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But... I mean.... AA says "this is the guy". Police says "OK", they go to person, who says "wait what?". Police had the footage right? I imagine that AA is not

• tehwebguy 4y ago
  Right, police are the perpetrators here. The problem is that they exist to protect wealth & property (AA, DFW shops), not people.
  • solveit 4y ago
    That is just inaccurate, the police don't even do a good job of that. The police, like every other bureaucracy with unchecked power, exists to perpetuate itself and enrich its members. This is not specific to the police except insofar as the police are exceptionally powerful and unchecked, and it is less a conspiracy of the powerful and more a typical dysfunction of government taken to an atypical extreme.
• _delirium 4y ago
  > Yeah, maybe it's annoying, but so what? Everyone has to do annoying shit for work. Have you ever interacted with American cops? They are on average completely useless, either unwilling or unable to follow their job description. Some of it isn't even any individual officer's fault (training is a joke, no performance standards, dysfunctional culture). But the end result is that they don't make up a high-quality set of civil servants, even by the not-very-high standards of American civil servants.
  • rtpg 4y ago
    Would be good for things to be better!