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You really think a child is more likely to be abducted by police in NYC than anything else? What are you talking about?

ty6853 2y ago
Yes do you have children? I had the police called on me for taking my kid to the park last time i took a vacation out east to a big city. My kid is not the same 'race' as me ergo Karen called and they detained my child for an hour because that was suspicious (I filed FOIA and got bodycam and overheard the witch's complaint on the radio). Now imagine there was no parent at all...
AngryData 2y ago
Unless you live in a really bad ghetto where everybody has bars on their windows and people warn you to get off the streets before sundown, US police are the most likely to harm or take people without cause.
- scarface_74 2y ago
  No one in the “ghetto” just randomly takes people’s kids.
zo1 2y ago
Well they're not allowed to beat up and intimidate criminals, so what else are they supposed to do? We've turned police into armed Karens.
- ImPostingOnHN 2y ago
  They shouldn't be allowed to intimidate anybody or beat anybody up unless necessary. I shudder to think about such judgements being made based on a high school dropout's likely-malevolent guess at whether I'm a criminal.
crote 2y ago
Yes? There are plenty of stories of exactly this happening. People see a kid walking on their own, call the cops, who scoop up the kid and charge the parents with child endangerment because they were "abandoned". Get unlucky, and CPS will be involved. On the other hand, child kidnapping by strangers isn't really a common thing. The vast majority of kids going "missing" just did something like going over to play with the neighbour's kids without telling their parents, and the remainder is taken by their own family. Of the roughly 800.000 kids going missing each year, only 100 or so are genuinely abducted by a stranger. So no, a child being more likely to be abducted by a cop than by a stranger isn't as strange of a claim as it may initially seem.
- wkat4242 2y ago
  Lol so different. When i was young (<10) I'd often take the train to another city alone. To visit it, or to see relatives. It's not super common where I'm from but it's surely tolerated. I'd often see train conductors asking why I was alone and then going "ok, fine" though they would keep an eye on me usually.

Yes do you have children? I had the police called on me for taking my kid to the park last time i took a vacation out east to a big city. My kid is not the same 'race' as me ergo Karen called and they detained my child for an hour because that was suspicious (I filed FOIA and got bodycam and overheard the witch's complaint on the radio). Now imagine there was no parent at all...

AngryData 2y ago

Unless you live in a really bad ghetto where everybody has bars on their windows and people warn you to get off the streets before sundown, US police are the most likely to harm or take people without cause.

scarface_74 2y ago
No one in the “ghetto” just randomly takes people’s kids.

zo1 2y ago

Well they're not allowed to beat up and intimidate criminals, so what else are they supposed to do? We've turned police into armed Karens.

ImPostingOnHN 2y ago
They shouldn't be allowed to intimidate anybody or beat anybody up unless necessary. I shudder to think about such judgements being made based on a high school dropout's likely-malevolent guess at whether I'm a criminal.

crote 2y ago

Yes? There are plenty of stories of exactly this happening. People see a kid walking on their own, call the cops, who scoop up the kid and charge the parents with child endangerment because they were "abandoned". Get unlucky, and CPS will be involved. On the other hand, child kidnapping by strangers isn't really a common thing. The vast majority of kids going "missing" just did something like going over to play with the neighbour's kids without telling their parents, and the remainder is taken by their own family. Of the roughly 800.000 kids going missing each year, only 100 or so are genuinely abducted by a stranger. So no, a child being more likely to be abducted by a cop than by a stranger isn't as strange of a claim as it may initially seem.

wkat4242 2y ago
Lol so different. When i was young (<10) I'd often take the train to another city alone. To visit it, or to see relatives. It's not super common where I'm from but it's surely tolerated. I'd often see train conductors asking why I was alone and then going "ok, fine" though they would keep an eye on me usually.