for the last part you have been brainwashed to believe that
i do believe lots of cops are doing nothing at least nothing positive for the communities they police. i think things wouldn’t change the way you’d think if you had less cops around.
Remember that time New York cops refused to their job and ultimately came back because people started realizing they didn't need them around all the time.
When New York police officers temporarily reduced their “proactive policing” efforts on low-level offenses, major-crime reports in the city actually fell, according to a study based on New York Police Department crime statistics.
www.latimes.com
Arrests and crime are down amid cops’ protest of the firing of officer Daniel Pantaleo, who killed Eric Garner.
newrepublic.com
Yet police slowdowns haven’t made the city any less safe. As Monahan himself went on to
say, this year is on track to be the third in a row with fewer than 300 homicides and 800 shootings. Despite that, union president Lynch sees a much more terrifying New York now with one less lawbreaking officer in it.
NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill fired Pantaleo August 19, after a departmental trial found the 13-year veteran officer
guilty of using the illegal choke hold, killing Garner. In letting Pantaleo go, O’Neill had betrayed all New York cops, Lynch
lamented. “Our police officers are in distress—not because they have a difficult job, not because they put themselves in danger, but because they realize they are abandoned. The captain has jumped ship. The mayor has told him to do it, and the streets are falling into chaos.”
The official police union twitter account put it more simply: “
#JobIsDead.”
This hashtagged response was overdramatic and roundly mocked. Yet it still correctly assessed the mood of many people around the country—those who have become too used to watching a police officer kill someone on video. When a law enforcement system is designed to police itself, and when it so rarely produces anything like accountability, that also signals the dead end of that job.
This slowdown, meant as a protest against an alleged “anti-police” environment, offers an argument for how inessential police can be to maintaining public safety. While members of law enforcement were in the tabloids anonymously
warning of a “Pantaleo effect,” the city went on. In the week that passed after Lynch threatened a slowdown,
arrests and summons are down compared to this time last year, but so are major crimes, (down 20 percent,
according to the NYPD).
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