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Sorry. The best they can do is time off with full pay.

I’d challenge the idea that he’d be arrested. White privledge isn’t what it used to be if you’re female, a queer male, or identifiably not a MAGAt, but violent, straight, CIS white men harassing anyone in the outgroups in the name of dear leader often gets “a talking to” at best. I watched our local cops stand shoulder to shoulder with and backs turned to a crowd of armed boogaloos and patched outlaw MC bikers to stare down our much smaller BLM group. When one of their white boys decided to pop a shot into the ground to cause a panic, he was given a pass because “accidental discharge, his safety was off and he was only 16”. Meanwhile the 16yo punk girl who drew a small (A) symbol on the statehouse was a terrorist.

Cops or not, they go out looking to insight this kind of interaction. They drape themselves in body cams or bait it in front of uniformed police so that they can make themselves out to be the victim. So knowing that, either don’t take the bait, or if you do, make them find out what it’s actually like to be a “victim”.

Nah cops protect instigators all the time.

The higher standard of conduct here being not OPENLY ADMITTING to being agents provocateurs when infiltrating protests to be agent provocateurs.

Which I 100% guarantee is why they are pissed off with him. Cause he undermined their efforts to falsely arrest people now, and in the future, because protestors in that area are now gonna be on much higher alert for infiltrators intent on sowing discord and undermining the cause.

And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free.....

We try to hold them to higher standards of conduct, and they gripe and rage and abuse and kill us for it. They strongarm our courts and our laws making sure their murderous boys' club isn't interfered with.

The dude got a paid vacation as a reward for this stunt...

Paid vacation when his salary is well over 300k too

SOP. If you're at a protest and you see some guy in a fitted cap, underarmor, and steel toed boots, you better fucking believe your event is being surveilled and infiltrated.

Yeah but at least we can all sleep comfortably knowing this guy is not collecting as much OT as he regularly would while they determine he did nothing wrong.

They have to pay them enough to look down on average people.

The state wants more like him, so they pay for it. Let it sink in. The state encourages this type of behavior.

suspended with pay

= paid trip to disneyland. They really went hard on him didnt they. Meanwhile, the teenage girl he "provacateured" was arrested because of his actions.

Because theyre built to attract bullies?

https://ny.prelawland.com/post/719662253773832192/too-smart-for-the-job-jordan-v-the-city-of-new

Jordan had applied for a job as a police officer in the city of New London, Connecticut. However, he was denied an interview because he scored too high on a written examination.

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The city had introduced this policy because they felt that those that scored high on this examination were more likely to leave a police officer position sooner. To reduce costs associated with job turnover, training, and hiring, the city created this upper cut-off score. Jordan had scored a 33, which meant he was overqualified for the position.[2] As a result, Jordan argued that this policy was a form of discrimination based on his intellect.

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The court found that even though there was no strong statistical correlation between high test scores and job dissatisfaction, it was sufficient that the city believed that there was such a correlation based on the material provided by the test maker.

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The court found that the policy had a rational basis that served the legitimate government purpose of reducing job turnover and associated hiring and training costs.

So quite literally:

Cops don't hire smart people because they think smart people probably wouldn't like the job.

AND

Cops are allowed to have internal policies that are found by the court to not actually be rational or backed by any actual empirical data, they simply have to claim that they thought they were rational, and this essentially makes them legally 'rational'.

This is essentially a legal carve out for corruption and abuse of power, that is routinely exploited by police departments, to hire outside contractors and consultants to come up with dubious and nonsensical policies and training and such for them... there functionally is no mechanism for scrutinizing this, unless they're just literally doing financial fraud or money laundering.

Like half the country still uses polygraphs, even though there is an entire body of scientific knowledge that shows them to be approximately as legitimate and effectacious as chiropracty.

See also all the spying devices and malware they use, that they certainly do not technically understand, and routinely employ and very often either don't even bother to legally justify, and very often make dubious legal arguments as to their validity.

Cops extremely literally exist in an extremely entitled and defferential legal status than every one else, our legal system is built upon deepthroating the boot.

Because that was always the point.

Blind loyalty to the institution and aptitude for unhinged violence are the only qualifiers.

Because they do higher the dumbest fucks.

Smart people tend to realize corruption is bad.

This is the type of stuff a Union can get you. The Police Unions in the US are the single greatest advertising for unions and collective bargaining on the planet. Everything you can think of to complain about the double standard with police, comes back to union negotiated requirements.

The reasoning behind the whole suspension with pay stuff is essentially to not punish officers who are falsely accused while investigations are under way. Let that sink in for a minute as you think about everyone arrested for a crime and waiting months or years for trials...

Police officers are falsely accused of things all the time. There are also a ton that are correctly accused and end up receiving no punishment. The two are not mutually exclusive.

I think maybe they meant double standards, not higher standards.