But we aren’t cursing cops for failing to enforce these laws.īut that’s what cops do, because it allows them to talk people into consent for warrantless searches. Failure to signal? Following too closely? Driving too slowly in the left lane? We honk, we throw the bird, we curse under our breath.
#Killing floor 2 c4 drivers#
Most of the law enforcement action we see stems from traffic stops predicated on violations most drivers consider to be, at best, simply annoying. When people expect police to act quickly, cops respond slowly if they bother responding at all. Clearance rates make it clear committing murder is as likely to pay off as spinning a roulette wheel. In many large cities, murder is a seller’s market. Homicide/murder clearance rates are abysmal. The crimes people care about, the police don’t.
Kicked off by a president who obliged noted drug abuser Elvis Presley with a White House photo op, the War on Drugs has become a handy way for cops to help themselves to people’s property without having to worry about actually providing probable cause to support their actions. Instead, law enforcement focuses on the one thing that benefits it: the War on Drugs.
Your average property crime might feel significant to the victim, but the distribution of law enforcement resources doesn’t prioritize petty theft. Calls came to strip funding from cop shops that had done little but extend the racist narrative of this country, focusing their enforcement efforts on poor minorities to ensure they were never able to raise themselves to the level where their votes or opinions might matter.Ĭops are terrible at solving crimes. Floyd died, suspected of nothing more than passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a local store. “ Defund the police!” people shouted as cops continued to kill unarmed black people in ways that went far past “subjectively defensive” into “objectively racist.” Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd for ten minutes, personifying 300 years of white oppression of black people.