Do you have questions about law enforcement? Like, a lot of questions? Maybe for some reason you've recently been desperately searching for answers?
Well, Fuzzy and Officer Dale know a bunch of cool facts about the police! Facts like:
• Police officers have no legal obligation to protect you from imminent harm!
• You can be too smart to be a police officer!
• Cops aren't required to know the law even as they arrest people for breaking it!
Fuzzy and his friend cover everything from overtime and pensions, to police training and qualified immunity!* They even take time to talk about doggies!
Written, edited, and performed by Austin Bragg; camera and graphics by Meredith Bragg
*Qualified Immunity was legislated into existence by the Supreme Court first in Pierson v Ray, and further bolstered by Harlow v Fitzgerald in a way that directly contradicted the spirit of Section 1983.
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So is it Officer Dale, or Officer Dave?
Pretty sure it's actually Officer Rusty Shackleford... Shackleford
SCOTUS has ruled Three (3) times that the police have no obligation to protect you.
However, here in California, if you elect to protect yourself, God help you.
Yes, but they're all rhetorical.
Do you have questions about law enforcement? Like, a lot of questions?
Who's asking? I plead the 5th.
My only questions are "Am I under arrest? Am I being detained?"
Police have two rules. Zero tolerance for noncompliance, and zero tolerance for anything that could compromise officer safety.
That's why they are under no obligation to save school children from a mass murderer. That would violate rule number two.
It's like Asimov's rules for robots, but in reverse.
It is amazing that in a country self-described as the Land of the Free, the police, as agents of the state, have so much effectively unchallengeable authority and protection, and are so readily defended by people who proclaim their preference for a small and less powerful government (I'm talking conservatives, not libertarians. Not that an explanation for the hypocrisy of conservatives is hard to come by.)
The definition of Individual Justice is the key...
Plus; Pretty sure 'conservative' haven's don't have as many cops being tyrannical dictators like Nazi-haven's do... Personal perspective may be wildly different between the two.
Reasons favorite fact is more officers will be shot this year.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-officers-shot-2022
Cops aren't required to know the law even as they arrest people for breaking it!
I've always loved this in particular. Question a cop and "ignorance of the law is no excuse". But concurrently we can't expect people who work with it every day to understand even the most obvious legal points like "don't steal when you pull someone over".
It's just ridiculous.
Cops don't need to know the law because law enforcement isn't their job. Their job is to force compliance. They tell people what to do and initiate violence when the person doesn't immediately and unquestioningly obey. That's their job. That and to collect revenue in the form of fines and confiscated property. Any law enforcement that happens along the way is incidental.
In Seattle, officers must list the municipal code for the offense in question.
At least one of the filler points should have been how police are not something that has always been around in this country. First dept was Philly 1835 and most town didn't have any till the 1880s.
Most towns* People think the bluecoats are this super American thing and they are so not.
But their predecessors were around long before becoming a "police force." Boston and other cities had "watchmen" around since the mid 1600s.
https://ekuonline.eku.edu/blog/police-studies/the-history-of-policing-in-the-united-states-part-1/
And weirdly, shortly after the establishment of formal police departments, you get the first vigilante groups.
Officer Dale should have been screaming "STOP RESISTING!" towards the end of that video.
Excellent video. Thanks, Austin Bragg.
the puppets' delivery is the same as the real people. buena.
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great line.