This isn’t community outreach, though. Community outreach would be a series of, say, town hall meetings where the police LISTEN to the people they are paid to serve and protect about why those people don’t trust them, then take concrete actions to reform those things. This ain’t that, and people aren’t stupid enough…

The middle would be them doing ACTUAL community outreach. Go out into the communities and talk about why they are mistrusted, and then take concrete steps to fix it. Letting some kids play video games isn’t going to change a damn thing. It’s just more copaganda and PR, like the videos of the cops playing basketball or…

I mean, give any large enough group of people guns, and almost absolute immunity from prosecution, even when they murder someone, and abuse of power and corruption become inevitable. It’s even easier when those things are given to an already historically racist, oppressive institution like the police.

They don’t have to be. But they are. And they are fighting any efforts ar reform tooth and nail.

Yes. If you choose to join an oppressive, racist institution, people will judge you for it. Is this news to you? We also judge Nazi and white supremacists for their choices.

That using videogames to lure kids into their transparent PR tactic is a bad look for the police? Because one thing that we should all be able to agree on is that adults luring kids into a van with the promise of videogames is sorta weird and creepy.

Also, they are doing this in the place of actual community outreach…

Seems to work for the police. We can also say “I feared for my life!” and in the case of a home invasion, that claim would be a lot more credible than, say, killing an unarmed man for selling loose cigarettes, or shooting a man who is telling you he has a legal gun in the car and is reaching for the license that YOU…

Eventually call the police so I have a police report when I file my insurance claim. What I don’t expect them to do is to prevent the robbery from happening, or do a damn thing about it after they take my report. 

In your made up scenario, there is NO way the police arrive before the robber is long gone, the person you are replying to is dead, or both. Average response time is like 45 mintues. Worse if you are in a majority non-white area. So, no, the cops wouldn’t make a lick of difference in your dumb made up scenario. And is…

If they want to stop being treated like they are evil, they should consider acting less evil. On an institutional level.

This won’t change anything either. Nothing will until police change how they...police. The problem isn’t lack of contact between police and public, the problem is HOW POLICE ACT WHEN THAT CONTACT HAPPENS. People don’t trust police because police keep fucking shooting them. A video game truck to secretly hoover up…

This isn’t community outreach though, it’s PR. It’s like those videos of cops dancing or playing basketball. It’s marketing.

And if he does call the cops...they will show up an hour or two later, smile and nod and fill in a report which they will promptly do absolutely nothing about. Calling the police doesn’t help stop crimes in most cases, it’s just required to file an insurance claim.

No it isn’t, it’s just the longer way of saying “if you work for a rotten institution, you will also become rotten” which ACAB says in much fewer words.

LOL. Looks like you can dish it out, but can’t handle it when others throw your aggression back in your face. Cop maybe?

Yup. Every last one of them. If they aren’t actively doing bad things, they are providing cover for those who are.

Ok, only MOST cops are bad, and the rest are too cowardly to do anything about the bad ones, and thus, let them get away with literal murder, while the union and leadership would rather attack the people who criticize the police rather than fix the issues being criticized. Is that nuanced enough for you? It’s a lot…

Scratch a bootlicker, and you’ll almost always find a racist under the surface.

What if you are being investigated or arrested (or murdered) and you didn’t do anything? Was George Floyd harassed when he was murdered over nothing? What about Tamir Rice? You are a bad apologist for police violence. The police union needs to replace you with someone...smarter.

You clearly do give a fuck, otherwise you wouldn’t be here getting ratioed and lecturing us on what we do and don’t know while deep throating a boot.