The Irony of current policing is now well discussed as with this two-tier system we have. These pictures are taken in a major train station, with a gated waiting seating area, designated for ticked customers only and cops all over the station.
On one hand, I’m banned from this waiting area despite being a ticketed traveler. Often, cops ask me to show them ID anywhere in the station. One the other hand, panhandlers and solicitors flood the station. I stand around, not allowed to sit down. Sometimes cops tell me to leave the station and come back when my train arrives. This despite solicitors and panhandlers begging, smoking, taking sponge baths in the men’s room, sleeping, etc.
When progressive leftists first talk about “reimagining police”, many thought they were planning to get rid of police altogether and replace them with social workers. It turns out that they just wanted to replace good cops with bad cops, ones that would incriminate law-biding citizens and never bother criminals. Police recruitment and training has been reflected on this. So when you hear talk of police having “their hand tied” on matters, you know it’s not the full story.
I have noticed this in their actions, the way I hear them talk to people, the way they help out criminals and allow them to commit their crimes. I have even seen police shoplift themselves. This is not like the police of twenty years ago.
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