How Many Cops Are Domestic Abusers? | Renegade Cut 

To everyone who has commented "Where is the Star Trek clip and the video game clip from the old intro?" from the past two videos: They're gone for a reason. If I kept them, people would naturally assume that some Star Trek videos and other pop culture videos would be forthcoming, and they're not. At all. The intro reflects the topics that will be discussed in the future. I didn't just forget. I just got my millionth "Remember when this channel did movie videos?!" comment, and I deleted it like I have every time someone has done that. I can't tell you how boring I find that. I do what I can to let people know what is and is not coming. Keeping those clips would give people the wrong impression, and I'm not going to do that. Thanks.

It is, objectively, the best line of work for a perpetrator who has the inclination to misbehave in this way.

A racist, a domestic abuser, and a murderer walk into a bar. The bartender says "What'll it be, officer?"

The fact that every cop show since the beginning of time portrays Internal Affairs as antagonists is all you need to know about how bad cops really are.

Was a cop for 17 years. Resigned out of disgust. This video is 100%.

There's a nice spray paint tag on a dumpster near where I live that reads "Good cops quit"

I was abused by my mother growing up, once at 17 and when the cops got called they just laughed at me, told me to be a "man" and move out. she would use police calls to "scare" me growing up just because she couldn't beat me like a child anymore since I was a huge kid. everytime a cop was involved she would act like i was an out of control animal and they would always treat me like one, cuff me put me in the car and sweat me out. I'll never forgive any of them for it, i almost became a cop just to do it to her. believe it.

Im a case manager at a women's homeless/DV shelter. I would bungee jump with dental floss before I even so much as befriended a cop, let alone became the intimate partner of one. The things I have heard from victims of their deranged psyches is pure nightmare fuel. Everything from being poisoned over months, to being chained in a basement and beaten, to watching their police sargeant husband point his service weapon at their infant child and demand she confess to an affair that never happened. These men are uniquely dangerous and truly do not believe they can be touched. I had one come to the shelter in full gear, on-shift, and demand to be told if his wife was there. He even claimed he was there on duty with full legal authority. He was actually on his lunch break and refused to call in another unit to confirm his "legally necessity" to access his wife. She had to hunker down inside the shelter while another staff called more units (and didnt specify it was one of their own trying to break in) and this guy threatened WITH HIS WHOLE CHEST to arrest staff for refusing to use their keyfobs to let him in the building. He even reached for a staff's lanyard at one point. We had this all on multiple security cameras, and all the other cops did was give him a pat on the back and a "Hey, buddy, lets go cool off". No report number was given or filed. She eventually left to go with family in another state, and I always hope she's okay, but there is always the twinge of doubt. Because all, yes, absolutely fucking ALLLLLLL cops are bastards.

I was once advised by a career police officer that the best way to avoid being issued a ticket during a traffic stop as a woman is to cry and claim that you are trying to please your husband so he doesn't hit you. Apparently this works because a lot of male police officers beat their own wives and take pity on docile women 😒

My coworker used to date a cop. She described seeing a new therapist and after one session of describing her emotional and relationship struggles the therapist asked "Are you dating a cop?" Police abuse is so rampant and thorough that the therapist just knew.

When we say ACAB it's for a reason

To be real, giving potentially fragile people prone to power tripping a few months training and then giving them a license to kill, surveil, use force, pass judgement on others and give them the most supreme protections against the law and the criticisms of civilians… is probably not a great idea.

My mom was a correctional officer. Domestic abuse is known in all types of agencies. Whether it's PD (city),sheriff (county/rural), state trooper, or higher levels of law enforcement such as FBI and homeland security. These agencies attract a certain type of people who will verbally, emotionally, intimately, and physically abuse their spouses. Many cop supporters and fellow officers would defend a cop who is a DV offender. I heard it all my life: "It's the job, it's the stress, it's the politics, it's the [ ] excuse. But like my mom said, growing up. " Some criminals wear stripes. The clever ones were badges and suites." She was physically assaulted by another officer when she helped her nephew fight a police brutality case against a fellow sheriff officer. She didn't give a damn about loyalty, and he made sure he knew who she was by going to where she worked in the jail and kicking her out of her chair. He was only suspended without pay for his actions. He was terminated for assaulting a fellow officer while in uniform while on shift. He had no business being in the jail, let alone in the area she worked. But he managed to get to her so he could attack her. I remember that, my mom came home with back pain, and she was furious. She wanted him fired, but I.A. and jail warden said they would suspend him without pay. She wanted to press charges, but her director, including that assaulting officer's commander, told her that wasn't going to be necessary. The suspension without pay was enough discipline. The culture of cops protects each other no matter what is why my mom left corrections. She couldn't take it anymore and thay was some 15 Yeats ago. I doubt anything has changed.

My brother-in-law was a cop for 30 years. He said that in his experience a large percentage of abuse cases involved cops as the abuser and on the flip side, nurses were more likely to be the abused. He retired in the late 1990's, but I don't imagine much has changed since.

I remember reading about a town in Alaska where it was discovered that 100% of the police department had a history of domestic violence (many of them with convictions). The town had a record of hiring cops who got kicked out of other departments across the US, which explains the 100% figure. It also makes you realise that domestic violence was not something they considered a black mark when hiring someone. Which is extremely worrying, and you can only wonder just how widespread that attitude is.

Number of cops that are abusers: Varies from 10% to 40%. Number of cops that are complicit in that abuse: 100%

"The polite code of silence dictates that no matter what, cops protect and defend other cops." Sounds more like a mafia than an institution created to protect people.

Depends on how many cops are single.

Had a neighbor who was a cop. Was always confused why they blasted music/ TV at random times. It was because he would abuse his live in gf. All of us neighbors knew, and we were also too afraid to call.

A job that tells gives you the freedom to escalate any situation as far as you want to get what you desire can only create monsters

As a professional educator of adults, I am so, so sick to death of hearing, "well they were trained that way" or that education will fix the problem. A sad reality of the field of andragogy is that adults will learn just enough to parrot back and pass a test, and then completely disregard the information the second their environment permits them to do so. You can't teach a liar to be honest, you can't teach an entitled person out of their entitlement, or someone who's acting in bad faith to act in good faith, you can't teach someone who went into a career field explicitly to hurt others to *not do that.* You can only set up systems that will filter them our and remove those who got past the filtering process. I don't think the general public fully realizes how many of their doctors and nurses think chakras and crystals will solve their medical issues, and have only the laws and practices of the hospital to thank for the fact that their nurse didn't try to use quartz crystals and/or bible readings to fix your kidney stones. Same goes for the police. No amount of training is going to fix what's wrong with the police without extensive, *expensive* and time consuming restructuring of the cops as a whole. The current batch is already going out of its way to undermine the bare minimum guardrails in place, and are demonstrating how ineffective reforming the police as an organization would be. It's literally cheaper and more efficient to just wipe the slate clean and start over with how we want law enforcement to work.

40% self report, so it is for sure more than 40%. Assuming 40% is the ceiling ignores that cops know what it means to implicate yourself in a crime. 40% is absolutely the floor and we will probably never know how high the ceiling goes.

"They used to say we could grow up to be cops or criminals, and to that I say this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?" - The Departed

My dad sort of fell into being a police officer. He was struggling his senior year of college for a STEM degree, got too discouraged and went to the police for an immediate well paying job. He didn't go in with the "police personality" but he certainly developed one. Luckily he was never abusive, but who he was in uniform isn't someone I liked.

As a dispatcher allow me to add this. Ask for EMS (ambulance service)first go to a hospital get the doctors to document any and all injuries in your medical history that way even if you don't feel comfortable for the obvious reasons of reporting you have a medical history as testimony for your abuse.

The people who wanted to be police growing up were people YOU DO NOT WANT as police officers. All of them with NO EXCEPTION were short fuse, controlling, manipulative bullies.

There's another category of victims you missed; same sex partners of police officers. The only person I know who has been in a romantic relationship with a police officer was a woman who was dating a cop who was also a woman. The cop was (shocker) incredibly abusive for years until they finally broke up. She's now dating another cop. We don't keep in touch anymore, but I'm afraid for her.

As someone who grew up on conservative propaganda and who joined the military to be the good guy, I was immediately disillusioned upon meeting my heroes. And yet, I trust the average watchstander more than the average cop. I’m not a child anymore but it still bites to see the amount of just “badness.” It forces me to shed a lot of my notions I valued as a kid. But adaptation is part of life, eh?

To give you an idea of how bad it can be: My friend who was in a foster situation under a female police officer opted to go back to a highly absive household where his sa'er resided still than suffer under the female police officer. Thats how bad it was

The bigger issue is how law enforcement is actually held to a LOWER standard than society itself. We expect ordinary citizens to behave and know the law better than cops. If cops got harder sentences for their actions as well as higher level of scrutiny and transparency, it wouldn't be such a beacon for these types.

This is slightly different, but it has to do with power too. TW: abuse. It is not just police. My dad was a CEO at a water company. The only time my mom dared to call the police was when he nearly choked me to death multiple time when I was a kid, but hung up after 3 seconds in fear because she knew nobody would listen, that's why I ran away so many times. They came over anyway, my dad was in his bed watching a movie just asking 'Do you know who I am? I can give you your salary for months, just leave us alone.' They didn't even give papers they just left. I cried seeing them leave 'you were our only hope how dare you.'

Having worked in DV advocacy in a rural area: All of this is magnified for those who don't live in urban areas. It's harder to physically get out, easier to be isolated, and it can be harder to get an OP. The OP (at least in my state) means that an abuser can't have access to guns, and if you've got a judge who is skeptical about the victim's story or is super pro-cop they may not grant it. The local police force (if the abuser is part of said force) may not enforce the order if the survivor is still in the area. The good news, though, is that you don't have apply for an OP in the jurisdiction that the abuse took place in. It can be in a different county or district, assuming the survivor is staying there at the time. Filing for one needs to be acted on quickly, though, because judges may not see the danger if it's been multiple days or weeks since a person fled and haven't acted on it. (Believe me, I know how counterintuitive this can be as a person dealing with active trauma is not in the headspace to be doing the paperwork or making lots of decisions and would rightfully want to clear their head before going into a court room.) Another consideration, as was mentioned in the video, is that DV shelters (we're pushing the away from calling them women's shelters because those that accept federal funds have to admit survivors of all genders, and we know that people of all genders can be abused and need a place to go), are often under funded and under staffed. This may result in them not being able to accept victims who are from outside their service area (mine covered 8 counties but it still wasn't enough in some cases.) But all of this is why we need advocates and we need people who can provide the resources, and understand the systems and supports available. They need to be able to provide that information and guidance (not legal advice, though) to survivors. We can't put it all on those who are in the scariest moment of their lives to try to solve all their problems. And we definitely need to be armed with information like what Leon presented to explain why abused partners don't "just leave" when they are mistreated. And we need to talk about that attempting to leave is statistically the most potentially lethal moment for someone being abused. Add access to guns and the training of cops to use force on those who are trying to evade and that is terrifying. The DV shelter movement was born out of a lack of support for women in abusive situations by the systems around them. We need to keep expanding the mutual aid and community care that allows survivors to actually get out. (If you read this far, thank you

Protecting and Serving - Not Even Once.

Thank you for talking about this topic. I grew up with a dad in law enforcement, and he abused me throughout my life, starting at age 8 or 9. I lived for years with the knowledge that telling anyone would hurt me more than help me, and even running away would just mean he’d be that much angrier when the authorities handed me back over to him. My brother didn’t learn that lesson as quickly and actually told his school principal “my dad beats me.” Before reporting it, the principal apologized to my dad because she had no choice as a mandatory reporter, giving him a heads up on what my brother had said. The DHS caseworker assigned to the report called my dad and said basically “we got this report, isn’t that funny? I’m just gonna close it without investigating cause I know you’re a stand-up guy and would never do that.” My dad’s abuse of my brother didn’t stop. I’m 30 years old now and safer than I ever was growing up, but it still terrifies me to know that I can never hide my address from him (he can look me up in government databases), and that if he shows up, there is no one to call for help. I’ve even warned my friends and partners not to try to intervene if he gets violent because the BEST case scenario would be my partner going to jail for years for attacking a cop while my dad faced no consequences. I’m hundreds of miles away now and I’ve changed my name, but I still won’t feel completely safe until he’s dead.

The fact that, despite how dangerous and difficult is for the victims to come forward, 40% of the cops are still *reported* is enough to tell you how violent these people are

Same as the military, it's astounding how on both sides higher ups will hide or shield offenders in order to save a carrer, same goes for dui's

Had a cop get livid with me when he wanted to commit tax evasion and I refused to help. He ended up taking his wife into the car and I fear for her. I refused to work with him again but he apparently came back in a couple hours alone and cool as a cucumber. Given he made me feel afraid as was…. Blech.

Another tip for reporting, if you have another type of police force in your area, like state troopers, see if you can go to them first. There will still be some protect other law enforcement bias, but you might have a better chance with getting it out of the control of their friends and department.

These concerns are equally valid for Prison guards/Corrections officers. My roommate dated one and they were extremely controlling. I never witnessed any physical altercations but heard about some that happened at a bar. Biggest red flag for me was learning that my roommate wasn't allowed to shower on her own if the partner was home... that was extra creepy to me.

Being a cop literally corrupts your soul. You don't have to believe in magic or be deeply spiritual to see it. The core of who you are as a person, whether it is an intrinsic ethereal thing tied to your being or just the culmination of your values, opinions, & personality. The thing that makes you you is corrupted by being in a position with that much power and that little oversight.

Someone has to bare the burden when a cop couldn’t flex on a minority that day.

Law enforcement must know the laws they are enforcing. If they break the law they should be held accountable to a higher standard than the average citizen. Qualified immunity makes this impossible and soon citizens will take the matter into their own hands.

Really appreciate the practical advice for victims included here, nice work

I went on one date with a cop when I was in my early twenties. The next day, EVERY SINGLE female friend I had called or texted me to tell me the statistics. I ghosted that dude.

It sort of flipped in my family. Both parents were pigs (yes, they weren't the good ones.) And my mother was the abuser, to both my brother and step dad. It was a constant thing, even stabbing a dog, which was blamed on "a wild dog" according to their buddies who responded to the call. My mother hates that I stood up to her and tried to report her, but in the end? Everytime I did, she cried and broke down. She was all bluster, but that damn badge made her immune. In that single way? I'll never trust any others, but real life taught me quick that they have a bias (literally was pulled over after a guy passed ME illegally, because I was in 'an older car' and didn't belong even though I was working)

The same thing in the uk. The average rate for domestic abuse convictions is 6.9% if you are a police officer it drops to 3.9% .When my niece told me she was dating a police officer l was terrified. Thank god he ended the relationship. If it had been the other way round he had all the power the state bestowed upon him to make her life a living hell.

As the child of a police officer, this metaphorically and literally hit home for me. My father was actively abusive towards me and my mother. I felt like I had nowhere to turn. I couldn't call 911 since they all knew my dad. plus my father was our main income, so if he was gone, we were pretty much hopeless. I was finally able to get away a year ago, but my mom is still stuck :(

*Broke:* _He's just a bad apple_ *Woke:* _One bad apple spoils the bunch_

I've only ever known one cop personally in my life, he's the "organizer" of our pickup games and just from the way he behaves, you can just tell he's not a person you wanna be around. His default is to believe that people are trying to take advantage of him, he's a perpetual pessimist, always jumps to the worst conclusions without a thought in his head. He's married with a kid and I'm like damn, wouldn't want him to be my husband or father.

Had a woman in a self-defence class. Very nice woman, never a bad word on her lips, shy to a degree. Once we talked about domestic violence as a defence scenario and this topic came up with instruction on what to do. She got incredibly angry, because her partner tried to become a police officer for the second time (broke off the training the first time). He never took offence to that, but she did. Still don't quite get why that was.

My father can be added to this group And hurting without leaving marks is very accurate! Can’t tell you how many times my father did “pressure points” that hurt like hell and thought it was funny

This is why we need independent civilian organizations with the power to fire or even indict police officers.

Both of my parents worked in the criminal justice system. My father was a police officer for many years but later became an internal investigator for the King County Sheriff's Department in Washington state. He could tell you how many officers he had to investigate because of DV. My mother was a probation officer for the same county and had quite a few former officers as probation cases for DV as well. Thankfully my parents never had any of these problems but yeah.

And you wonder why regular every day citizens are scared of police

18:06 "They are not simply given firearms, they are given something far more dangerous: the benefit of the doubt" That's important

i live in Canada and there are similarities. i used to work with police in a former job and while they try to promote mental health, i was told only the child abuse people are mandated to get therapy. drinking is still a common coping mechanism. maybe things have changed over the last 10 years, but that is what i was told at the time by serving police.

Keep up the good work. I’ll be sharing this far and wide to combat the rampant copaganda.

love dancing to the banger intro before sitting down to listen to the depressing subject.

Pigs love snitches until they snitch on them

This isn't related to the abuser topic but I went back home to visit my family for easter this past Sunday and was very disappointed to see what was once our town's public library has now been transformed into a police department, even with blue lives matter flags in the windows 🤮

so one of my hobbies is customizing clothes, and I have a pink shirt that, among other things, has '40% COPS' written on it in acrylics

The only way the 40% self reported number is an over count is if cops are pretending to be abusers when they're not, which in and of itself is a chilling idea.

My mom was a cop for a brief time before I was born. She quit. Confiscated drugs went missing and her superior she saw buying meth from her neighbor. She said fuck that. She died a few years ago and a bit after she passed I saw a news article mentioning the county she worked in, and one of the drivers crashed his car while high on meth. My grandfather was kicked out of the force for beating too many domestic abusers, despite the fact he went home and beat my aunt, uncle, and grandmother. Her opinion was the best way to deal with abusive cops was to put them 6 feet under where nobody would find em. After she quit she got really into RATM and Body Count, and grilled cops in our shitty town when they would pull her over with her boyfriend who was black. Good cops quit.

Not a case of domestic abuse, but I was tazed by a cop after I drank too much at a party and started yelling obscenities. I had to go to the hospital and spend the night with electrodes (I mean they were sticky plastic things with cables) all over my body. Now every time I cross a cop I am reminded of this. I tended to dislike them before, now it's worse. We really need other specialists and just citizens in general to be able to peacefully de-escalate a situation. I could've been fine if I had just had my pills on me or if someone had found them for me. Instead, got tazed. Bolts and burning throughout the body. It doesn't long, but the feeling is horrible! I do not wish it upon even my worst enemy...

i called the police on my father that he tried to kill me + threw boiling oil on my then 5 year old sister [3 degree burns] ,they drank coffe with him and acted like hes the victim cuz I HAD THE AUDACIDY TO CALL THE POLICE ON MY father/owner on the station 2 women called me mentaly ill and a minor = liar and ''its not abuse when its not broken bones multiple times'', when i reported assault in public and phone stolen ,women yelled at me and told me i have an audacidy to accuse a man , there is a reason victims dont report ,when they dont get taken srsly ,and eaven if you report you dont , when i reported at 18+ i was told always ''ur an adult abuse doesent exist ur a narcicist'' i live in a christian catholic country ... i know 1 man who was r'ped as a kid and hes r'pist is in jail but the man now is a r'pist himself and ...hes free , i was r'ped by 3 men multiple times , noone cares , i meet a lot women whos r'pist never got arrested and noone cared about them they got r'ped multiple times and from ages 6+ ,usualy if ur a child you get thrown in a mental asylum BY POLICE if u report r'pe as a minor here and get slut shamed untill u think its your fault ,i constantly hear ''r'pe is rare'' , yea......sure ,its hard to report it cuz stigma + ur scarred etc after trauma+u know noone else got their abuser jailed ,those people will molest and r'ape more people because they are not in jail ....mostly men are r'pists but there are female ones tooand no mather what abuse what gender or sexuality noone cares ,i wish the justice stystem was actualy just and protect people not throw women /children in jail for self defense ,but get abusers and evil people to jail ,iv been a ''slave '' domestic abuse 21 years ,only people who ever cared to help were Muslims and 1 PSYCHOLOGIST

ALWAYS fight dirty against abusers, especially when they're cops!

28% spouses admitted they were abused 40% is the report figure for spouses AND children And that's the ones that were willing to talk about it

Policing and the military attract a high percentage of people who are too violent to exist in society without the protection these professions offer them.

Brought up a memory of when I was being abused by my father so I left to go to my friend's house for safety, but the cops were called and they manhandled me (teenage girl at the time) into their vehicle and brought me straight back to the abuse. They did not give a shit about what I was telling them.

I was arrested by a cop in my city who knew I didn't break any law. After trying to figure out what happened, I pissed off some person, who's friend was the security guard at Walmart and the mistress of a cop. I never met them before so don't know what I did to them for sure. But they had her friend in security call her boyfriend the cop and have him arrest me and my husband. She claimed I was stealing from Walmart. I of course hadn't stolen anything, so they changed it to trespassing, in a public store, that was open 24/7. The cops were very abusive to us. Walmart charged us thousands, and the cops, court and the city all charged us thousands more. It was over eight thousand in fines by the end of it. I had to take out tons of loans to cover it and will likely be in debt for the rest of my life and I'll never even know why really. I tried to tell some lawyers and the judge, but no one cared. You don't get justice when it's the cops who abuse you. Then my husband and I were on what our local cops called "the shit list" for almost a year after that. Where they would come our work places to harass us, and to our homes where they pointed guns at us for nothing. Just because we had pissed off one of their girlfriend's friends. When Walmart came to the city, it ended up shutting down every other store, so because I'm banned from all Walmarts for life, I now have to buy anything I need online as well. I can't even afford to move away because of how much debt I am under. After getting arrested in the middle of a store for just grocery shopping, and paraded around the front with all the customers at the checkouts booing, laughing and shouting horrible things at us. After the debt and abuse and no justice, I will never feel safe again.

All of em. The police in my town protected my abuser

I know someone who's dad was a cop and the stories I heard about their childhood were straight up horrific.

Whatever the number is, it’s much higher than anybody thinks because for every instance reported, you know there’s another one being covered up

Authoritarianism is a curse on human society. Giving authority to someone incapable of handling that power results in destruction. This is why we need a more stringent and humanitarian focus on the selection process and training of police. Failings for kindness are much better failings than failings of monstrosity.

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

I spent over a decade in LE. Domestic abuse is quite prevalent, especially if the officer lives in the jurisdiction in which they work.

they call them forty. forty percent of the city's budget. forty percent of beaten wives. forty minutes to enter that one school.

Thank you. I’m one of them and I’m sick of being silenced. My story could help others

My local police department has “domestic violence awareness” decals on their cars right now.

There is nothing that can't be made worse by police involvement.

when i was 14 my mom told me never to date a cop bc they all beat women, and told me how our city's police had nearly gone bankrupt just 2 years earlier from sexual assault lawsuits

Years ago I had a co-worker who was a cop. He worked part-time at our company. On a couple of occasions we grabbed lunch together. As we got more familiar with each other he’d open up to me. He would tell me about how he used to beat his ex wife and he’d go into great detail about it. He showed no remorse and almost seemed proud of it. He inherited some property from his Mom and Dad in the mountains so he would go up there a couple of times a year. He told me he impregnated 2 women out there and threatened to kill them if they came looking for child support. And he told them “I’ll get away with it because I’m a cop”. According to him he’s never paid a dime in child support and has never met the children. Dude was a loose cannon. When we’d grab lunch together I noticed he had a very short fuse. If the waitress took too long refilling his coffee he’d become belligerent and aggressive towards her. Now that I think about it, almost every cop that I’ve know in my personal life has been an unhinged lunatic.

All of them.

I knew a cop that abused his GF, she called the police and he *was arrested* on the spot (she had red whelps around her neck, and drag marks from her tennis shoes on the wood floor from him carrying her by her neck). The reason he wasn’t protected was because he was so hated by the PD, from the top down. Best part? Not only did he have to go to court and now has a record, but he was fired 2 DAYS before retirement 💸💸💸

I'm dumbfounded that you're still at only 300k subs, with the consistent quality of your productions. I blame the YT algorithms (double entente intended) for the most part, but it's hard to argue that the state of our culture isn't also a contributing factor to the slow uptake. What do you think? On topic, though: 1312-ACAB and all that. Most police forces hire exactly these types of abusive personalities, and their poor training only serves to re-enforce these antisocial tendencies. They belong to a tribe with more power and less oversight that asked them to be the way they are; we should net be surprised.

It's easy to see how a position of authority and the stability of a government salary can look when women are considering a long-term relationship. If only they knew the risks... Not saying all cops are that way, but they should at least start looking for red flags long before they start sharing a roof.

What's the old phrase, cops beat, firemen cheat?

Given how abusers think and operate, it is unfortunate to recognize that a questionnaire asking about domestic abuse mailed to the home almost certainly resulted in victims being blamed for the questionnaire and suffering further abuse. That's some pretty awful methodology on their part, dang.

Unfortunately though, protective orders legally don't have to be enforced, despite the fact they 100% should be. This was ruled by SCOTUS in 2005 (Castle Rock v. Gonzales). While it's still a good thing to create a paper trail, additional protection (if it is within in the person's means) is likely necessary.

I'm glad you brought up the "us vs them" mentality. I've met a lot of policemen who constantly refer to people as "bad guys", as if every person who breaks the law is an evil villain or something. It concerns me to see so many officers assume the worst intentions on everybody. I definitely see that in part as a trauma response. However, if your PTSD is making you assume everyone is "the bad guy" and you shoot first and ask questions later, it's time to step away from your job.

If you or someone else is having a mental health issue and don't know what to do other than call your number for the police, tell them you want an ambulance, not the murderous Michelin men.

From what we are seeing in the UK, a whole lot of them. It's truly horrible.

You can tell instantly from body cam and phones. If the "suspect" is begging for mercy and the "officer" gets angry and beats them. You have an abuser.

My abusive ex tried to become a police officer. He took the entrance exam 3 times and got rejected all 3. He certainly fit all the abusive requirements. He was controlling, possessive, he got angry at the drop of a hat, he got turned on when I told him “no.” He was deeply dissatisfied with his life and he took it out on me. I suspect the only reason he didn’t get into police academy is that he was too smart. They knew he had loftier goals than police, and they only want people who plan to get in and stay in.

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” - Lord Acton (1887)

Not only did this video not get buried but the bell actually went off and informed me! Hopefully that means you're out of the bullshit algorithm miasma.

Pretty sure you're going to save lives with this video. If there's a heaven, I think you've earned your ticket in. Thank you. I hope you keep making stuff.

I knew it was bad ... but I didn't know it was THIS bad.

I had heard 40% for years (thanks HBomberguy's "Roblox Oof" video for reminding me). Other studies say between 4.8%-40% or closer to 22%. Regardless it's higher than the average population. Going to watch this while I do some chores but I'm sure that number is impacted by the number of people who seek positions with power over people (some being sociopaths) who look for careers in policing. I'm sure some join because they want to be "good guys" but these positions are also of great interest to those who just want control over, or the ability to intimidate others.

It's disturbing to know people choose a particular career because they know they can get away with being a sociopath