(Ronald) Donat is among at least 29 recruits who died during basic training at law enforcement academies around the country in the last decade, an AP investigation found. Most died of exertion, dehydration, heat stroke and other conditions tied to intense exercise — often on the first day of training, like Donat. Others died several weeks in, sometimes after suffering trauma during boxing or use-of-force drills or collapsing during high-stakes timed runs on hot days.
Experts and police advocates were surprised by AP’s findings — based on an extensive review of lists of law enforcement deaths in every state, workplace safety records and news reports — and said many of the deaths were preventable. No federal agency or outside organization comprehensively tracks recruit deaths, unlike officers who die in the line of duty.
Black recruits represented nearly 60% of those who died, a striking disparity given that federal data show Black officers make up 12% of local police forces. Many carried sickle cell trait, a condition most prevalent among Black Americans that increases the risk of serious injury following extreme exertion.
It would be interesting to see how you would react if the police didn’t respond to a distress call you made.
Ew, copaganda
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All cops are bastards
Lmao, classic
If there are no police, then who is expected to enforce the laws? Unfortunately, a society on our scale does not function well without someone to do this rather distasteful job.
It also comes down to the laws themselves, and a lack of social supports. There should be a lot more money going into things like treatment and housing, to help prevent people from having to offend or having the desire to do so.
I disagree with your premise itself
You seem to be under the assumption that I’m a lib who accidentally took “defund the police” too far. I’m an anarchist who believes we shouldn’t have laws at all
Ultimately, you may get your wish if ORAGNE and his South African chimp continue to ravage the world along with Pooping.
Wow, that got weird
Do you disagree that Trump (ORAGNE), the chimp (Musk), and Poopy pants baby (Putin) are purporsefully fomenting war?
Because you choose to be a cop. Nobody chooses their sexual orientation … you just are.
It also increasingly sounds like you’re a cop yourself, trying to defend the indefensible.
Then if you find the cops bad, why not become one, despite your distaste for the profession? Someone needs to do the work, better a conscientious individual such as yourself.
Alternatively, create a better system of crime mitigation on a local level and lead by example. It would be better for society as a whole for people to stop being so complacent, and change things in their local community.
Like just about everything in the world the adage that change comes from within only works on a personal level, never at institutional level.
Besides, I’m over 65 so a bit late to move to the dark side.
But you can still be involved! Get on the community oversight boards, or volunteer.
“If you don’t like concentration camps, why not sign up to be a guard there!”
Seriously? One of those things is a choice, the other isn’t.
The two have in common the fact that a part of their identity (regardless of choice), is being attacked for no other reason than that. Demonizing people is demonizing people.
Are you going to demonize or mock someone who has chosen to be a cleaner or a fast food worker? Are you going to demonize or mock someone who believes in God, and is living peacefully with their neighbours?
I don’t call the cops. I call my friends. The last thing I want when I’m “in distress“ is for a bunch of stupid, authoritarian, armed thugs showing up to make everything 1000 times worse, possibly by murdering everyone around them just because they felt like it that day.
So, in essence, you believe in the Second Amendment, as you think that the government shouldn’t have a monopoly on force.
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What an interesting hallucination you just had. I didn’t say any of those things.
Your statement implied that you don’t support the state having a sole monopoly on force, as law enforcement is representative of that. Hence you support the people having the right to use any and all force necessary, as demonstrated by your statement about calling your friends. The Second Amendment gives anyone the right to bear arms, therefore implying they have the right to use said force when necessary. Therefore, your implied support.
You are the one who is hallucinating. You’re playing your role very well.
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It is odd how prophetic the first Matrix movie was, despite being a part of the machinery itself. Btw, it’s worth reading “Simulacra and Simulation” as the first movie is a decent film representation of the premises in the book. Warning, it’s a heavy read philosophically. Free your mind.
Lol, this is exactly what I would expect someone who unironically calls people “poopy pants baby” to post.
Sounds like a coping mechanism to me
This entire comment of yours is a hallucinatory coping mechanism, since you seem to think that your group of friends won’t revert to the same barbaric behaviour that you accuse all law enforcement officers of.