Riley24

Glad to see it and pretty overdue. It was propaganda. 

I am a first responder in a diverse city who has seen all of this first-hand. The United States is a police state.
 
Police in the United States are, for the most part, completely unaccountable. Police unions have applied pressure to politicians who refuse to criticize or reform them, and prosecutors who need good relationships with police so they rarely prosecute accusations. It is lucky to have a cop fired, let alone charged and convicted. Officers who do face consequences are often times rehired by other departments. Police in the US are famous for brutality, acquisition (legalized theft) of private property, and proven racial disparity in terms of arrests, aggressive policing, use of force, and murder. Justification for police murder is often times based on vague things such as the fear of the officer. Civil rights and First Amendment violations are not terribly uncommon, and rarely have consequences. All of this is perpetuated by a for-profit prison industrial complex, military industrial complex that profits off of police militarization, and an inhumane war on drugs. Cities are spending millions (sometimes billions) of dollars on police budget inflation as social services suffer, with no proven impact on crime.
 
The protests/rioting you are seeing in the news are a result of ALL of this, in addition to socio-economic conditions created by decades of austerity and exacerbated by an inept response to coronavirus. Currently, we are seeing widespread and disturbing police brutality in every city across the country, with pretty much no signs of accountability. It is a massive escalation of state violence on peaceful protesters. Use of tear gas, rubber bullets, and physical violence is rampant.
 
Get triggered by this, I don't care. Needs to be heard. Won't be debating, it'll just get shut down anyway.
 
If you love your country, you must be willing to criticize it.
Black Lives Matter ✊

Glad to see it and pretty overdue. It was propaganda. 

I am a first responder in a diverse city who has seen all of this first-hand. The United States is a police state.
 
Police in the United States are, for the most part, completely unaccountable. Police unions have applied pressure to politicians who refuse to criticize or reform them, and prosecutors who need good relationships with police so they rarely prosecute accusations. It is lucky to have a cop fired, let alone charged and convicted. Officers who do face consequences are often times rehired by other departments. Police in the US are famous for brutality, acquisition (legalized theft) of private property, and proven racial disparity in terms of arrests, aggressive policing, use of force, and murder. Justification for police murder is often times based on vague things such as the fear of the officer. Civil rights and First Amendment violations are not terribly uncommon, and rarely have consequences. All of this is perpetuated by a for-profit prison industrial complex, military industrial complex that profits off of police militarization, and an inhumane war on drugs. Cities are spending millions (sometimes billions) of dollars on police budget inflation as social services suffer, with no proven impact on crime.
 
The protests/rioting you are seeing in the news are a result of ALL of this, in addition to socio-economic conditions created by decades of austerity and exacerbated by an inept response to coronavirus. Currently, we are seeing widespread and disturbing police brutality in every city across the country, with pretty much no signs of accountability. It is a massive escalation of state violence on peaceful protesters. Use of tear gas, rubber bullets, and physical violence is rampant.
 
Get triggered by this, I don't care. Needs to be heard. Won't be debating, it'll just get shut down anyway.
 
If you love your country, you must be willing to criticize it.
Black Lives Matter ✊

I am a first responder in a diverse city who has seen all of this first-hand. The United States is a police state.
 
Police in the United States are, for the most part, completely unaccountable. Police unions have applied pressure to politicians who refuse to criticize or reform them, and prosecutors who need good relationships with police so they rarely prosecute accusations. It is lucky to have a cop fired, let alone charged and convicted. Officers who do face consequences are often times rehired by other departments. Police in the US are famous for brutality, acquisition (legalized theft) of private property, and proven racial disparity in terms of arrests, aggressive policing, use of force, and murder. Justification for police murder is often times based on vague things such as the fear of the officer. Civil rights and First Amendment violations are not terribly uncommon, and rarely have consequences. All of this is perpetuated by a for-profit prison industrial complex, military industrial complex that profits off of police militarization, and an inhumane war on drugs. Cities are spending millions (sometimes billions) of dollars on police budget inflation as social services suffer, with no proven impact on crime.
 
The protests/rioting you are seeing in the news are a result of ALL of this, in addition to socio-economic conditions created by decades of austerity and exacerbated by an inept response to coronavirus. Currently, we are seeing widespread and disturbing police brutality in every city across the country, with pretty much no signs of accountability. It is a massive escalation of state violence on peaceful protesters. Use of tear gas, rubber bullets, and physical violence is rampant.
 
Get triggered by this, I don't care. Needs to be heard. Won't be debating, it'll just get shut down anyway.
 
If you love your country, you must be willing to criticize it.
Black Lives Matter ✊

That would be a great feature. Either the officer is in danger and needs backup, or he's overreacting and needs backup to diffuse the situation.

Glad to see it and pretty overdue. It was propaganda. 

I am a first responder in a diverse city who has seen all of this first-hand. The United States is a police state.
 
Police in the United States are, for the most part, completely unaccountable. Police unions have applied pressure to politicians who refuse to criticize or reform them, and prosecutors who need good relationships with police so they rarely prosecute accusations. It is lucky to have a cop fired, let alone charged and convicted. Officers who do face consequences are often times rehired by other departments. Police in the US are famous for brutality, acquisition (legalized theft) of private property, and proven racial disparity in terms of arrests, aggressive policing, use of force, and murder. Justification for police murder is often times based on vague things such as the fear of the officer. Civil rights and First Amendment violations are not terribly uncommon, and rarely have consequences. All of this is perpetuated by a for-profit prison industrial complex, military industrial complex that profits off of police militarization, and an inhumane war on drugs. Cities are spending millions (sometimes billions) of dollars on police budget inflation as social services suffer, with no proven impact on crime.
 
The protests/rioting you are seeing in the news are a result of ALL of this, in addition to socio-economic conditions created by decades of austerity and exacerbated by an inept response to coronavirus. Currently, we are seeing widespread and disturbing police brutality in every city across the country, with pretty much no signs of accountability. It is a massive escalation of state violence on peaceful protesters. Use of tear gas, rubber bullets, and physical violence is rampant.
 
Get triggered by this, I don't care. Needs to be heard. Won't be debating, it'll just get shut down anyway.
 
If you love your country, you must be willing to criticize it.
Black Lives Matter ✊

We don't need new cars every year, and we don't need new cop cars every year. It's not environmentally conscious, and it's just a waste of money. Makes me chuckle when I see my departments 2015 FPIU next to a 2017 FPIU. Lol, Ford really suckered someone at the commissioners office huh.
 
But the new Tahoe looks sweet, looks-wise at least. But I wish it was electric.

Dude, relax.
 
All I did was ask you if you ever have. You said yes, and I shared a little bit of my opinion on the subject. Now you're berating me for the life choices we share. I and the majority of law enforcement officers support legalization, so I wasn't trying to offend your sensibilities somehow. I even thanked you for your honesty. I never asked for your advice on my future. You should keep that to yourself.

This thread is a fuckin rager I love it. 
 
 

Whats the point of this post.

Not to mention LSPDFR was last updated on June 10th. I think its safe to say we're due for an update. I've got an i7, 16gb RAM, and a 1070 and I get 30-45 fps on duty. 

Well let me make it very clear to you then. I fully support a nationally enforced and mandatory gun registry, expanding funding for the ATF, banning private sales between individuals, aggressive gun buybacks, at least 4-6 month waiting periods, psychiatric evaluations, you name it. All of that, nation wide. You can disagree, and I don’t care.
 
Look at all the security measures put in place after 9/11. It got really annoying to be a law-abiding responsible airline passenger. A lot of good Americans were inconvenienced and irritated by those measures. I believe we need to do the same thing with guns. It SHOULD annoying and inconvenient to acquire a killing machine. 

Yeah, just like stronger gun control.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nashville-police-officer-charged-criminal-homicide-after-shooting-black-man-

And you’re wrong about that. 
 
Yeah, it happens. I never said it didn’t. But the facts say that you’re more likely to shoot an innocent person or yourself than a bad guy who actually deserved to die.
 
I could say the same to you. Pro-gun articles don’t mention gun thefts, shooting innocent people and family members, or the connection between access to firearms and successful suicide. I’m sure you apply the same objectivity to pro-gun media, right?
 
Larger reality > anecdotes.
 
You’re asking questions that have already been answered. I can’t force to to accept reality, you’re on your own brother. There are a ton of studies about the relationship between guns and suicide, if you don’t understand by now you’re just ignorant. 
 
 Oh good god, dude. The romanticism you place on self-defense is super cringed. Yeah, I’ve been attacked. No chance of me seeing it coming. If I had a gun, he probably would’ve taken it from me and might’ve even shot me with it. 
 
Im done talking to you. You’re too deluded with self-defense machismo to be objective.

If she lunged, the police would not have left that detail out while trying to explain themselves. Use common sense.

Do you ever look into a mirror? -You- have a narrative. Something happens, it's muslisms' or black people's fault. An officer is attacked, it's a muslim or a black person, gotta be one. A shop is being looted, it's muslims immigrants or african americans, gotta be them. And if someone disagrees with you, they're nasty people hating the US and guns. And you dare tell others are close-minded and narcissistic? You can't be serious.
 
 
Being 30 (I do hope you actually aren't because otherwise it'd be scary af to act this way at this age) never stopped anyone to act like a child, which is exactly what you're doing. Repeating the same thing, over and over, and over and over and over like a kid asking "Are we there yet?". And don't you dare start talking about antogonize and instigate, because, and I'd love to remind you, this was supposed to be a discussion about a british officer being assaulted, and YOU brought France in the discussion, YOU directly named me even though I didn't talk to you but about the topic discussed at hand in the first place, all by yourself. Stop trying to victimize yourself because it won't work, everyone can see through your petty attempt at saving yourself.

And? Videos of African Americans looting proves what?
 
If you're going to be make this about race, at least be brave enough to actually make a point. Tell us how you really feel about African Americans.

Donny Youngblood of the Kern County Sheriff's Department said "This is the new normal, if you look across the country," describing the incident as a mass shooting. (source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45505610)
 
When even the cops consider this a new normal, you know it's a fucked up normality.

Firstly, don't try and play victim because somebody calls you out on the things you say - I don't hate Americans and I am not the one who reguarly posts anti-uk and europe stuff even though your country is far from perfect, and when I say far I mean like really, really far. Now just to break down that twitter post you quoted - I can bet you for a fact that they are seized from people who have no reason to be carrying them, people who aren't handymen who are likely part of a gang who won't be able to bring up one valid reason on why they need to be carrying them around, you'll probably say it's anti-freedom but I call it great police work.

I don't see how you can complain about a country that actually tries to solve an issue instead of just sitting back and letting it happen time an time again, different cultures I guess.

Sarcastic lol

I guess it's better than other countries approaches of doing nothing and expecting that the outcome will be different.