Police Stings: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Police are taught to be in constant fear for their lives. It's drilled into them during the pathetic amount of training they are given. This is despite the fact that it's like 6 times more dangerous to be pregnant than it is to be a cop. They use their weapons in a way that should make anybody who has spent 10 minutes around firearms cringe. They use them like a safety blanket, rather than a weapon of deadly consequence.

That dog is luckier than most dogs who encounter police. They're all Kristi Noems, even to their K9s.

Why shouldn't they have a duty they can be punished for ignoring? Soldiers in the military are given knowingly dangerous orders that put their lives at risk all the time, and to refuse a lawful order is illegal. That's just a job too. One that pays way worse than what cops get paid. And lets just say I do accept the idea that police shouldn't have a duty to put themselves in harms way to protect the public. Then fine. Their funding should be slashed to the bone. They shouldn't wear bullet-proof vests and they shouldn't carry fire arms. They can get paid 50k a year with a 2% bump for inflation every year, but that's it. If there is no obligation to protect the public from criminals then police are just adult hall monitors and should be treated like it. And I really want you to place yourself in Ms. Gonzales shoes here. You've gotten a PPO against your ex-husband, and he's continually broken it. Now he's kidnapped your children that he is only supposed to see during supervised visits. You are begging, pleading, multiple times for the police to do literally anything. And they refuse. And it's only when your ex shows up at the station at 3 in the morning do they kill him and find that he has killed your children. Are you honestly telling me that that is the world you want to live in? It's not like the cops were making an analysis here that Simon was dangerous and they needed to wait for the best moment before taking him out. It's not like they made an effort to find and contact Simon and see what was going on. There was no investigation, at all. It's not like the were waiting for the court house to open in the morning so they could get an arrest warrant and go get Simon. They refused to do literally anything. I don't like that the police, with all the money and respect they are given have absolutely 0 obligation to the public. If they don't feel like investigating something, boohoo. You're children were kidnapped? Eh just see if they show back up later. It's absurd and should not be the reality we live in. We can have better.