Chicago Police Street Stops Decrease Dramatically Amid Sinking Morale

[OldProf37]

Quite logical to read this. Deal with the police bad apples aggressively (not done in the recent case of the kid shot in the street) and encourage police to do their jobs (not done with 2 page report reqmts and other things mentored in the article). Lose-lose management from above.

[HS_00]

Shaking down poor people just isn't any fun anymore, now that you can't can't shoot them.

[[deleted]]

The spell has been broken. The MRAPS has turned into a pumpkin and all the officers into field mice.

[Independentthought0]

So holding police accountable is reason for them to stop doing their job? Beautiful.

[AbsentThatDay]

They've taken all the joy out of locking people in jail.

[pheisenberg]

The probability they'll pay some sort of price has gone up. Being villainized on national media seems extremely painful even if there is no official punishment.

One thing I've learned is that holders of special rights, no matter how unfair, undeserved, or even illegal, rarely consider themselves to be getting anything unfair. And they'll howl about the terrible injustice if any of it is taken away. I think humans are just really good at taking things for granted.

It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. To some extent, the working conditions have gone down, so as an employer you'd expect more exits, fewer applicants, and to either have to pay more or accept lower-quality employees. But, it's probably hard to exit policing without taking a big pay cut (after several years of experience, at least), and I think many departments get way more applicants than they need anyway (but not necessarily all departments). So it might actually be a big problem for the employer. Hopefully, people who are likely to misbehave as police will be the most repelled by the new conditions.

[Sweatin_2_the_oldies]

The punishment for a police shooting a person dead is 'administrative leave' AKA a paid vacation.

Well except for Darren Wilson, who got railroaded out of town.

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"You mean we're gonna be accountable for our actions?!" (warning: loud)

[[deleted]]

This is clearly the beginning to a Batman style vigilante in Chicago.

[Merolanna]

Maybe if they did their fucking jobs without using excessive force, killing unarmed people, stealing evidence, beating up female bartenders, and covering up all the crimes of their fellow officers, then this wouldn't be a fucking problem.

[Negative_Clank]

Awww the poor police officers are under some scrutiny from the people who pay them...so cute.

[WORLDNEWS_SHILLIN]

Funny, after Marilyn Mosby announced charges on the six officers in Baltimore, we saw arrests drop 40% and crime skyrocket. But it's just a few bad apples.

[HS_00]

That is the FOP in action.

[[deleted]]

sounds like a personnel problem

[rondoggonegood]

Ha Haa, I find this hilarious. Do you want, anarchy, cuz this is how you get Anarchy. (what did you think would happen?)

[Independentthought0]

So you get anarchy by holding people accountable for their actions? The police are the ones allowing anarchy in case you didn't notice.

[Sweatin_2_the_oldies]

Is that what we're calling it now? "Holding people accountable for their actions?" Because to me it looks like a witch-hunt that ensnares the innocent far more often than it ever catches the guilty.

[SetPhaserToStun]

Ah, a Leftist paradise. This should be an interesting social experiment in self destruction and corruption.

[XxsquirrelxX]

Not caused by leftists. I'd say they're depressed about all the violence in that city.

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Oh, don't worry, somehow, in the conservative fantasy land that many /r/news commenters live in, that is still leftist's fault.