before cancer ended my career. I assure you we are trained to do exactly what he said. We assess scene at all times, on and off the job it's that ingrained in us. It's done as we are running to you, pulling up to a scene, while were off duty sitting at home, even years after the job. We are alert to what is happening around us at all times.
Here's a scene for you to think over...
Woman calls that her dad is having a heart attack. We pull up grab our med bags, we see the woman, her dad on the floor and there's a third man holding the woman who called us. She's frantic, of course, her dad is having a heart attack. but instead of going inside, we got back in the ambulance, call for police assistance, & wait before entering.
Why did we do that?
Scene assessment told us there was danger. There was broken glass on the ground, a tear in the womans shirt she was failing to hide, and we noticed blood on the mans had who was holding the woman. We noticed that from the ambulance before we even hit the front steps. The woman's demeanor was also indicating something else was wrong because she wasn't welcoming the man holding her. What actually happened was the man had got into a fight with his gf. It became physical and her dad tried to stop him & in the fight he started having a heart attack. The man had meth in his system , a history of violence and owned multiple guns.
Scene assessment saves lives. More people should learn this skill.
the 9/11 commission found not doing this lead to those HUNDREDS of added NYFD deaths with everyone running in without assessing the towers, the ARC CPR classes will tell you the 3Cs Check Call Care.
If you're in Minneapolis this video should be shared with everyone you know.
RIP George Floyd.
more Beau to train people, less stupid killing...
@Laika24102007 Have a good day!
@Laika24102007 Now I have to watch 3 cat videos to get rid of your cancer.
@Laika24102007 explain us how a knee on a neck can help to fight "breathing issues". or is this a "too nasty" question for a Trump Boy/Girl?
Beau explained well the biological reactions of a human body.that wasnt "delirium" ,was "panic".
@Laika24102007 im' not a boy.im not american but my granny was bore in NY, and u are the "Perfect Trumper".so if u cant say or write or think something useful or costructive.SHUT.UP.YOUR.FUCKING. MOUTH/HAND/"MIND". did u understand suprematist fart?
I've been watching your vlogs on and off for some time, and I have mostly appreciated what you have to say. But, with this vlog you just bumped way up in my opinion. I have had a few 'meetings' with my local law enforcement, and they were all very frightening. I'm an old (81) man, and not threatening in any way, but the cops were afraid of me. When I explained where to look for the woman (a neighbor) who had called 911, threatening suicide, one officer drew his gun. After pushing me aside, and spending 45 minutes searching my house, they went to the address I had given them (five doors down the street), and found the woman, alive. One officer came by later and told me they had found her, but never apologized for their foolishness . As far as they were concerned, I was a criminal. Anyone who goes about living in fear should never be allowed to carry a weapon. To paraphrase you: 'fear makes you foolish'. And foolish can get you killed.
Or others killed 😞
I'm just astounded at how you were treated (I'm suspecting it was the skin tone thing, or am I mistaken?) 🤦♂️
This guy seems like a genuinely decent human being
"I never taught another class of law enforcement again."
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Right.... Because people aren't arguing they need more training...?
@@badtolz2122 they need to be disarmed, not trained how to harm people more efficiently. Did you even watch the video?
@@mortarriding3913 disarmed? Disarm the police? Tell me how that makes sense.... Please.
@@badtolz2122 police in NZ do not carry firearms by default. It is ranked as one of the safest, and most free societies in the world. Far better than America.
@@mortarriding3913 the criminals won't disarm. How do you solve that?
Beau I just wanted to add a quick comment to say that I absolutely love your work and what you're doing
His name is Justin.
HENCEFORTH! He shall be known as the Wise Man. SO lET BE WRITTEN....!!!
Thank you Bo, for always keeping it real as well as educating us all.
Tameer Rice broke my heart. Especially, the fact that no one in power did anything.
"The most dangerous people on the planet are true believers."
pattywatty Well they’re not actually dangerous most of the time, they’re just assumed to be
Just Another Animation Channel there is a difference between ‘I assume that black man is dangerous’ and ‘Black men are generally more dangerous’
@@pattywatty5266
@@pattywatty5266 WOW! We know you are a racist now don't we.
@@pattywatty5266 Sadly, this is the easiest way to see who is intelligent.
Here's a hint: not you.
Beau, I'm an x-cop and everything you said was spot on. The only thing I can add is to tell your friend to study civil and Constitution rights it will help keep his oath.
So what kind of classes did Beau teach? Weapons and tactics? Hand to hand? Conflict resolution?
I wish more cops thought like you. Unfortunately, even the "good" cops stay silent about their power abusing peers, which taints the whole system.
Bo, I met that guy, he was in my uber. He said he was cooking at the park for the homeless without a permit. Really nice guy. He told me that story, man that cop was really lucky!
Just those two examples made me SO angry!!!!! These should not be something we see on a regular basis.
HOLY CRAP!!! LOUDER FOR THE FOLKS THAT WERE ON THEIR PHONES!!!
"When you encounter someone who is ideologically motivated and they are committing a crime that has no victim, KEEP ROLLING."
I clapped alone in my lab at 7am, man.
One day some white lady is gonna roll up on an armed black veteran that’s trying to do some good and her day will take a turn for the worst.
@@shaunhurst2595 dude let's hope not. Let's hope the black dudes keep being the cooler heads in the encounters with weaponized winky white women who insist on calling the police when they aren't being affected by something.
Where I come from training of a police officer takes four years, you cannot hurt ANYONE is the mantra. In the police he Netherlands does carry weapons but rarely use them.
This is pretty much the mantra from MOST police forces. I wish the Americans would look at the training in the UK, Australia, New Zealand (the only reason I'm not saying the Netherlands and other European countries is the language issue), learn what they do - even their country region police - Australia has police officers who are FAR more isolated than an officer in the US could ever be.... Not saying there aren't problems but seriously the rate of police shootings in the US is outrageous.
A while back Iceland had its first police shooting fatality in the history of its police force. And even though it was totally unavoidable, the police apologized, because killing a person is such a horrible thing even when it's necessary. In the US, its just a Thursday.
Part of the problem is the Second Amendment. Cops in the USA have to assume that _everyone_ is an armed threat. That makes it a lot harder to convince them to de-escalate, rather than treating every traffic stop and minor nuisance call like it could be the OK Corrale. That's not a problem the UK, NZ, Netherlands etc. police have to deal with.
@@Grim_Beard I wouldn't go as far as to say that violence against cops is not a problem in the UK. They are going thru a rash of stabbings and a cop got stabbed by a suspect just recently. Cops need to use their body armor at all times while on the job. I agree there are too many guns on our streets, not just the illegal ones, legal ones that get used in crimes of passion or suicide. Stronger mental health checks on all gun owners would be a start, and yes better training for the cops. How about a few more so they don't have to do so much overtime. That seems to be a problem with policing around the world too many guns and too few cops.
@@jerrywatson1958 I didn't mean to suggest that violence against police doesn't happen in the UK, NZ etc. - although my phrasing was a little unclear. I just meant that the police don't have the problem of having to assume that every encounter is with an armed person, which police in the USA do have.
By the way, policing even in the USA is a very safe occupation. The police are way more afraid than they need to be, even with a heavily-armed population.
I'm not an American. But seeing the political landscape atm, i think i person like beau should be heard by all! He speaks wisdom, thinks about what to say, And he really knows how to put things in a certain perspective, so that there is no 2 ways of interpreting what he means. I wish you country well and i hope the people come together and rebuild the trust in America!
“Most of the do-gooders today? They’re doing it out of anger.”
No truer words, mate.
I can second this information as a former Military Police officer, all these things have been covered as far back as at lest 2007 as that when i started my training and all of this was covered. I don't see how the US military training covers all this and our start and city's don't have this training its baffling and shameful, keep up the great Videos Beau.
I am wondering.. isn't a lot of that already covered in standard military traning over in the US?
I work a lot with police and military, have many friends and family working in those fields, here in Germany, and i think most of that is also taught in basic military traning.
Especially stuff like not being trigger happy but first assessing the situation and what not to do when restraining someone.
Cops don't need military weapons in the first place. Cops having military weapons without military training is madness. Even without military weapons, they obviously need that military training anyway. And maybe a reminder that they're meant to protect and serve.
I remember covering the stuff about only one person giving commands when detaining someone with my ROTC Ranger Challenge Company in the early 2000s. We were a bunch of dumb college students learning how to search someone for weapons. It's a disgrace that the average police officer either doesn't have or can't be bothered to follow the same guidelines.
“The true believers are the most dangerous.”
Never has a truer statement ever been said.
Every time I return to the states from (long sojourns) overseas, I am shocked at how militarized American society is. Bomb sniffing dogs, officers with automatic weapons patrolling the concourses, recordings instructing on what to do in various ominous scenarios... and that's just in the airport. Stepping outside, there's the invariable bevvy of souped up law enforcement vehicles and heavily armoured officers.
These sights make me wonder if America is truly that lawless or is everything designed to perpetuate a culture of fear?
Kudos, Beau, for pointing out officers' fear as a prime motivator. Now, the question: has the culture of fear been so successfully perpetuated that even those who perpetuate it are fearful?
Exercising the Spirit of the law VS letter of the law .
Excellent analysis
1. Ideological True believers
(cult mentality)
2. child afraid of their shadow
(Developmental immaturity)
3. Starsky and hutch it . .
(action hero wannabes)
And so many other fantastic points illustrated with such precision.
You are the modern day YODA with a beard. May I have some more please ?
The sad thing is I thought Beau just created this video during this time of protest. Everything he said completely applies to what is happening right now.
Yes. Because it has been happening. Nothing new at all.
when i was a little girl, police officers were there to keep the peace versus enforce the law...they were called peace officers. huge difference in perception and application. police cars used to have "to serve and protect" written on them. i really think we need to return to that mindset
Something I've said since I was a teenager. "To serve and protect" isn't supposed to be some cute catchphrase or slick marketing slogan. It's SUPPOSED to be a solemn vow, one that it feels far too many police officers don't embrace.
I grew up in -- what I still refer to as -- the Commiewealth of Taxachusetts. In Mass, I never knew an honest cop. I got in the habit of rolling around with a $50 in the open part of my wallet so when I showed the officer my license it was sitting on top. The year I moved away the chief of police in the town I lived in resigned in disgrace and went on trial for taking bribes.
... and I moved to Keene, New Hampshire in 1998. Suddenly I encountered police officers that didn't behave like those I grew up with. They refused grift! They didn't harass me just because I was male, outdoors, at 3AM. (I have non-24 sleep-wake disorder). When a friend of mine got set up to pick up a fake prescription by a co-worker, instead of slapping the cuffs on someone with a history of abuse and in pure panic, they defused the situation by not treating her as a threat, the "protocols" of an arrest be damned. When my most recent ex started making up crazy stories after I kicked her out, showing up at the door with an officer to get her stuff (of which she ended up taking... uhm... I'm not even sure she took anything on that visit) he just asked to come in, what stuff was hers, if she could take it, and if I could go someplace in the apartment where we didn't interact. It was calm, controlled, and respectful.
If that had been Massachusetts when I lived there twenty years ago, EVERY one of those incidents I just listed out would have been met with guns drawn, a beatdown, and cuffs.
Now, there are a couple officers who will remain unmentioned, who do target certain individuals I know, playing favorites in terms of "liking" someone. But overall? It's night and day the difference between how the Keene PD tries to honor the "To serve and protect" ideology compared to the jackboots I grew up with one state to the south. I don't know if it's still that way down there some two decades later, but the joke remains -- everything in Massachusetts is illegal, it all hinges on how badly the officer wants to fuck over your life today.
Those police cars today do say that. It's just that you now have a broader view.
They are there to enforce the social economic and power structure.
Really...can't even imagine how much abuse was going on 20,30, or 40 years ago! There was no accountability!!. I think your ruminating about the good old days that were not so good!
You know, its strange from a European perspective. There is a huge distinction between police and special forces here, and the police never ever enters a building if there is the possibility of hostility,if no one else is in danger.
They secure the area, and call the SEK (special deployment unit) which is consistent of people who are, in hirarchy cops (ministry of interior) but in all else special forces. They don't do patrol. The don't do disturbances. They train and learn everyday for there area of expertise.
@@frederikspitra7832 We haves SWAT for that. But with enough probable cause those lines get blurred really hard.
"Most of the do gooders today, they're doing it out of anger." Is a fucking raw line that I'm never going to forget, sir.
If only all Americans thought like this guy, then they would be a true super power
This reminds me when I was 9 years old and I yelled at a driver who ran over a cat and a cop drove up on me and yelled at me to stop when I started to run thinking I was in trouble... but the reason I stopped was because he had his hand on his gun. 9 years old and he was ready to pull his gun on me.
I've never forgotten that.
Wow.
I was 16 the second time a gun was pointed at me in anger, & a policeman was pointing it at me. My friend and I had pulled out of the driveway and met a car with its headlights on high beam. My friend quickly flashed his lights from low to high beam and back to low. Guess what. Yep, it was a policecar. The cop responded by turning on the blues, and we stopped still in front of my home. Cop comes up to us and orders us to exit the vehicle and put our hands on the hood. Why? I asked. Put your hands on the hood. Stupidly I turned away and started walking to my front door saying that I was going to get my father. Wrong. TURN AROUND AND PUT YOUR HANDS ON THE HOOD. When I turned around he had pulled his revolver, hammer cocked aimed at me. Belive you me, I did exactly as he said without another word. He got our wallets rifled through them, after patting us down, backed up to the patrol car, and got on the radio. Never knew why he pulled us over. Eventually he put our wallets on our hood and left. When I told my father about this he called the station and asked about what was going on. Of course they had no idea about which cop this was and the only thing I could describe was the revolver. They came up with the excuse that some kids had been shooting out streetlights so he probably thought we were those kids. Funny thing, it was a very quiet street, we never heard gunshots, and every streetlight within miles worked. I've been leary of cops since. I'm 60 now and for 46 years I've never trusted a cop. I also follow every order they give because if a cop will draw down on a 140 pound scrawny kid with pimples who shaves every 3 weeks they will probably shoot a long haired long bearded 215 pound man. God bless their hearts.
Time, distance, and cover. Some 20 years ago I took a hazardous material first responder class and the instructor advised that when you roll up on a spill of an unknown substance the first thing to do is, check your Cop-O-Meter.
Then he explained what a Cop-O-Meter is,, it being the first cop(s) on the scene who likely rushed right in.
If that cop is lying on the ground, or on his knees choking, you can assume that you have a toxic spill and take safety precautions.
Who, in God's name, disliked this video? This reasonable man's lesson?
"most do-gooders today are doing it out of anger"
damn.
@J Calhoun when i stop for an accident and help injured people, i am dong this because i am angry? so when i promised "to help other people at all times" as taught to me in the Boy Scouts, i am only doing this because i am angry. it's not because i do these things because it's the right thing to do? you do good things only because you are angry? i think not
@J Calhoun No, I'm not. there are people like me all over the place. they even make youtube videos out of so many of them they break these do-gooders into various categories,
@@jmleaf8102 I understand where you're coming from but I think the sentiment of the quote is lost thru the perception of 'Anger' here. I think there is a level of self-sacrificing for the common good that I think any average person of good character has the potential for and some are taught to act on (like yourself learned thru the boy scouts) but then there is an elevated kind of feeling towards injustice that goes beyond that. When a tragedy or injustice happens and you feel nothing you will do nothing. Those that feel something, say something, but finally do nothing are what some would call "keyboard warriors" and just a lot of noise. The ones to react to injustice in righteous anger or another strong emotion and are compelled to do something about it are the ones he's talking about. Altruism is admirable and can be learned but the ones who are COMPELLED from an emotional response will not be swayed. They are the zealots from every religion or ideology and should be understood as such.
@@phillipstai7204 : Hello, "The ones to react to injustice in righteous anger". That is the part that I am having a problem with. Because a person zealously is righteous in his or her anger, does not equal a violent response. In reference to this video, I was bothered by the caveat of a "Do Gooder". There was no mention that the person doing a good thing, who looked just like the man, giving out food after the hurricane, might actually be a good person. I think that a lot of police forget that they are interacting with good actors also. That should have been mentioned.
@@jmleaf8102 For sure. 'Do gooders' is a particularly interesting way to put it and probably could have been explained a bit better. I have heard people from several parts of the country use that term to illustrate not a generally good person but the type that acts out strongly like the man in this scenario: Obstinately and knowingly disregarding the law to do objective good but driven from anger and/or discontentment with how things were being otherwise handled. And that's of course not a bad thing. Most revolutions from tyranny started with action from those types of people.