Why giving this much power away without oversight is bad.
Watch this, and then understand that part of why these cops act like this is the sense that they are becoming THE power, and are not beholden to it. This kind of thing is what we’ll see more and more of as the rights of citizens are taken away and the oversight mechanisms taken down and we get more and more very poorly trained yet quite powerful in their sphere people dealing with the public. It’s inevitable and has been shown time and time and time again in history.
I’m not saying that this was a political attack by the way, nor am I saying that this kind of thing doesn’t happen quite a bit, it does (sadly), I’m saying that this kind of abuse will become more commonplace if these wild changes to our security procedures continue to be farmed out to private corporations who have NO motive to hire professionals who are well trained and have civilian oversight. And even then, these cops are pretty well trained people in general, yet look what they do. It’s nuts to think that your average McDonalds hiring reject isn’t going to start doing this kind of stuff, just silly…..
Link to the video, (it’s got a coupla REALLY bad moments, be warned!).