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Eric
Eric
10 years ago

Love it Jack! Not all police are evil. But they all are paid to enforce punishment for victimless crimes, so their moral standards are up for purchase. We all need to keep an eye out to keep their system in check.

Mike E
Mike E
10 years ago

The problem with holding bad cops accountable is that if we let people do that, they might start thinking that they can hold politicians accountable. Can’t have that!

Frank Brackin
Frank Brackin
10 years ago

Hi Jack, I was a sworn LE for 25+ years both with a Sheriff’s Dept and City PD and worked with many a jerk like the guy in the article you linked to and his clique pals too. I stepped in many a time to put guys like that back in-line whether it be excessive force, being an over zealous dick, or whatever. After a while that kind of stuff stopped happening around me because I wouldn’t put up with it and I didn’t care I wasn’t there to be liked I was there to do a job for the folks that paid my salary like the guy who was videoing. I probably would have taking a totally opposite approach thanked him for having our backs by filming it for us. Please keep pointing out this stuff out – it keeps us humble and honest!

Steven Fletcher
10 years ago

When you let police get away with ‘kinda being a dick’ they will, over time, become the real thing. There is a reason why most of the world fears the police as much or more than the criminals.

We are too often shown that our police are becoming third-world thugs.

(The New) Mike Cornwell

This is actually quite true. All you have to do is look at Brazil for that one. Up-and-coming nation, tons of businesses and rich moving there, and they have a police so armied out its insane.

Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien
10 years ago

Agreed Jack….this videographer is out of the way and is polite/cooperative with officers on scene. Unlike many YouTube videos out there, this person is not up on the officers sticking a camera in their faces. Unfortunately, behavior like this turns a normally-supportive citizen against the police in their area due to continued abuses or perceived abuses.

nick
nick
10 years ago

I am just shocked that you wasted that much time talking about this BS, especially when the show has been all about switching this shit off and getting down to work. BTW, the show has just been kicking ass lately, keep it up brother.

(The New) Mike Cornwell

Couldn’t agree more. The more you dig into common police training the more it kinda makes sense. In a lot of cases they’ve been alienated away from the populace and have had the “fear of death” beaten into them. It is not uncommon in the slightest for a police officer to “go through the motions” in their head of how they’re going to take you down, etc just for walking up to them. (I’ve heard this from numerous cops from alllll locations).

I’ve also seen so many people become jaded from having to deal first hand with these issues day in and day out.

Mike
Mike
10 years ago

Odd, I’ve never considered Jack to be a “Cop Hater” rather, most of the time I’ve considered him to be on the “Cop Apologist” side. Though in more recent shows I think He has made his stance more clear when speaking about the scumbag-cops and those Cops, whom turn a blind-eye, to those criminal-cops.

InBox485
InBox485
10 years ago

My experience is that every cop I’ve known in person (which is not to include the couple interactions with cops that were flat out illegal – gee seems like everybody has a couple of those somehow…) has been a good person who knew there were issues with other cops but could only do so much before they could do nothing. That contrasted with every single vocal cop I’ve interacted with online has been an ultra thin skinned sniveling little pansy to the point it has just been painful to listen to them pull their blue version of the race card at even the slightest non 100% ass kiss comment regarding anything remotely connected to their job. I won’t even engage them anymore. Kind of makes me think that a lot of vocal online cops are some combination of the basement dwellers of the industry or the corrupt cops themselves with dirty consciences.

Nick
Nick
10 years ago

Being called out directly, not only here but on the show actually made me laugh. I was only jabbing you a little. When I have to scroll the page to read your original posting I think its a bit much. My head has been way out of my arse for a long time. I fully support what the citizen did, and have my phone set up best I can to click it on immediately to do the same. I am from Chicago, so I might be a bit jaded, but as long as we have employed other human beings to “police” human beings, they have been cracking skulls. It scares me when the local forest preserve officer’s cruiser is outfitted like a battle wagon. By us, all the local municipalities have removed, “to serve and protect” from their vehicles. The training and the superiors are the problem. The demise of our police force is another cancer on our society. Chicago paid out so ungodly amount last year for lawsuits awarding citizens for being abused by officers. I think it was over $200million. I say its no different then the teacher’s unions. IF you want to act as a collective you will be judged as a collective. I have never met one teacher that is a bad teacher, I have never met one cop that is a bad cop, but collectively both institutions are failures. So asking the one good cop to hold his comrades accountable, is like asking the one good teacher to storm into the teacher’s lounge and demanding the other teachers do their job. Unions and bureaucrats will go to the ends of the earth to protect one bad cop.
So like so many times, the digital comment does not come across as intended. I agree with you and the citizen who filmed this. I was just nudging you in the ribs and saying lets move on.

Ragnar Danneskjold
Ragnar Danneskjold
10 years ago

Jack I think you are being called anti-cop because of misread perceptions. Something I have noticed when you talk about these stories is that you seem to spend the vast majority of your time and words listing the negative things about police, often getting very angry with shouting and so forth, and then tagging on a small amount of lip service to the good cops and positive things about police.

To take your example down another path, say I were to rant about illegals being criminals, gang members, parasites on our society for 20 minutes, and then at the very end calm down and say “but of course not all immigrants are like that” and that be the only time I even tried to mention the “other side” if you will. It would certainly be understandable if people assumed that I was anti-immigrant or didn’t *really* believe that some immigrants are good. It would be the appearance of just giving lip service. That’s just how people tend to perceive things. Everything I said may be factually true. The thing I said about illegal immigrants being criminal may be true as well as what I said about not all being bad. But when one devotes 95% of their time to one side of an issue, and 5% of the time saying “oh yeah, here’s the flip side too” it becomes apparent where their feelings really lie.

I think that’s what you’re running into with your discussions about police. I do not think you’re anti cop. I have never been given a reason to believe you have lied on your program or mislead anyone in your audience intentionally. So when you say “I’m not anti cop” I believe you. And you have defended police on a few occasions as well, such as the officer who broke the window of the driver who would not sign the citation. I’m simply stating that whatever your thoughts, beliefs, or intentions on the matter are, you do seem to devote the vast majority of your time listing the failures of police, and almost no time even mentioning that not all, or even most police are like that. It gives a certain saturation bias to the whole topic. Just as how the mainstream media can decide to focus on telling stories about negative incidents with CHL holders over and over and thus give the impression that most CHL holders are irresponsible, even when actual negative incidents are actually very very rare. One can give an impression of something just by how much time one focuses on it and make it seem more common than it really is. I think this may be what is happening when you talk about police.

I’m not suggesting you do anything different. You’ve gotten this far running your show your way and it would be improper for anyone to think they have the right to tell you to change something in your own program, especially if that change would be counter to your natural thoughts. I just wanted to point out the impression to do tend to give. You focus A LOT on negative things with police and almost (not entirely, but almost) not at all on anything positive, even though in real life nearly all cops are actually doing the right thing. You also bring up how good cops need to speak up. Maybe a lot are? Maybe they do speak up and we’re just not hearing about it because they are actually stopping an issue before it becomes and issue. Just like it’s impossible to tell how many crimes are stopped and not reported by CHL holders for the very reason that they were stopped and thus not reported. We don’t know how many time good officers are indeed speaking up for the very reason that when and if they do, we’re not going to see a news story or YouTube video about a non-existent incident.

Just some observations. Sorry if I pissed you off.

John Clark
John Clark
10 years ago

Hi Jack. I appreciate your candor and message that you share with the world and I have listened weekly or more since around episode 270 or so. I live my life to where my dealings with uniformed officers is brief and to the point then off we go our separate ways and thats what is comfortable to me. I don’t go out of my way to provoke uniformed officers. Thats just me. There are some deep psychological issues I see on both sides of the so called “fence” that I’ve noticed in history, somewhat recently, that leads me to question the mental health of certain small groups of unorganized individuals on this issue. Then another group of organized well moneyed groups with ‘inc.’ after their names that is exploiting the dogshit out of those small groups of individuals, my go-to-knee-jerk borderline tourettes phrase is ‘stupid people’, isn’t helping either by clouding our collective unconscious with taint and in turn we pay a higher psychic price. But anyways, for some that falls into the category of entertainment and I do recognize the value of sensationalism in the perpetration of the ‘great distraction’. I choose to turn to podcasts such as yours, technology, music, and appreciating the universe as it presents itself. Anyways I’ve gotten off track. We grew cale, green beans and blueberries this year and they turned out abundant and delicious. Abbodanza. Be well.

LibertyBelle
LibertyBelle
10 years ago

Jack, if that makes you a cop hater, I would hate to think what it would make my family… and both my husband and my oldest son are both LEOS. Seems like every time we turn around, there is another badge wearer that is pushing the limits, if not outright violating, someone’s rights. And our small community is no exception. There are five officers right now that DH and DS have warned female family members/friends not to trust for even a second, especially if we were to come across them while driving alone on a county road. And that’s scary as our little town (pop just under 20K) is the largest within a 50 mile radius and most of what we have around here are back roads. We agree totally that if an officer doesn’t stand up for what’s right, he is not not much of an officer. And sometimes doing what’s right can cost you your job, especially if what you uncover casts a negative light on the department’s relationship with the state (recently BTDT). But you just can’t put a price on honor and integrity.

BTW, due all of our preps and the extra “just in case” funds that had been put aside over the past few years, we don’t need to go shopping and we have enough to pay all necessary bills such as house pmt, utilities, ins, etc. (no credit card debt!) for several months easily, or a year or more if we’re careful.